Sculptor and Corcoran College of Art & Design adjunct faculty Peter Bottger on Auguste Rodin’s “Walking Man.”

Painter, sculptor, and draftsman Yoshitomo Nara is best known for his Neo-Pop paintings featuring children and animals associated with Japanese popular culture. The appeal of his cute, though often menacing, characters masks underlying tones of helplessness, rage, and isolation.

Joyce Bedi, NMAH Senior Historian at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, on engineering in Alexander Calder’s work.

Moderated by Robert Rosen, former dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, artists and scholars—including artist Ori Gersht; anthropologist Joe Masco, University of Chicago and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and Kevin Rozario, Smith College—investigate the impetus and implications of society’s fascination with destructive spectacle.

This panel discussion with Yoko Ono and Raphael Montañez Ortiz, participants in the original 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium; artist Monica Bonvicini; and art historian Dario Gamboni will explore the ways in which artists have used destruction as a means of responding to cultural and social issues.

Artist and Corcoran adjunct faculty Mark Cameron Boyd on Ellsworth Kelly’s "Red, Yellow, Blue V"

Conservation fellow Steven O’Banion on the sculptures of Henry Moore.

Kim Schoenstadt’s work plays with the intersection of architecture, sculpture, color, line, history, culture, and concepts. Her “mash-up drawings” allow her to defy the laws of gravity while incorporating architecture into site-specific installations that engage audiences throughout the construction process. Last year she was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and began a research-based residency. The SARF program brings together Smithsonian scholars and distinguished visual...

Michel Banabila, sound composer for Gerco de Ruijter’s "CROPS," performs an ambient music set

Library of Congress curator of recorded sound Matthew Barton discusses "Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance"

Library of Congress Executive Director, National Audiovisual Center, Patrick Loughney, on Bruce Conner’s "Report" in "Over, Under, Next"

Curatorial intern Deirdre Smith discusses Sol LeWitt.

Hirshhorn conservation staff discuss challenges in the upkeep of outdoor sculpture.

Georgetown University Keyser Family Professor of Art History, Modern Art, Elizabeth Prelinger, on Damien Hirst in "Over, Under, Next."

Hirshhorn exhibits specialist Scott Larson discusses interpreting the installation artist’s intention in "Over, Under, Next."

Hirshhorn assistant curator Melissa Ho discusses Salvatore Scarpitta's "Snowshoe Sled" in "Over, Under, Next."

Hirshhorn assistant curator Mika Yoshitake discusses her new installation of permanent collection works on the second floor

WPFW 89.3 FM jazz host and Georgetown University adjunct professor Rusty Hassan on Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance

Robert Lehrman has been collecting art since 1979, focusing primarily on the "art of our time." His collection includes both American and international contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, Brice Marden, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Philip Guston, Ed Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, among others. In addition, he has assembled one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of the works of Joseph Cornell. In 2003, Lehrman-together with Walter...

Hirshhorn director of public programs and education Milena Kalinovska discusses Jeff Koons’s "Kiepenkerl" in the Sculpture Garden.

Conceiving of abstraction as a language with the potential to span the gulf between African-American and dominant modernisms, Jennie C. Jones makes her solo museum debut in a "Directions" exhibition that features an "acoustic intervention" in the gallery space. She discusses her work and the connections between avant-garde visual and musical practices with pianist Jason Moran, artistic advisor for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher...

Ann Hamilton’s large-scale multimedia installations, including the event of a thread, recently at the Park Avenue Armory, and "palimpsest," now on view in the Hirshhorn’s "Over, Under, Next," poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. Hamilton’s ephemeral environments create immersive experiences, often from a dense accumulation of mundane materials. A Distinguished University Professor of Art at the Ohio State University, Hamilton is also a member of...

Hirshhorn’s Gwynne Ryan discusses conservation issues surrounding Ann Hamilton’s "palimpsest" in "Over, Under, Next."

Dan Steinhilber discusses his work "Untitled" in "Over, Under, Next."

As seen in "History of Photography Remix," currently on view in "Out of the Ordinary," Kota Ezawa’s work addresses the conception of history as strings of images that have entered our collective consciousness. Using slide projections, animated video, lightboxes, collages, and prints, Ezawa reconsiders art history and popular culture. Migrating representations between mediums, Ezawa’s work questions whether information should be accepted at face value, opening it up to interpretation and...