American Acrostics: Harold Weston

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Experiment Station

Harold Weston, Winds, Upper Ausable Lake, 1922. Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 22 3/16 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Gift of Mrs. Harold Weston, 1981

To celebrate the last month of Made in the USA, we’ve asked Phillips staff to create acrostic poems for works in the exhibition. We’ll feature some of our favorite submissions over the next few weeks. In this post, Chief Operating Officer Sue Nichols muses on life with this view.

Harold Weston, Winds, Upper Ausable Lake
Upstate
Serenity
Abounds

Susan J. Nichols, Chief Operating Officer

What Is Amelia Thinking? Kids Edition

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Experiment Station

Over the course of the exhibition, we’ve been highlighting some of our favorite submissions to our Made in the USA in-gallery comment station. The station asks visitors to respond to Thomas Eakins‘s Miss Amelia Van Buren by answering the question, “What is Amelia Thinking?”. Below are the best of the bunch from some of our younger visitors.

What about you? If you have an idea of what might be running through her head, tweet us your submission with #MyAmericanArt.

Entrapped in Mallorca

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Experiment Station

Intersections artist Bernardi Roig inside one of his works, White Cage, coming to the Phillips this fall. Photo: Vesela Sretenovic

In preparation for Intersections artist Bernardi Roig’s exhibition at the Phillips opening in October, Senior Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art Vesela Sretenovic is in Mallorca for a studio visit and an opening at Kewenig Gallery of the artist’s work. See images from a previous visit to Roig’s studio here.

Roig with his work An illuminated head for Blinky P. (The Gun), 2010. Polyester resin, marble dust and fluorescent light. Figure life size. Courtesy Galerie Klüser, Munich. Photo: Vesela Sretenovic

Opening night of Bernardi Roig’s show at Kewenig Gallery. Photos: Vesela Sretenovic

The artist in his exhibition space. Photo: Vesela Sretenovic

Installation view Bernardi Roig Mallorca_VS

Installation view of Roig’s exhibition at Kewenig Gallery in Mallorca. Photo: Vesela Sretenovic