Three masterworks from the Phillips Collection sold at auction Thursday evening for a combined $13,413,000. The D.C. institution forged ahead with the sale of works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove ...

When the Rothko Room—which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s works in a snug, serene space—opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist’s wishes were ...

“I’m embarrassed by some of the premature judgments of my youth,” Duncan Phillips wrote in 1927. That was roughly 14 years after the founder of the Phillips Collection dismissed “as a bunch of damned ...

Established in 1921 as the first American museum of modern art, Washington, D.C.’s Phillips Collection was the incubator and showplace for collector Duncan Phillips’ unique approach to art. In a ...

Bernardi Roig, “Herr Mauroner” (2008) (all images courtesy of the artist) The main building of the Phillips Collection, the oldest modern art museum in America, is a sprawling, neo-Georgian affair, ...

In 1962, as newlyweds and new Washingtonians, my husband and I would stroll down Connecticut Avenue to the Phillips Collection on Sunday afternoons, arrange ourselves on a brocade love seat, light up ...

HIGH POINT — When market opens in April, one of High Point’s most visible Main Street properties will have a new look and a new tenant. Once the dust settles and the lights are on at 135 S. Main St., ...

Installation view of Tobi Kahn exhibit (with Diebenkorn in the next room), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. In 1985, The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted an exhibition of contemporary ...

In John Akomfrah’s 2013 video, “Transfigured Night,” a Black man is seen looking out the window of a sterile office at a bright but bleak landscape of high-rise buildings. He is a solitary, vulnerable ...

Across the nation, art exhibitions offer a look at the impact artists have on one another, their subjects and their communities. By Lauren Messman This year, art exhibitions explore the Parisian ...