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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler

Conversations with Artists - April 09, 2015 13:00 - 2 days
April 9, 2015 Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler have been working collaboratively in video, photography, and sculpture since 1990. Their work invites suggestive, open-ended reflections on memory, place, and cinema. Both are graduate faculty members at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the...

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Johan Grimonprez

Conversations with Artists - February 26, 2015 23:30 - 1 hour
February 26, 2015 Johan Grimonprez is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator whose works critique mass produced contemporary and historical imagery. He achieved international acclaim with his film essay Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997). Grimonprez divides his time between Brussels and New...

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Paul Pfeiffer

Conversations with Artists - February 18, 2015 23:30 - 1 hour
February 18, 2015 Winner of the Whitney Museum’s first Bucksbaum Award in 2000, Paul Pfeiffer creates groundbreaking video, sculpture, and photography that reflect on collective psychological states related to the history of image production. In conversation with Alexander Dumbadze, Associate P...

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Jesper Just

Conversations with Artists - December 11, 2014 23:30 - 37 minutes
December 11, 2014 The Danish-born, Brooklyn-based artist known for his immersive cinematography and emotionally-pitched soundtracks reflects on notions of space, memory, and cultural displacement. In Conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director for the Center of the Study of Modern Art and Curator...

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Dinh Q. Lê

Conversations with Artists - October 30, 2014 13:00 - 2 days
October 30, 2014 Conceptual artist Dinh Q. Lê uses documentary video, animation, and photography to explore the history and people of his native Vietnam, usually set against impressions and representations from the United States, where he lived in his youth. He returned to live and work in Ho C...

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Peter Hutton

Conversations with Artists - October 16, 2014 22:30 - 45 minutes
October 16, 2014 Peter Hutton’s cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes evoke early films and traditions of painting and still photography. In 2008, the Bard College professor’s work was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In conversation with Alexander Du...

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Zarina Bhimji

Conversations with Artists - April 24, 2014 23:00 - 1 hour
April 24, 2014 Ugandan-born London-based multimedia artist Zarina Bhimji uses photography, film, and sound installations to explore topics like history and memory, particularly as it relates to post-colonial Africa and Europe. Her work features hauntingly sparse landscapes and ethereal soundtra...

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Zoё Charlton

Conversations with Artists - April 10, 2014 23:00 - 1 hour
April 10, 2014 Zoё Charlton creates drawings, videos, and sculptures that examine issues of gender and race. She is best known for her large-scale drawings of sexualized bodies of black women or nude white male figures that explore the ironies of contemporary social and racial politics. Charlto...

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Katrín Sigurđardóttir

Conversations with Artists - March 27, 2014 23:00 - 1 hour
March 27, 2014 The work of Icelandic sculptor Katrín Sigurđardóttir examines the embodiment of distance and memory in architecture, cartography, and traditional landscapes. Her works cross the boundary between perceived and physical space, forcing viewers to create new spatial relationships. In...

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Hassan Khan

Conversations with Artists - February 21, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour
February 20, 2014 The work of British-born Egyptian multimedia artist, musician, and writer Hassan Khan is informed by history and culture. Khan interprets personal and communal experiences through experimental video, digital animation, sculpture, text, photography, and sound. In conversation w...

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Catherine Sullivan

Conversations with Artists - January 24, 2014 00:00 - 50 minutes
January 23, 2014 Originally trained as an actress, Catherine Sullivan stages elaborate filmed and live performances that use historical references to address societal structures. In conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large. In coll...

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Wade Guyton

Conversations with Artists - November 22, 2013 00:00 - 1 hour
November 21, 2013 New York-based painter Wade Guyton uses everyday digital technologies such as desktop computers, scanners, and inkjet printers to explore traditional forms of art. In conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large. In c...

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Van Gogh Repetitions

Exhibition Videos - October 30, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Exhibition 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 res...

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Pakistani Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series

Exhibition Videos - October 24, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In 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,...

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Yve-Alain Bois

Duncan Phillips Lectures - September 19, 2013 23:00 - 46 minutes
Sep 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.

Permanent Collection Audio Tour artwork

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Paganini, 1798-1863 (#89)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - June 25, 2013 20:57 - 2 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Paganini, 1831 Acquired 1922 Oil on canvas

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Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945

Exhibition Videos - June 19, 2013 13:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Exhibition 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 synt...

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Wangechi Mutu

Conversations with Artists - April 18, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour
April 18, 2013 Through her sculptures and paintings, Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu pays homage to notions of the sublime and the abject together with identity, race, and poverty. In conversation with Curator at Large Klaus Ottmann. In collaboration with the George Washington University.

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Daniel Bozhkov

Conversations with Artists - April 11, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour
April 11, 2013 From frescoes to performances, Daniel Bozhkov activates public spaces, often working with professionals from different fields. In conversation with Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the George Washington University James Sham. In collaboration with the George Washington Univers...

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Jessica Stockholder

Conversations with Artists - March 21, 2013 23:00 - 1 hour
March 21, 2013 Jessica Stockholder creates site-specific "paintings in space" using everyday objects and materials. In conversation with Phillips Curator at Large Klaus Ottmann. in collaboration with the George Washington University.

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Pierre-August Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881 (#75)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 22:05 - 3 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
Pierre-August Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-1881, Acquired 1923 Oil on canvas

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Wasily Kandinsky, Sketch I for Painting with White Border, 1913 (#87)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 16:43 - 1 minute ★★★ - 1 rating
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is considered a pioneer of abstract art. Sketch I for Painting with White Border is one of more than 15 preparatory studies he completed leading up to the final masterpiece, Painting with White Border, which is in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Wolfgang Laib, Wax Room: Where Have You Gone—Where Are You Going?, 2013 (#86)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 16:37 - 1 minute ★★★ - 1 rating
Here this is a very, very small room, but it has a very beautiful concentration and intensity, which when you come into a wax room it’s like coming into another world. You are enclosed with your own body by this beeswax, which is not manmade. I think it’s going to somewhere else, to another world...

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Pierre Bonnard, The Open Window, 1921 (#85)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 16:23 - 1 minute ★★★ - 1 rating
One of the great French painters of the 20th century, Pierre Bonnard created a highly personal body of work deeply rooted in nature and everyday life. His compositions, full of luminous color and light, anticipated the color fields of Mark Rothko and the vaporous washes of Morris Louis.

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William Christenberry, Southern Monument XI, 1983 (#88)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★ - 1 rating
This is Southern Monument XI, made in 1983. And it is a cube form with a sphere in the top and it is surrounded by a field of real Alabama red soil. It is an attempt on my part to evoke a feeling of a monument, albeit somewhat abstract, that one might find in the landscape.

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Paul Klee, Arab Song, 1932 (#84)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 14:00 - 2 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
German artist Paul Klee was one of the great painters and teachers of the 20th century. He inspired generations of artists with his highly personal, whimsical, and often mysterious art. His works are deeply rooted in his love of music, nature, and the ancient traditions of pictorial writing.

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The Music Room (#79)

Permanent Collection Audio Tour - March 08, 2013 14:00 - 2 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating
The Phillips Collection’s story begins with a family: 11-year-old Duncan Phillips, the future founder of The Phillips Collection, his brother James, and their parents moved from Pittsburgh into this house in the late 1890s.

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Tehching Hsieh

Conversations with Artists - February 28, 2013 14:00 - 1 hour
February 28, 2013 Using his body as his medium, performance artist Hsieh transcends traditional sculpture. In conversation with Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Associate Curator Anne Goodyear. In collaboration with the George Washington University with support from the Phillips Internatio...

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Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Exhibition Videos - February 09, 2013 14:00 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Exhibition co-curator Klaus Ottmann discusses the exhibition Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, on view February 9 through May 12, 2013.

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Pedro Reyes

Conversations with Artists - November 30, 2012 00:00 - 1 hour
November 29, 2012 Reyes's works—a temporary clinic, a puppet show, a man-propelled vehicle—call for individual and collective interaction and reflection. In conversation with Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Vesela Sretenović. In collaboration with the George Washington University,...