#smithsonian hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden

An artist has used our @hirshhorn‘s distinctive circular shape to create this colorful, 360-degree mural.  

Swiss artist Nicolas Party’s “sunrise, sunset” stretches around nearly 400 feet of one of the museum’s curved galleries. Each section has its own vibrant, colorful vignette of the sun rising and setting—the inevitable, daily mark of time that connects that past and the future of humanity.

See the site-specific work through Oct. 1. After that, the museum will paint over Party’s work to make way for the next exhibition, and it will become part of another inevitable cycle of beginnings and endings that govern the space around us.

Learn more about the artist’s inspiration and what it was like to paint in such an unusual space.