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After seven years, Hirshhorn Museum opens Hiroshi Sugimoto-designed sculpture garden
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The garden’s opening follows years of controversy. Sugimoto’s early vision for the space was met with criticism. In 2021, Charles A. Birnbaum (the president and chief executive of the Cultural Landscape Foundation) said that the stacked-stone plan “fundamentally disrupts” the garden’s Modernist design and the “artistic intent” of Bunshaft and the landscape architect Lester Collins.