Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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The Hirshhorn Museum presents an exhibition featuring 39 important artworks from the late 1960s and early 1970s that were recently acquired from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, one of the world's foremost collectors of American and European contemporary art. Composed of works by an international roster of 16 artists, this acquisition substantially strengthens the Hirshhorn's holdings of art from this period. "The Panza Collection" is organized by associate curator Evelyn Hankins, who has worked closely with Dr. Panza on the design and installation of the exhibition, which is on view Oct. 23 through Jan. 11. Presented concurrently in several galleries adjacent to the exhibition is the second installment of the museum's ongoing series "Ways of Seeing," which was curated by Dr. Panza and his wife, Giovanna.

"The Panza Collection" features paintings, sculptures, installation art, wall drawings and a film that, as a group, demonstrate the critical premises driving international Conceptual, Light and Space, Minimal, and Environmental art. At the time these works were created, many artists had begun to reject traditional media and aesthetic concerns. Instead, they redefined art in a much broader manner, from conceptual works that favored ideas over the creation of unique objects to large-scale environments that challenged prevalent notions about the boundaries between an artwork and the surrounding architecture.