Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change

‘Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change,’ a major exhibition by one of the leading postwar American artists, runs April 7–Sept. 5, 2016, at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It is the first museum survey devoted to Irwin’s work from the pivotal decade of the 1960s, as well as the first U.S. museum survey outside his native California since 1977. The Hirshhorn is the exhibition’s only venue. A pioneer of California Light and Space art, Irwin (b. 1928) is also a leading figure in broader movements away from discrete art objects in traditional media and toward an understanding of art as a perceptual experience. Read more. Click here for our interview with the artist.

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Untitled (1959–60), Robert Irwin. © 2016 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo © 2007 Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Bed of Roses (1962), Robert Irwin. © 2016 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Untitled (1963–65), Robert Irwin. © 2016 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Cathy Carver

Untitled (1970–71), Robert Irwin. © 2016 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Cathy Carver

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