Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Shortly after she took the role of director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Melissa Chiu was under fire for holding museum fundraisers in New York instead of Washington. Nearly three years since starting, she’s coming off her biggest success yet, a furiously popular exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors.” Chiu talks to Kojo about access to the arts and how politics are becoming an even bigger part of what artists are doing.
Guests
- Melissa Chiu Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Upcoming Exhibits At The Hirshhorn
The tree museum visitors place their wishes on for Yoko Ono's, "Wish Tree for Washington".
Museum visitors write notes and place them on Yoko Ono's, "Wish Tree For Washington".
Ai Wei Wei's "Trace" features portraits made of Lego bricks.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's, "The Five Steps of Life".
"The Children's Hospital (Extraordinary Pirouettes)" by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.
"The Children's Hospital (Extraordinary Pirouettes)" by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.
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