That makes it sound something like a museum, but if it ever had any old crustiness it has been knocked off and the programme is moving with the times.

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Museum officials say the institute is on a sound financial footing.

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His latest project, titled "Song 1" a massive creation of video projection and sound has been transforming the cylindrical exterior of the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, from sunset to midnight for eight weeks (it closes May 13).

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