The Richard and Ellen Sandor Lecture on Art and Nature featuring Melissa Chiu, Director of The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Join us for an enlightening keynote lecture by Dr. Melissa Chiu, Director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in celebration of our 2024 Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: A Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe. One of the world’s experts in Asian contemporary art, Dr. Chiu commissioned the groundbreaking exhibition Yayoi Kusama | Infinity Mirrors at the Hirshhorn Museum during 2017. This acclaimed exhibition toured across the country to five other museums and acquisitions by Kusama remain part of the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.

Go here to read Dr. Melissa Chiu’s full biography.

The event will include a plated lunch.

Space is limited. Tickets $125