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A Closer Look: Introduction

Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute - Video
Most examinations began with a careful inspection in good overall lighting to get a general sense of the painting. Other techniques exploit different types of electromagnetic radiation, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and x-rays. This collection of videos focuses on the study of four paintings by ...

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A Closer Look: New Examination Techniques XRF

Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute - Video
In this video, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, or XRF, a recent advance in x-ray technology, is discussed.

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A Conjugation of Verb by Bernhard Hildebrandt / Intersections Art Projects

Videos from the Phillips - July 18, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video
Intersections artist Bernhard Hildebrandt installs and discusses his work, A Conjugation of Verb, on view June 27 through September 22, 2013. Using images of El Greco’s The Repentant St. Peter(c. 1600–1605 or later) from the collection, Baltimore-based artist Hildebrandt explores baroque themes...

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A Conjugation of Verb by Bernhard Hildebrandt

Intersections Contemporary Art Projects - July 18, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video
Intersections artist Bernhard Hildebrandt installs and discusses his work, A Conjugation of Verb, on view June 27 through September 22, 2013. Using images of El Greco’s The Repentant St. Peter(c. 1600–1605 or later) from the collection, Baltimore-based artist Hildebrandt explores baroque themes...

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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

Videos from the Phillips - June 19, 2013 13:00 - 4 minutes - Video
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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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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Still Life with Fruit Dish, Bottle and Mandolin (1930)

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 - June 06, 2013 01:00 - 1 minute
Stop 3 Discussion of Braque’s thoughts on scientific perspective and his creative process

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Case Material from 1939

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 - June 06, 2013 01:00 - 1 minute
Stop 4 Critical responses to Braque’s first retrospective in 1939 in comparison to critical response to Picasso’s work

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Large Interior with Palette (1942)

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 - June 06, 2013 01:00 - 58 seconds
Stop 6 Discussion of Large Interior with Palette and the theme of still life


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The Round Table (1929)

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 - June 06, 2013 01:00 - 1 minute
Stop 1 Greeting and discussion of Braque’s The Round Table by curator Renée Maurer

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Mandolin and Score (The Banjo) (1941)

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 - June 06, 2013 01:00 - 1 minute
Stop 5 French writer and publisher Jean Paulhan on Braque’s creative process

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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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Installing Laib Wax Room / Permanent Collection

Videos from the Phillips - March 15, 2013 21:01 - 3 minutes - Video
German artist Wolfgang Laib (b. 1950) installs a wax room at The Phillips Collection, the first permanently installed artwork at the Phillips since the Rothko Room in 1960 and the first wax room that Laib has created for a specific museum.

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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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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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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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Vanitas! by Jeanne Silverthorne

Intersections Contemporary Art Projects - February 28, 2013 14:58 - 4 minutes - Video
Silverthorne uses rubber to create floral reliefs and objects typically found in an artist’s studio. Her sculptures, along with the modernist still lifes from the collection with which they are interspersed, are vanitas—meditations on the brevity of life.

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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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Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet / Exhibition Videos

Videos from the Phillips - February 09, 2013 14:00 - 1 minute - Video
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,...

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(IN)balance by Xavier Veilhan / Intersections Art Projects

Videos from the Phillips - November 03, 2012 23:00 - 2 minutes - Video
Intersections artist Xavier Veilhan discusses his exhibition (IN)balance, on view at the Phillips November 3, 2012 through February 10, 2013. The first major museum presentation of Veilhan's work in the U.S. and the most extensive Intersections project to date features 18 recent pieces in sever...