The NBV will host an in-person tour of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's current exhibit:  Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960.

The Hirshhorn Museum is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture. To celebrate its 50th anniversary season, the Hirshhorn is showcasing art from its permanent collection in an exhibit meant to survey artwork made during a transformative period.  This period was characterized by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization, spotlighting the rush of art-historical movements and genres characterizing the arc of Modernism and the ascendancy of abstraction – notably through the work of artists interested in engaging the mind not just the eye.  

In addition, the exhibit will include contemporary work, demonstrating how revolutionary ideas and approaches during the last 100 years remain critical today.  

REGISTER AT: bit.ly/HirshhornTour

Participants are asked to drive or take the Metro (change at Metro Center to orange/grey/blue line to L'Enfant Plaza station, exiting at the Smithsonian Mall side of station, which should then be just a block south of the Hirshhorn Museum).  All should arrive just inside the Museum’s Independence Avenue entrance by 1:25 pm for our 1:30 pm start.  Docent Nancy Hirshbein has led NBV on various other virtual as well as in-person tours and is highly versed in the Museum’s artworks as well as contemporary art in general.