October 27, 2021
June 5, 2025, 5-8:30 pm
Celebrate World Pride at Phillips after 5! Join us for a fabulous evening developed in partnership with Vagenesis, Empress Emeritus de Ardeur. See the exhibition Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings. Spotlight Talks will highlight artworks by LGBTQIA+ artists on view. Drag performance by Vagenesis, Empress Emeritus de Ardeur. The ever-talented multi-instrumentalist Baddie Brooks performs in the Music Room. Sign-up for a “Styled to the Nines” workshop with makeup artist, model, performer, and drag queen extraordinaire Citrine the Queen. Be inspired by live painting by artist and
July 8, 2016
February 3, 2018 - May 6, 2018
Ten Americans: After Paul Klee explores the seminal role of Swiss-born artist Paul Klee (1879–1940) in the development of mid-20th-century American art. The exhibition sheds new light on important figures in American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painting who adapted aspects of Klee’s art and ideology into their own artistic development. Featuring more than 60 works from collections in the US and Switzerland, the exhibition is the first to feature Klee in dialogue with William Baziotes, Gene Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Norman Lewis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock
November 30, 2022
Museum executive, eminent scholar in modern and contemporary art, and leading expert on artist Sam Gilliam chosen to lead the museum into its second century WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jonathan P. Binstock as its new Vradenburg Director and CEO. Dr. Binstock will begin his appointment on March 1, 2023, following eight years as the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) of the University of Rochester in New York. Binstock will succeed Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, who is stepping down after 15 years of
October 21, 2018, 4 pm
Pedja Mužijević makes his Phillips debut with works by Scarlatti, Antheil, Satie, Granados, Debussy, Joslin, and Schumann.
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The Phillips Collection is thrilled to have completed our successful Centennial Campaign, which raised critical funds for the museum’s endowment, capital needs, and special projects in conjunction with our Centennial in 2021. We are grateful to all those who contributed and celebrated the Centennial with us. The achievements of the campaign will continue to reverberate for years to come, and we look forward to another century of lasting impact.
September 27, 2014 - January 11, 2015
To establish the Dream of realities…to strive for the pursuit of the Intangible and meditate—in silence—to inscribe the mysterious Meaning.–Henry van de Velde, 1890 The fascination with the imagination, the dream, or the intangible, so eloquently defined by artist Henry van de Velde in 1890 as the goal of Neo-Impressionism, was shared by many of his colleagues. It was nurtured in large part by the interactions between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers since the mid-1880s. Paris, capital of the art world at the time, and Brussels, home to the influential avant-garde
