The Phillips Collection

09/04/2026

This weekend is Bank of America's Museums on Us weekend! Show your Bank of America debit or credit card and a photo ID to get free admission to the Phillips. Learn more ▶️ https://t.co/79Ujeq1KpB

📷 Guest in the galleries with Georges Braque's Lemons and Napkin Ring. Photo: AK Blythe.

09/04/2026

Congratulations to the People's Choice Award winner! Hannah Atallah's how stunningly beautiful that our sacred respect for earth, for life is deeper than our rage (Portrait of Salua Moussawel) (2024) was selected by guest through public voting and announced last night at Phillips after 5!

See the work in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise, on view through September 20 ✨

09/01/2026

Sasha Baskin uses depictions of reality TV characters to interrogate the exploitation of women’s bodies and narratives for fleeting celebrity and entertainment in pop culture. In Persephone II (Reece Unravels), Baskin compares a young reality television star to Persephone, the ancient Greek goddess of spring who spends half the year in the underworld. Reece, a central figure in America’s Sweethearts, is followed as she auditions, is cast, and performs with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Her place is never secure; each season requires renewed submission to a gamified audition and training process. Like Persephone, she exists as an ordinary woman most of the year, then ascends briefly into goddess-like visibility.

See Baskin's work in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise, on view at The Phillips Collection through September 20 ▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/30/2026

Diego Borgsdorf’s Rewe Tapestry adopts a traditional Chilean weaving style, emblematic of pieces sold in tourist markets. The work integrates locally sourced wool roving, partially hand-dyed in a sucrose indigo vat, alongside ceramic chanchito pigs. Borgsdorf created the tapestry while researching the life and Indigenous art collection of artist Luchita Hurtado, whose estate supported the production of this artwork. Borgsdorf discovered that Hurtado and her husband Lee Mullican, while teaching at the Universidad de Chile in 1968, purchased a Mapuche rewe, or spiritual totem pole. Borgsdorf brings together tourist objects and materials tied to extraction and displacement, inviting reflection on how history, materiality, and art are interconnected.

See Borgsdorf's tapestry in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise at the Phillips 🧵 ▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/28/2026

Continuing in the tradition of mending with needle and thread, Katie O’Keefe stitches together layers of sheer fabric in works that portray an intimate picture of her healing journey. Each piece starts with a detailed drawing where the artist focuses on finding strength, beauty, and acceptance of her form. Living with an invisible illness, O’Keefe takes note of how her body has changed, and is changing, and replaces fear with fascination as she traces lines of nerve pain.

See O’Keefe's work in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition 🧵▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/27/2026

Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise closes on September 20, but that is not your last chance to see the works in this show! Most of the works from the exhibition are for sale directly through the artist—visit our website for more info ▶️ https://bit.ly/46nDU1W

The Phillips Collection is not facilitating sales nor taking any commission.

08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day! Pierre Bonnard loved his furry friends just as much as we do. 🐶

Bonnard’s Woman with Dog shows the artist’s wife, Marthe, sitting across the dinner table, holding a small brown dog in her lap in an intimate, domestic scene. Bonnard’s canine companions served as both beloved pets and as inspiration for his art. He was especially fond of dachshunds, owning several throughout his life, many sharing the name “Poucette”.

🎨 Pierre Bonnard, Woman with Dog, 1922, oil on canvas, acquired 1925; © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

08/25/2026

“An up-to-the-minute slice of what’s happening in local art.” —Washington City Paper

Read the review of Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise at The Phillips Collection ▶️ https://bit.ly/3S5aW3D

The Phillips Collection’s Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise, a special exhibit featuring 48 area artists, has a sensual, tactile throughline.

08/25/2026

One of the 60 works featured in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise will receive the People's Choice Award—cast your vote by August 30 ▶️ https://bit.ly/4xkgdUf

The winner be announced at Phillips after 5 on September 3.

08/22/2026

Celebrate the iconic works of The Phillips Collection during a special edition of Phillips after 5: Phillips Flash on September 3! Tickets ▶️ https://bit.ly/4gKxgJ7

🎨 In collaboration with Cry Baby Studios, get a flash tattoo inspired by works from the collection.
🏆 Find out who won the People's Choice Award for Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition.
🎙️ Enjoy a performance by Justin Trawick and the Common Good.
📝 Join Strictly Critical (Christian Viveros-Fauné and Blake Gopnick) for a session of art criticism.
🎧 Groove to a DJ set by DJ Stylus.
🖼️ Join a Spotlight Talk with a Phillips Educator.