Head Librarian Karen Schneider and Chief Preparator Shelly Wischhusen install the new Reading Room materials. This selection focuses on Duncan Phillips’s journals, including accounts of his travels, plans for his museum, and perspectives on his ever-changing and growing collection.
This weekend the Denver Art Museum opens Becoming Van Gogh, an exhibition that explores the inspirations and influences which made van Gogh, well, van Gogh. You can read more about the evolution of this remarkable curatorial feat, which involves loans from over 60 public and private collections around the world, in a Wall Street Journal […]
Early in the movie The Artist, the audience is clear on silent film heartthrob George Valentin’s self-image. On his way out of his house, he pauses by a dazzling life-sized portrait of himself in top-hat and tails, smiles, and waves to the painting. Immediately, my mind jumped to a very similar painting in The Phillips […]
