Eyes on a Changing Land

Dust Bowl Lives in Show

• By Casey Hynes
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 16, 2009, Midnight

Standing in front of the enormous Dust Bowl scene that artist John Gerrard created for his new show, “Directions,” at the Hirshhorn Museum, one might almost get the sense of being inside a video game. A dust storm looms from the floor to the ceiling, moving steadily forward in a billowing, constant rhythm.