Pierre Bonnard’s work may resemble that of the impressionists; however, he painted from memory rather than from life, which accounts for the dreamlike quality of his pictures. Bonnard’s quiet and ...

The Spanish Ballet reflects the fascination with Spanish art and culture manifest in Edouard Manet’s work in the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s. His exploration of these romantic stereotypes ...

In the winter of 1979–80, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941, Long Beach, California; d. 2022; Amagansett, Long Island, New York) traded homes with a writer friend who had rented a house with a small, ...

How can one be a German artist after Nazism and the destruction of “kultur”? This is the question Anselm Kiefer asked himself, echoing the famous lines in Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics of 1955: ...

The 2023/24 season closes with a special performance by a group of elite chamber musicians, led by violinist Livia Sohn and pianist Pedja Mužijević, regular performers at the prestigious Spoleto ...

After his forced resignation from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1886, Eakins concentrated almost solely on portraiture. Among his finest and most compelling portraits is this painting of a former ...

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Champions of Washington, DC’s artistic community to be honored on May 10 To date, the 2024 Annual Gala has raised over $700,000 to support the Phillips’s innovative and expansive education, community ...

Created during the COVID-19 lockdown, Roig’s drawings are a powerful meditation on life and death and the mystery of Francisco José de Goya’s decapitated head. WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection ...

A Phillips tradition since 1941; presenting exceptional performances in the intimate, art-filled setting of the museum’s Music Room. Thank you for joining us for the 2023-24 season of Phillips Music.

The Phillips Collection’s workshop and gallery at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) provides a space to view, discuss, make, and exhibit art. Our programs are co-created with our ...

The exhibition unveils two recently conserved works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire (1886-87) and Self-Portrait (1878-80), major paintings that are part of The Phillips ...