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08/30/2026

Diego Borgsdorf’s Rewe Tapestry adopts a traditional Chilean weaving style, emblematic of pieces sold in tourist markets. The work integrates locally sourced wool roving, partially hand-dyed in a sucrose indigo vat, alongside ceramic chanchito pigs. Borgsdorf created the tapestry while researching the life and Indigenous art collection of artist Luchita Hurtado, whose estate supported the production of this artwork. Borgsdorf discovered that Hurtado and her husband Lee Mullican, while teaching at the Universidad de Chile in 1968, purchased a Mapuche rewe, or spiritual totem pole. Borgsdorf brings together tourist objects and materials tied to extraction and displacement, inviting reflection on how history, materiality, and art are interconnected.

See Borgsdorf's tapestry in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise at the Phillips 🧵 ▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/28/2026

Continuing in the tradition of mending with needle and thread, Katie O’Keefe stitches together layers of sheer fabric in works that portray an intimate picture of her healing journey. Each piece starts with a detailed drawing where the artist focuses on finding strength, beauty, and acceptance of her form. Living with an invisible illness, O’Keefe takes note of how her body has changed, and is changing, and replaces fear with fascination as she traces lines of nerve pain.

See O’Keefe's work in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition 🧵▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/27/2026

Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise closes on September 20, but that is not your last chance to see the works in this show! Most of the works from the exhibition are for sale directly through the artist—visit our website for more info ▶️ https://bit.ly/46nDU1W

The Phillips Collection is not facilitating sales nor taking any commission.

08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day! Pierre Bonnard loved his furry friends just as much as we do. 🐶

Bonnard’s Woman with Dog shows the artist’s wife, Marthe, sitting across the dinner table, holding a small brown dog in her lap in an intimate, domestic scene. Bonnard’s canine companions served as both beloved pets and as inspiration for his art. He was especially fond of dachshunds, owning several throughout his life, many sharing the name “Poucette”.

🎨 Pierre Bonnard, Woman with Dog, 1922, oil on canvas, acquired 1925; © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

08/25/2026

“An up-to-the-minute slice of what’s happening in local art.” —Washington City Paper

Read the review of Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise at The Phillips Collection ▶️ https://bit.ly/3S5aW3D

The Phillips Collection’s Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise, a special exhibit featuring 48 area artists, has a sensual, tactile throughline.

08/25/2026

One of the 60 works featured in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise will receive the People's Choice Award—cast your vote by August 30 ▶️ https://bit.ly/4xkgdUf

The winner be announced at Phillips after 5 on September 3.

08/22/2026

Celebrate the iconic works of The Phillips Collection during a special edition of Phillips after 5: Phillips Flash on September 3! Tickets ▶️ https://bit.ly/4gKxgJ7

🎨 In collaboration with Cry Baby Studios, get a flash tattoo inspired by works from the collection.
🏆 Find out who won the People's Choice Award for Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition.
🎙️ Enjoy a performance by Justin Trawick and the Common Good.
📝 Join Strictly Critical (Christian Viveros-Fauné and Blake Gopnick) for a session of art criticism.
🎧 Groove to a DJ set by DJ Stylus.
🖼️ Join a Spotlight Talk with a Phillips Educator.

08/21/2026

Abdulrahman Naanseh’s practice is rooted in Arabic calligraphy, which he uses not only as a visual tradition but as a vehicle for personal reflection and cultural critique. Originating from Syria, his work reflects the dense, often conflicting layers of religion, politics, and language that have shaped his life. Grounded in classical forms, he has developed a personal visual language shaped by the study of historical scripts, poetry, and linguistic symbolism. His calligraphic font blurs the boundary between word and image, between what is said and what is felt. Naanseh’s work becomes a meditation on the instability of meaning and the resilience of expression, a visual archive shaped by memory, exile, and the urgent need to speak.

Examine Naanseh's work in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise at The Phillips Collection ▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf

08/19/2026

Today is ! 📸

To celebrate, we’re spotlighting Charles Rumph, a DC-based photographer who specialized in abstractions of architecture and nature. The Phillips Collection was the site of Rumph’s first museum exhibition, Chambers, in 1980. Rumph worked primarily in black-and-white, doing his own printing, until experimenting with color late in his career.

In 2023, the Phillips was awarded The Charles Rumph Collection and Photography Fund from the Shirley Z. Johnson Trust. This major gift includes nearly 200 photographs and related archival materials by the donor’s late husband Charles Rumph. This gift includes support for conservation, a research fellow, and a future exhibition with an accompanying catalogue of Rumph’s photographs. Kelly Richman-Abdou, our Research Fellow, has been hard at work cataloging and curating Rumph's photographs and personal archives materials—stay tuned for announcements about the future exhibition!

📷 Charles Rumph, Church at Nambé No. 1, 1980, Gelatin silver print, 13 7/8 x 11 in., The Phillips Collection, Gift of the Shirley Z. Johnson Trust.

08/18/2026

With a background in printmaking and ceramics, Pamela Crockett creates artworks that feature richly detailed surfaces, where textures emerge through stamping, pushing, carving, scraping, wiping, displacing, and dissolving the paint. Her process involves laying down varied substances—rock salt, sand, silica desiccant, calcium chloride, beans, seeds, rice, shredded paper, string, stones, and objects culled from the recycling bin.

Crockett's work Sub-Cortical 2 is on view in Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise: The Phillips Collection Juried Exhibition ▶️ https://bit.ly/4b8rXAf