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Art Lenses: Perspectives, Stories, and Sources 

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Living Room
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Curatorial Vision with Renée Maurer

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Phillips after 5
Irene Rice Pereira, Transversion, 1946.

Techno Takeover

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Special Exhibition
Abstract artwork of various constellation like shapes and eyes

Miró and the United States

Collage of musicians featured in the 2025–26 Phillips Music Sunday Concert series. The image includes a diverse group of soloists and ensembles, captured in various performance and portrait settings.

Phillips Music

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Jeffrey Gibson's My heart beats for the one I love
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People & Community
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Meet Our New Curator of Modern Art

Education & Community Engagement, People & Community
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Meet Our Chief of Education and Responsive Learning

Education & Community Engagement
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An Evening for Educators: Out of Many, One Classroom

Director's Desk
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Four panels from Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series on view at the Kunsthal Kade

Collection on the Road

Exhibitions & Events
Dominoez artwork by Natalie Courtney

Dominoes Bring Us Together

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Shikeith, Visiting Hours, 2022

The Phillips Collects: Shikeith

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Supporting American Abstraction

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Jeffrey Gibson's My heart beats for the one I love

The Phillips Collects: Jeffrey Gibson

In the News

peter campus, blessingway (video still), 2024, Videograph, 6:37 minute loop, Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery. Text overlay reads "At 88, peter campus Swaps Youthful Ego for Late-Style Modesty, Emily Watlington, Art in America"
Rik Freeman, Wenceslau with text overlay that reads "Rik Freeman's Personal Touch, Kaila Philo, Washington City Paper"
Joan Miró, Chiffres et contellations amoureux d’un femme from the Constellations Series, 1959, 18 3/4 x 15 in., Book with 1 lithograph and 22 reproductions heightened with pochoir, Fundació Joan Miró © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2026 with text overlay that reads "Phillips Collection's Upcoming Miró Exhibit Celebrates the Power of International Exchange, Events DC, Washington Business Journal."
Vivian Browne, Bini Apron, 1973, Acrylic on canvas, 49 3/4 x 51 3/4 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Gift of Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian Browne, Los Angeles. Image courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York, 2024. © Vivian Browne; text overlay reads "Vivian Browne's Lessons in Flipping the Script, Grace Byron, Frieze"
Lyle Ashton Harris, The Watering Hole III (detail), 1996, The Museum of Modern Art; text overlay reads "Essex Hemphill's Love Knew No Bounds, Michael Londres, Aperture"
Vivian Browne, For You, 1974, Oil on canvas, 46 3/4 x 50 3/4 in., Courtesy of Adobe Krow Archives, Los Angeles, and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. © Vivian Browne; Text overlay reads 'She Didn't Want To Be Boxed In. So She Painted Out, Angelica Hankins, The Washington Post.'
A jambon-beurre sandwich on a baguette and a latte sit on a café table. Overlaid text reads: “The 5 Best Museum Cafés in D.C. – Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post.”
An image of Essex Hemphill speaking into a microphone on stage with text overlay that reads "A Living Archive: Curator Camille Brown and Photographer Clifford Prince King on Essex Hemphill's Legacy / Lia Latty / Black Is Magazine"
Installation image of an art gallery with text overlay that reads 'Essex Hemphill's poetic impact on the visual arts is celebrating in moving 'Take Care of Your Blessings' exhibition, Kyle Jackson, Queerty
Alphonse Mucha, “Zodiac,” 1896. Color lithograph. (Collection of the Mucha Trust) with text overlay that reads "The Turbulent Beauty of Art Nouveau is Still All Over Culture, Angelica Hankins, The Washington Post'
Man and woman looking at a red and orange painting with text overlay that reads 'Explore the Not-So-Hidden Gems from DC's The Phillips Collection, Robert Aubry Davis, WETA'
Photography of a blue sky and white clouds. A blue sea with three small boats. Text overlay reads "A Window into Joel Meyerowitz | The Phillips Collection, Fiona Perkocha, Musee Magazine'
Photo of a woman holding and pointing at a picture to a group of children. Text overlay reads 'Meet the Docents: How to Introduce 5th Graders to Complex Topics in Fine Art, Elliot Williams, WAMU'
Painting of a nude woman reclining on a bed, next to a window overlooking a river. Text overlay reads 'Everything Changed for Matisse After He Painted This Nude, Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post."
Person cleans a landscape painting with a cotton swab. Text overlay reads, 'Up Close with Paul Cezanne Review: News Perspectives on a Provencal Master, Mary Tompkins Lewis, The Wall Street Journal'
Installation image of Bonnard's Worlds. Text overlay reads, 'Pierre Bonnard's Dazzling World of Color at the Phillips Collection | Around Town Best Bets, Philippa Hughes, WETA PBS'
Installation image of drawings hung against a cream colored wall. Text overlay reads Bernardí Roig: el artista que decapitó a Goya, Borja Hermoso, El País
Drawing of a woman playing in the water with text overlay. Caption reads "'Interior Lives' at Phillips@THEARC Explores The Black Femme Experience During Women's Month" Andrew S. Jacobson The Washington Informer
Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, Capturing the Height of the Summer Leisure / Hesper Cane / Widewalls
Alone in a Room with Rothko. Adam Rathe. Town & Country
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Promo for Seeing Differently review in The Washington Post by Philip Kennicott

Centennial Commissions

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Victor Ekpuk

Nekisha Durrett

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