Hiroshi Sugimoto's Controversial Revitalization of Hirshhorn's Sculpture Garden Gets the Go-Ahead

Speaking with Artnet News, Charles A. Birnbaum, CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, decried the decision of the CFA, whose ranks were recently purged by the Biden administration, contending that “the Hirshhorn benefitted at the Commission of Fine Arts today from the commissioners’ lack of experience, the commissioners’ lack of understanding of commission policies and procedures, and because for the first time in some 20 years, not one of the commissioners is a landscape architect.”