Posts Tagged ‘the phillips collection’

Phillips After 5: Photo Extravaganza

Union Station by NicoleHamam
Tonight the Phillips Collection (along with ReadysetDC, Worn Magazine, and Dandies and Quaintrelles) is throwing a pre-party and a post-party as a prelude to FotoWeek DC.  Did that make any sense?  Regardless, there’s a whole lot going on at Phillips After 5 tonight (5-8:30PM) that we encourage you to check out:

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REFRESH Fridays @ Phillips

‘Peep of View’
courtesy of ‘rabid_c’
Now that the frigid cold has passed and the whole DC-area is heat stricken, The Phillips Collection has decided to bring back the wildly popular winter promotion, De-Frost Fridays with a much “cooler” look.
Refresh Fridays began last week and will continue through August 27th.  Head over to The Phillips Collection on [...]

We Love Arts: Georgia O’Keeffe Abstraction

Black Door with Red, 1954.  Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.  Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 89.63 (CR1271). Copyright, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
“Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.” – Georgia O’Keeffe, 1976
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We Love Arts: Object as Subject

I’ve never been a particular fan of still lifes. But The Phillips Collection’s current exhibit Object as Subject: Photographs of the Czech Avant-Garde might just change my mind. It’s a small showing, highlighting some thirty photographs from the 1920’s and ’30’s. Apparently Prague was second only to Paris as a major center of surrealism, and [...]

Cafe [This Is Not That]

‘Café Stühle’
courtesy of ‘mueritz’
The Phillips Collection is opening a new cafe tomorrow. This would be rather blase news, except this cafe is not that. Almost too-deep and meta for me to grasp (I’m having to reach back to my time at art school, here) Cafe sounds badass. Pairing actual art, with a literal eat-place, bound [...]