Museum
Hirshhorn Museum
Independence Ave SW &, 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Concrete Brutalist ring holding modern and contemporary art amassed by one restless private collector.
This guide to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. centers on a small 1964 collage by artist Romare Bearden, The Prevalence of Ritual, Baptism, drawn from his memories of Southern Black life. It traces Bearden's shift from painting to cut-paper composition, and the pressure Black artists of the civil rights era faced to explain their communities to outsiders, pressure he refused. Joseph Hirshhorn, the museum's Latvian-born namesake, spent decades buying art almost compulsively on a fortune made in mining stocks.
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