Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Talks

Lecture
Meet the Artist: Hans Op de Beeck
Wednesday, March 16, 7:00pmBelgian artist Hans Op de Beeck explores problematic relationships with time, space, and each other through a wide variety of artistic media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, photography, video, animated film, and short story writing. He talks about his recent work, including his video Staging Silence, 2009, on view in Black Box through March 27.

Exhibition Opening
Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977
February 24 -- May 15Though long celebrated throughout Europe, the influential postwar painter Blinky Palermo (German, b. Leipzig, 1943; d. Maldives, 1977) has mostly escaped America's notice. This is the first comprehensive survey of his work in the United States.

DJ Spooky with Selections from the Washington Project for the Arts 2011 Experimental Media Series
Thursday, March 31, 8:00pmFilmmaker, musician, and writer Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) is this year's judge for the WPA's international competition. He shows his favorites and tells you how he selected them from hundreds of submissions.

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