‘Visionary’ New Director Takes Over Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn

The Washington Post profiles Richard Koshalek, the newly installed director of Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum.

The article examines the ways in which the longtime head of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art earned a reputation as a visionary and a change agent, and how he plans to apply his skills to the Smithsonian’s respected and successful home for modern and contemporary art.

“Everything this institution does — everything from the press releases we write, to the brochures we do, to what we put out to the public, to what kind of education program we do — all have to be on a very high level of seriousness,” Mr. Koshalek told the newspaper.

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