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Meet Our Chief Curator Elsa Smithgall

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Experiment Station

Meet our new Chief Curator Elsa Smithgall—who has been part of the Phillips’s curatorial team for 26 years—and hear about her goals for the department. You have been at The Phillips Collection for 26 years. How do you think the Phillips has changed since then? How has the curatorial field changed since then? The Phillips […]

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Thoughts on women’s rights and our work in the museum

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Dorothy Kosinski

I know I am not alone in being depressed and appalled by the erosion of women’s rights in this country and around the world. Rape is used as a tool of power, terror, and abuse in war zones in Europe and Africa. Women are forced from their jobs and girls are turned away from schools […]

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Remembering John Lewis

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Dorothy Kosinski

Congressman John Lewis visited The Phillips Collection in May 2008 during the whirlwind first months of my tenure as director of the museum. He joined me and curator Elsa Smithgall along with National Endowment for the Arts Chair Dana Gioia to view our installation of Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. He also generously made time to […]

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