Talking Culture in the Global Classroom

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Experiment Station

On Tuesday October 8, 2013, Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Phillips Curator at Large Klaus Ottmann gave a special bi-local lecture to Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service students in Washington, DC and Doha, Qatar at Georgetown University’s Polycom RealPresence Experience (RPX) classroom. The RPX classroom allows the students to meet face-to-face in real time for discussion and interaction despite being separated by continents and time zones.

Made in the USA: Maquette Madness

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Experiment Station

Curator for Research Sue Frank works with Curatorial Intern Joseph Shaikewitz sort through maquettes for the approximately 160 works in the Made in the U.S.A. exhibition coming to the museum in the fall.

The British Are Here

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Experiment Station

In the postwar years, Duncan Phillips earnestly sought out examples of contemporary British art for his museum, assembling a diverse group of neo-romantic artists who were committed to exploring the tension between abstract and objective imagery in a variety of manners and styles. Phillips began the tradition of an “English Room” at the museum after organizing an exhibition of the collection’s British paintings in 1960.