When: through May 14, 2017
It occurs to me that you really don't want to be an artist with a show at the Hirshhorn right now. Sure, there's a crowd here, but they're not here to see you. Who would go to the concrete doughnut and brave the insanity if they weren't going to see Kusama? Well, me obviously, but almost no one else.
Linn Meyers has a show up now, especially created for the Hirshhorn's 2nd floor, and I walked around to see it recently. Once I got past the crowds in the inner galleries, I had the place to myself. Which was great for me, but not so great (I assume) for Meyers. She's put these line drawings on the walls of the building; they struck me as looking like feathers or hair or fur. The time and work involved must have been enormous, but it's all to be painted over when the show closes.
And somehow, that makes it worse that the work is getting so little attention. If something's going to have such a short life (367 days), you'd like it to be really popular. I'm gong to hope that before Kusama showed up, lots of people saw this.
Verdict: Go see this work before it's gone forever. And not like those stores that run constant going out of business sales and never seem to close, but for real.
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