UMD and the Phillips: A Continuing Conversation

Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, shares insight on the value of the UMD and Phillips Collection partnership for her students. Recently, the class I teach at the University of Maryland on art history and the museum world hosted a guest speaker from The Phillips Collection: Senior Curator of […]

I Miss William Merritt Chase’s Hide and Seek

The Phillips Collection galleries have been dark and empty and our staff and visitors have been missing our beloved collection. In this series we will highlight artworks that the Phillips staff have really been missing lately. Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Vesela Sretenović on why she misses William Merritt Chase’s Hide and Seek […]

In Conversation with Los Carpinteros (Part II)

Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez) is an internationally acclaimed Cuban artist collective best known for merging architecture, sculpture, design, and drawing. Through two films and a group of sculptural portraits, Los Carpinteros’s exhibiton Cuba Va!, produces a social landscape of Cuba’s modern history that has been at once utopian and dystopian. As part of […]