Community Engagement Assistant Alani Nelson reflects on the land, its lost histories, and the journey toward recovery, using Let Them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces, Thief by Nicholas Galanin as a starting point.
The evening also honored individuals who exemplify art’s power to inspire, heal, and unite. WASHINGTON, DC— The Phillips Collection 2025 Annual Gala: Powered by Artists on May 9 celebrated the museum’s commitment to education, community engagement, cultural diplomacy, and the exploration of modern and contemporary art. This year’s theme, Powered by Artists, reflects the legacy of museum founder Duncan Phillips and his wife, Marjorie, whose vision placed artists and their work at the heart of the museum’s mission. More than 430 guests gathered for the Gala, including members of the diplomatic
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th century European artists with whom they engaged. This exhibition explores the rich, multifacted, and sustained connections and frictions around modernism in the work of artists such as Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott, Renee Cox, Wassily Kandinsky, Norman Lewis, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century WASHINGTON, DC—As the centerpiece of The Phillips Collection’s centennial celebrations, the museum presents the exhibition Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century. Building on Duncan Phillips’s founding principle of inspiring others to “see beautifully,” and drawn from the museum’s growing permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works, Seeing Differently will highlight over 200 diverse artistic expressions by artists from the 19th century to the present, including paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs
Director of Music Jeremy Ney on Renée Stout and the blues. Visit our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter August 10-30 to learn more about the intersections of art and music.
The Phillips Collection galleries have been dark and empty and our staff and visitors have been missing our beloved collection. In this series we will highlight artworks that the Phillips staff have really been missing lately. Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs Klaus Ottmann on why he misses the Rothko Room.
