Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This fall, the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden will reopen to the public after the largest revitalization project in the museum’s fifty-year history. Designed by artist and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, the newly reimagined Sculpture Garden will fit the expanding creative ambitions of modern and contemporary artists while supporting the Hirshhorn’s beloved Modernist collections.
Join curator Anne Reeve, sculpture conservator Anouk Verbeek, and horticulturalist Sarah Tietbohl for a behind-the-scenes peek at this project. Panelists will offer unique perspectives on the history of the Hirshhorn’s collection, conservation, and outdoor public art in conversation with the environment.
ASL interpretation and live captioning will be available both in person and on the livestream video.
This fall, the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden will reopen to the public after the largest revitalization project in the museum’s fifty-year history. Designed by artist and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, the newly reimagined Sculpture Garden will fit the expanding creative ambitions of modern and contemporary artists while supporting the Hirshhorn’s beloved Modernist collections.
Join curator Anne Reeve, sculpture conservator Anouk Verbeek, and horticulturalist Sarah Tietbohl for a behind-the-scenes peek at this project. Panelists will offer unique perspectives on the history of the Hirshhorn’s collection, conservation, and outdoor public art in conversation with the environment.
ASL interpretation and live captioning will be available both in person and on the livestream video.





![The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’
In May 2022, Loraine Goetsch acquired the Pakistani “jingle truck” created for the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Silk Road program by Haider Ali and Jamil Uddin. For most of the past twenty years, the truck has been exposed to the elements at a Smithsonian storage facility in Maryland. Thanks to Goetsch, the truck will have a new life in New Jersey.
Video produced by Yijo Shen
Music: “Bhawaiya” - Bengali Farmers’ Work Song by Mumtaz Ali Khan, Folk Music of Pakistan (Folkways Records, 1951)
[Catalog No. CFV11484; © Smithsonian Institution, 2022] The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mPXpesg1c_U/mqdefault.jpg)




