Duncan Phillips Lectures
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago -The Duncan Phillips Lectures are given by distinguished artists, historians, and critics, whose presentations cover a broad range of aesthetic concerns. The lecture series was started in 1987 by Laughlin Phillips (director of the museum from 1972 to 1992) in honor of his father, Duncan Phillips, the founder of The Phillips Collection.
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Episodes
Yve-Alain Bois
September 19, 2013 23:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBSep 19, 2013 Yve-Alain Bois, the author of Kelly’s catalogue raisonné, discusses Kelly’s works. Bois, a prominent scholar of 20th-century European and American art, is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
Rick Moody
November 02, 2012 23:00 - 39 minutes - 140 MB VideoNov 2, 2013 Known for his novels chronicling American life, including The Ice Storm (1994), The Diviners (2005), and The Four Fingers of Death (2010), Moody is also deeply involved in music. His band, the Wingdale Community Singers, performs folk music with a modernist edge. In his recent collection of essays, On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening (2012), Moody expresses his passion for music from Otis Redding to Meredith Monk.
Peter Doig
March 17, 2011 09:10 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBMar 17, 2011 The paintings of the Scottish-born, Trinidad-based artist Peter Doig give off a modest, quiet nostalgia. Referencing both art history and popular culture, his imagery asserts the primacy of the painting process and turns the real and familiar into uncanny presences. Recorded March 17, 2011 in The Phillips Collection Auditorium.
Alfredo Jaar
October 03, 2010 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBOct 3, 2010 An artist known for his politically charged pieces, Alfredo Jaar discusses his work in the context of American cultural exchange and explores the ways that art and society fit into U.S. political and economic foreign policy.
Adam Gopnik
October 09, 2009 08:10 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBOct 9, 2009 Writer and critic Adam Gopnik explores how myths and anecdotes about artists and artwork affect the way art is perceived. Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has won both the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Essay.
Eric Fischl
July 16, 2009 16:15 - 1 hour - 150 MBJul 16, 2009 Fischl’s upbringing in the suburbs of Long Island later informed his figurative paintings as well as his sculptures, drawings, and prints, which attack themes of sexuality and voyeurism while exposing the unsettling reality of mainstream American life. Currently, Fischl is working as curator and founder of America: Now and Here, a cross-country traveling exhibition of multi-disciplinary works reflecting differing viewpoints and hopes for America.
Kerry James Marshall
May 16, 2008 00:19 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBMay 15, 2008 Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Marshall's images of the contemporary African-American urban experience are layered narratives of social order and disorder, memories and myths. Recorded May 15, 2008 in The Phillips Collection Auditorium.
Robert Storr
December 07, 2007 01:10 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBDec 6, 2007 The Dean of the Yale University School of Art and former curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York speaks on "The Modern Museum and the Challenge of Postmodern Art." Recorded December 6, 2007 in The Phillips Collection Auditorium.