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February 29, 2020 - January 3, 2021
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.
April 30, 2015
May 29, 2020
April 9, 2025
Mirella and Dani Levinas, Dinga McCannon, and Jarl Mohn–2025 Duncan Phillips Award Recipient, to be honored on May 9 WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection announces that Mirella and Dani Levinas (posthumously), Dindga McCannon, and Jarl Mohn will be honored at the 2025 Annual Gala: Powered by Artists on May 9. The evening, hosted in the museum’s intimate galleries, celebrates the Phillips’s commitment to advancing art, fostering creativity, and strengthening community engagement. This year’s theme, Powered by Artists, reflects the legacy of museum founder Duncan Phillips and his wife Marjorie
October 28, 2020
Major additions by international artists including Per Kirkeby, Aim é Mpane, Janet Taylor Pickett The Phillips Collection has announced major new acquisitions including a video by John Akomfrah, a two-panel fabric work by Benny Andrews, a large-scale wall-hanging by Aimé Mpane, and others. These new acquisitions reflect the museum’s efforts to enhance and diversify the collection by embracing works that reflect a narrative of modern and contemporary art beyond the traditional focus on European and American art, and also speak to the communities we hope to serve. “The Phillips’s collection has
February 11, 2021
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
April 6, 2014, 4 PM
Celebrating the Made in the USA exhibition at the Phillips, the International Contemporary Ensemble performs the music of Brazilian American composers Marcos Balter and Felipe Lara.