Why You Must See an Alma Thomas in Person
October 27, 2021
Summer 2021 Curatorial Intern Naimah Jangha shares her impressions of experiencing Alma Thomas’s work.

October 27, 2021
March 3, 2025
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
April 17, 2024
June 5, 2024
March 1-April 10, 2022
This exhibition is a partnership between The Phillips Collection and the photography club at Woodrow Wilson High School. The students used the exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful (on view at the Phillips fall 2021) as a springboard for their own exploration of beauty. Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978) was a DC-based teacher and artist who found beauty all around her: in the view out her window, in her backyard garden and the flower beds around DC, and in current events happening during her lifetime. Thomas also created titles that captured the sensory experience of being in nature
August 7, 2015
July 31, 2015
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