Michael Auping, curator of Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth, offers insights on the complexity of Kiefer's work and the artist's career-long investigation of the celestial and the terrestrial.

Join us for an evening with filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a central figure in the avant-garde art and cinema community in New York that began in the 1960s. This marks Mekas's return to the Hirshhorn-he was the first guest speaker at the film program in 1976.

Artangel co-director James Lingwood and Hirshhorn associate curator Anne Ellegood will examine the role of a specific place in artistic practice.

Join art historian Michael Fried for a discussion of the artist's work in the context of new "art" photography, which includes such artists as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Demand.

Emerging artist Hiraki Sawa's enchanting and whimsical videos are the equivalent of digital trompe-oeil-toy planes fly from room to room, household objects sprout legs, and miniature animals gallop across countertops.

Hiroshi Sugimoto and exhibition co-curator Kerry Brougher discuss the artist's creative process and vision.

Alison Saar Brochure from the exhibit "Directions"