Hirshhorn Opens Dreamy Exhibition

Tomorrow, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will continue to prove its edge on contemporary art in Washington, opening the first of its two-part exhibition "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image.” The exhibit focuses on art’s ability to create new perspectives. Dreams, as a theme, pervade the first show, with ethereal works bringing visitors beyond the ordinary, from the new worlds opened by Chiho Aoshima’s fantastically nymphish paintings to the revelations found in Anthony McCall’s smoky installation You and I Horizontal, complete with its own light at the end of the tunnel. "The Cinema Effect" runs through May 11; the second part of the series, focusing on realism, opens on June 19 and runs through September 7.