Exhibition Videos
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Phillips Collection offers an intimate encounter with one of the worlds finest collections of impressionist and modern American and European art. Works by Degas, Diebenkorn, Klee, Lawrence, Picasso, Renoir, Rothko, and many others are displayed in constantly changing installations that illuminate unexpected relationships and conversations between artists from different time periods and parts of the world.
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Van Gogh Repetitions
October 30, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - 15 MB VideoExhibition curator Eliza Rathbone gives an introduction to Van Gogh Repetitions. In the first Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) exhibition in DC in 15 years, the Phillips brings together 35 of his celebrated portraits and landscapes from some of the world’s most renowned collections. It features results of more than half a decade of research into the artist’s process, revealing a fascinating picture of his personal life and art. While recognized for the intensity and speed with which he painted,...
Pakistani Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series
October 24, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes - 12.8 MB VideoIn April 2013, the Phillips partnered with the US Department of State to conduct a series of workshops in Pakistan focusing on art and social change. Using Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41) as a catalyst for conversation about the power of storytelling through art, emerging artists, middle and high school students, art educators, and museum professionals worked together to create visual narratives about identity, personal struggle, and Pakistani history. The exhibition, presenti...
Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945
June 19, 2013 13:00 - 4 minutes - 22.1 MB VideoExhibition curator Renée Maurer discusses Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945. The exhibition is the first in-depth look at the years leading up to and through World War II, a period of experimentation and transition in Braque’s career, when he used the motif of still life to synthesize cubist discoveries and hone his individual style. Forty-four sumptuous canvases, along with related objects, trace the artist’s journey from painting still lifes in intimate interiors in the la...
Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet
February 09, 2013 14:00 - 1 minute - 7.52 MB VideoExhibition co-curator Klaus Ottmann discusses the exhibition Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, on view February 9 through May 12, 2013.
Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture
October 06, 2012 23:00 - 3 minutes - 16 MB VideoCurator Klaus Ottman discusses Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture, on view October 6, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture is the most comprehensive survey in the United States to date of works by Scandinavia’s most highly acclaimed living artist, Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. 1938). Equally trained as a geologist and an artist, Kirkeby is a painter of eminent sensuality, creating richly layered canvases filled with prodigious detail and animated by an unequaled ma...
Antony Gormley: Drawing Space
June 02, 2012 22:03 - 4 minutes - 17 MB VideoArtist Antony Gormley discusses his exhibition, Antony Gormley: Drawing Space. The Phillips presents drawings and sculptures by one of Britain's most high-profile living artists, Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the Turner Prize-winner's first U.S. museum exhibition of works on paper. Known for his sculpture and installations that investigate the human form and its connection to space, Gormley is also an accomplished draftsman. Approximately 80 works on paper along with two recent sculptures emph...
Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme
June 02, 2012 14:00 - 3 minutes - 14.4 MB VideoCurator Renee Maurer discusses Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme, on view June 2 through September 9, 2012. One of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) transformed the field of printmaking. For over 50 years, he has tested the medium's boundaries, reinventing subjects like targets, American flags, and images from art history in endless variation. The first exhibition of his work at The Phillips Collection features 101 iconic prints with groundbreaking exam...
Eye to Eye: Joseph Marioni
October 22, 2011 20:40 - 3 minutes - 14 MB VideoSenior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Vesela Sretenovic introduces the installation Eye to Eye: Joseph Marioni at the Phillips, on view Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012. Thirteen glowing paintings by Marioni are surrounded by about 40 works from the museum's collection that trace the development of color and light in modern painting. This is the first Washington, D.C., exhibition of Marioni's work. Organized as part of The Phillips Collection's 90th anniversary. More about this installa...
Dancers at the Barre: Kirov Academy of Ballet
October 01, 2011 20:41 - 1 minute - 7.49 MB VideoBallet students from the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, D.C. bring Degas's artworks to life in the Phillips's galleries in honor of special exhibition Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint on view October 1, 2011 through January 8, 2012 at The Phillips Collection.
Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint
October 01, 2011 18:40 - 2 minutes - 8.53 MB VideoEdgar Degas (1834--1917) was fascinated by the world of ballet. Bringing together about 30 works from some of the world's finest collections, the exhibition traces ballet in Degas's art from the 1870s to 1900. It is the first exploration of Degas's dancers in Washington, D.C., in over 25 years. The exhibition celebrates the Phillips's Dancers at the Barre as a crowning achievement in the artist's four decade career and presents discoveries from the painting's recent conservation. The exhibi...
Will Ryman's Roses: 58th Street
August 04, 2011 20:41 - 2 minutes - 24.7 MB VideoWill Ryman's Roses: 58th Street August 4, 2011-January 5, 2012 Colossal fiberglass and stainless steel rose blossoms adorn the Phillips's lawn at the corner of 21st and Q streets. Drawing inspiration from nature's cycles, the structure transforms in the changing light of the fall and winter seasons. In conjunction with 90 Years of New, a yearlong celebration of the museum's 90th anniversary.
Kandinsky and the Harmonry of Silence: Painting with White Border
June 11, 2011 20:41 - 3 minutes - 10.8 MB VideoCurator Elsa Smithgall introduces the exhibition Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border, on view June 11--Sept. 4, 2011. After a visit to his native Moscow in 1912, Wassily Kandinsky (1866--1944) sought to record his "extremely powerful impressions." The exhibition reunites his 1913 masterpiece, Painting with White Border, with preparatory studies from international collections, and compares it with other closely related works.
Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series
June 11, 2011 20:41 - 2 minutes - 9.2 MB VideoAn overview from curator Elsa Smithgall for the exhibition Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series, on view June 11—Sept. 4, 2011. The eight recent sculptures from Frank Stella's (b. 1936) Scarlatti Kirkpatrick Series—swirling, multicolored polychrome forms with coiled steel tubing armatures—are dynamic evocations of the colorful sounds and rhythms of Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas.
David Smith Invents
February 12, 2011 21:42 - 2 minutes - 9.13 MB VideoPhillips Curator Susan Behrends Frank gives insight on special exhibition David Smith Invents, on view at the Phillips from Feb. 12 through May 15, 2011. David Smith Invents explores an extraordinarily fertile period in the career of the sculptor David Smith (1906--65) from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. On exhibit are 40 works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, and Smith's own photographs of his sculptures. Smith famously recognized no distinction between sculpture, painting...
Philip Guston, Roma
February 12, 2011 21:42 - 3 minutes - 8.68 MB VideoCurator Peter Benson Miller introduces special exhibition Philip Guston, Roma, on view at The Phillips Collection Feb. 12 through May 15, 2011. Philip Guston, Roma brings together for the first time 39 paintings from Philip Guston's Roma series, produced during his six months as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1970--71. Saturated in deep pinks and salmons, Guston's cartoon-like pictures evoke numerous aspects of the ancient and modern Roman cityscape and Italian art a...
Sam Gilliam, Flour Mill
January 29, 2011 21:42 - 5 minutes - 22.4 MB VideoSam Gilliam's new work responds directly to Arthur Dove's Flour Mill II (1938) which he first saw at the Phillips in the early 1960s. On view Jan. 29 through April 24, 2011. During the fall of 1967 The Phillips Collection gave Sam Gilliam his first solo museum exhibition. Nearly 45 years later, Gilliam has created his first site-specific installation for the Phillips, to coincide with its 90th anniversary. Artworks: Arthur Dove, Flour Mill II. 1938. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D...
Behind-the-Scenes with Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By: Part I
January 08, 2011 21:42 - 9 minutes - 56.2 MB VideoGo behind-the-scenes with Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By (2009), among the world's largest etchings, in this three part video series. Part I: Devising a system to mount, display, and store the ten-panel, 3,600 square foot artwork Hodgkin's most ambitious work to date is on view Jan. 8-May 8, 2011 in 90 Years of New: Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By, a special installation in honor of the Phillips's 90th anniversary. Comprising starbursts of vibrant color, the two 20-foot-long, hand-paint...
Behind-the-Scenes with Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By: Part II
January 08, 2011 21:42 - 4 minutes - 22.3 MB VideoGo behind-the-scenes with Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By (2009), among the world's largest etchings, in this three part video series. Part II: Installing the panels in the Phillips's intimate main gallery Hodgkin's most ambitious work to date is on view Jan. 8-May 8, 2011 in 90 Years of New: Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By, a special installation in honor of the Phillips's 90th anniversary. Comprising starbursts of vibrant color, the two 20-foot-long, hand-painted etchings were recent...
Behind-the-Scenes Part III: Howard Hodgkin in Conversation with Dorothy Kosinski
January 08, 2011 21:41 - 12 minutes - 67.3 MB VideoDorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., interviews artist Howard Hodgkin. They discuss the museum's major new acquisition of two monumental Hodgkin works -- As Time Goes By -- gifts to the museum in memory of Laughlin Phillips, installed in the museum's main gallery. The interview took place in January 2011. This video is the third part in a series going behind the scenes with Hodgkin's monumental work As Time Goes By.
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
October 09, 2010 20:42 - 2 minutes - 13.4 MB VideoIn this video, Phillips Collection curator Elsa Smithgall introduces special exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, on view at The Phillips Collection Oct. 9, 2010 through Jan. 9, 2011. Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism expanded the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Pictorialist photographers produced some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium a...
Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings
September 12, 2010 20:42 - 49 seconds - 3.04 MB VideoThe artist speaks! Hear Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) read from his notebooks on art at The Phillips Collection in 1992. In a special exhibition on view through September 12, 2010 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., see works from a pivotal interlude in Richard Pousette-Dart's prolific career, when he merged drawing with painting in luminous and poetic works created nearly without paint. They continued to inspire him; as Pousette-Dart said, "white is something you endlessly ...
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
February 17, 2010 19:15 - 4 minutes - 11.9 MB VideoCurator Elsa Smithgall introduces the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Although best known for her iconic representations of flowers, landscapes, and animal bones, Georgia O'Keeffe's abstract work is as bold and breathtaking as that of her European contemporaries Picasso, Matisse, and Kandinsky. See an American legend in a whole new light in this exhibition of over 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors. In conjunction with Georgia O'...
Man Ray, African Art and the Contemporary Lens: Renée Stout
November 24, 2009 20:05 - 3 minutes - 8.48 MB VideoRenée Stout, a Washington, D.C. painter and sculptor, speaks on the relationship of African art to her practice. In conjunction with special exhibition Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens at The Phillips Collection October 10, 2009-January 10, 2010.
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
October 10, 2009 19:14 - 2 minutes - 8.83 MB VideoMan Ray translated the 20th-century modernist taste for African art into photographs that reached a popular audience. About 60 of his photographs, many never before exhibited, along with more than 40 photographs by his contemporaries, including Cecil Beaton, Walker Evans, and Alfred Stieglitz, will appear side-by-side with 20 of the African objects featured in the images. The exhibition explores the pivotal role of these photographs in shaping the perception of non-Western objects as fine art...
Paint Made Flesh
June 20, 2009 18:08 - 3 minutes - 20 MB VideoPaint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death. In the tradition of great figure painting stretching back to Rembrandt and Titian, the 34 artists in the exhibition, working in the years since World War II, exploit oil paint's visual and tactile properties to mirror those of the body, while exploring the body...
Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life
February 21, 2009 20:20 - 2 minutes - 7.04 MB VideoGiorgio Morandi approached painting with the concentration of a Zen master. Working in the small apartment he shared with his mother and three sisters in Bologna, Morandi's carefully chosen collection of bottles, bowls, and jars served as his muse. He altered these objects by painting their exteriors, erasing their labels and reflections to expose their shape and volume, painstingly creating still-life arrangements. Quietly mesmerizing and mysterious, Morandi's paintings hover between physic...
Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
April 04, 2008 18:03 - 1 minute - 3.46 MB VideoThis exhibition celebrates an extraordinary array of newly acquired and promised gifts to the museum. It features nearly 100 works by European and American modern masters including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Hans Hofmann, Paul Klee, Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Motherwell, Aaron Siskind, and David Smith, as well as living artists William Christenberry, Howard Hodgkin, Ellsworth Kelly, Sean Scully, and many others. The strengt...