Thank You For a Fantastic 95th Year!

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Experiment Station

We set out in January to kick off the countdown to our centennial, and what a year of celebrations it’s been!

Our 95th anniversary year by the numbers:

1,100 pound Karel Appel sculpture acquired
39 Phillips Music concerts; 10,389 attendees
16 exhibitions
9,000 members
12 Phillips after 5 events; 7,000 attendees
10,090 studentsparticipated in PrismK.12 tours
65,400 social media followers; 8.3M impressions; 82 ArtGrams shared
90,000 students, teachers, and parents
200 public tours
27,121 cups of coffee served at Tryst at the Phillips
150,902 museum visitors

THANK YOU!

September #Phillips95: Photo or Painting?

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Experiment Station

Things aren’t always as they appear. This month’s #Phillips95 challenge focuses on slow and careful looking. Do you think the below work, a recent acquisition for the museum’s permanent collection, is a painting or a photograph? Comment on this blog post or any of our social media posts with your guess to be entered into a drawing to win a Phillips prize pack (including two tickets to the museum and goodies from the museum shop!). We’ll select a winner from the correct answers tomorrow, Friday, September 30. We’ll also reveal the artist and title.

Guess the medium! Painting or photo?

Update: If you guessed photograph, you are correct! This work, Peaches and Blackberries (2008) is by artist Sharon Core and is a chromogenic print. Congrats to our winners Livia N. and Jill K. Check back next month for more chances to win prizes.

July #Phillips95 Challenge: Dream Big

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Experiment Station

Marc Chagall, The Dream, 1939. Gouache on paper, 20 9/16 x 26 3/4 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1942

This month’s #Phillips95 challenge celebrates Marc Chagall. Chagall was known for his highly expressionist and colorful paintings that combined elements of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism. He saw his work as “not the dream of one people but of all humanity.” While scholars have written endless volumes on him, we’re looking to you to simplify things!

YOUR CHALLENGE: When you look at The Dream, what is the one word that comes to mind? Comment on this blog post or any of our social media posts with one word you think best encapsulates the painting and be entered into a drawing to win a Phillips prize pack (including two tickets to the museum and goodies from the museum shop!).