After Hours Powers

Contemporary art, hula hoops, a dancing pig and brass band, oh, it’s just another Hirshhorn After Hours. Is it the best art event in D.C.?

By Alannah Wells

Courtyard fountain at Hirshhorn After Hours. Photograph by Alannah Wells

“This is great! It totally doesn’t feel like D.C.!,” seemed to be the reoccurring sentiment as I meandered through the oh-so-young-and-hip crowd at the Hirshhorn after Hours. But this is Washington and what this event routinely proves – besides the fact that it’s okay to have a DJ and light show in an art museum – is that the Washington arts scene is thrusting itself forth, straight into the iCals of the hip, young and fresh faced.