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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Still from Op de Beeck's Staging Silence (2009), courtesy of the artist

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  • 10 to 5:30
    Closed December 25

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  • Independence Ave. at 7th St., SW
    Washington, DC

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  • L'Enfant Plaza Station
    (Use Maryland Ave. exit)

 

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    Black Box: Ali Kazma

    Now - April 30, 2012
    Lower Level

    The Black Box theater showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary artists who use film or video as their creative medium. Films or videos run continuously.

    Ali Kazma's (Turkish, b. 1971) most ambitious project to date is O.K. (2010), a seven-channel study of clerks as they stamp hundreds of documents at breakneck speed. The syncopation of the sounds created by their gestures is paralleled by the artist's quick-cut editing. This presentation is Kazma’s U.S. museum debut.



    Directions: Empire³

    Now - February 26, 2012
    Level 3

    On May 1, 1931, at a dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C., President Herbert Hoover hit a button that symbolically turned on the lights of the Empire State Building in New York City. The nation’s capital again illuminates this iconic structure with the presentation of the following three time-based media responses to the landmark by Andy Warhol, Douglas Gordon, and Wolfgang Staehle.

    • On July 25, 1964, Warhol positioned himself on the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building to film the Empire State Building overnight, resulting in an inventive type of "still" movie, which he titled Empire.
    • In 1997, in Berlin, Gordon stealthily videotaped two hours of Warhol’s film at a public exhibition, later releasing it as Bootleg (Empire).
    • In 1999, Staehle brought new technology to the subject streaming Empire 24/7 via live webcast.


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    Lower Level

    The Black Box theater showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary artists who use film or video as their creative medium. Exhibtion Dates: Exhibition Title description.



    Barbara Kruger: BELIEF + DOUBT

    2015
    Lower Level

    This major site-specific installation by Barbara Kruger (American, b. Newark, NJ, 1945) wraps the entire lower-level lobby in large-scale words and phrases printed in white against fields of black and red. Covering the walls, floor, and escalators, this immersive piece explores themes of democracy, doubt, and belief through the artist’s own words. The resulting environment is a visually spectacular hall of voices that envelops visitors as they descend from the ground level. Reading becomes a whole-body experience, with phrases revealing themselves only as the spectator circulates through the space.