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Where We Meet brings works from the collections of the Howard University Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection into conversation. The selections reflect a continuum of artistic dialogue between two storied Washington, DC, institutions that has endured for almost a century. Featured in this installation are works by artists acquired early in the life of both institutions, including Howard University professor James Lesesne Wells, as well as works by seminal artists from each collection including Elizabeth Catlett and Horace Pippin. This presentation reflects the overlapping histories of

Sugar-lift aquatint with carborundum relief and extensive hand-painting on five panels of 350 gsm Moulin du Gué handmade paper overall: 96 in x 240 in; 243.84 cm x 609.6 cm Gift of Luther W. Brady, Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Belger, Marion Oates Charles, Dr. and Mrs. Brian D. Dailey, Mr. Léonard Gianadda, Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Mr. and Mrs. Marc E. Leland, Caroline Macomber, B. Thomas Mansbach, Dr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Paul, Gifford and Joann Phillips, and Trish and George Vradenburg in memory of Laughlin Phillips, 2010

It’s The Phillips Collection’s 100th birthday! On November 12, 1921, the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, commemorating founder Duncan Phillips’s father and brother, opened as one room and a collection of 237 paintings. Now, 100 years later, the museum has expanded to include the Goh Annex and Sant Building, Center for Art and Knowledge, and Phillips@THEARC, and the growing collection features nearly 6,000 works of art from all around the world. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for our next 100 years! Join us for a birthday bash including: access to our incredible fall exhibitions featuring

This exhibition will tell the story of the lifelong friendship between three towering figures in American art: Milton Avery (1885–1965), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), and Mark Rothko (1903–1970), and highlight the inspiration they derived from summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann. Through approximately 75 paintings, drawings, prints, and watercolors from the 1920s to the 1960s, this exhibition will reflect for the first time the artistic exchange between these three artists, the experiences they shared, and the support that they provided to each other. Many works in this exhibition

Eighteen-year-old South Korean pianist Jun Hwi Cho is winner of the Seventh New York International Piano Competition, where he performed works by Beethoven, Schubert, Scriabin, and Messiaen before sealing victory in the final round with a stunning performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18.

Throughout much of The Phillips Collection’s 100-year history, this museum and Black art spaces and artists in Washington, DC, were not in conversation with one another. In this lecture, Elizabeth Alexander will discuss the dynamism of DC’s Black art spaces and artists over the past 100 years, and how we might more deeply engage with the past, present, and future. Dr. Elizabeth Alexander—poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate—is president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of arts, culture, and the humanities. She has held distinguished

“My idea is not to show all our treasures at once but in ever-varied and purposeful exhibitions, arranging the Collection in units which are frequently changed so that the walls of the various rooms reveal interesting transformations.”-Duncan Phillips, 1926 The Phillips Collection, from its inception, has focused on creating what founder Duncan Phillips called “units”: groups of works of art that represent key aspects of an artist’s vision or spirit. Leaders in championing the independent-minded artist, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips gave many their first museum exhibitions and acquisitions