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06/06/2026
Want to relive your visit to Miró and the United States? Check out our summer reading list based on your favorite part of the special exhibition (and come see it again before it closes on July 5, of course)! 📚
Fundació Joan Miró
06/05/2026
This weekend is Bank of America's Museums on Us weekend! Show your Bank of America debit or credit card and a photo ID to get free admission to the Phillips. Learn more ▶️ https://bit.ly/3BpbTLk
📸 Guest in the galleries with Bradley Walker Tomlin's No. 8. Photo: AK Blythe.
06/03/2026
"My diasporic experience, and the very labeling of being 'East African Asian' means that I had grown up with...the necessity of performing multiple positions. I inhabited many worlds: q***r, trans and straight; black, South Asian and white; and all kinds of assimilating, oppositional, alternative, and 'marginalized' groups."—Al-An deSouza (formerly known as Allan deSouza), from their book How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change
These photographs by deSouza (b. 1958) were made in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series for their exhibition at the Phillips. The Migration Series tracks a journey and a movement toward a better life. deSouza focused on that narrative and their own history of migration—their family’s move from South Asia to Kenya, and their journey from Kenya, to England, to the United States—creating a series of photographs that explore themes of diaspora and colonization.
🎨 Al-An deSouza (formerly known as Allan deSouza), Future, 2011, Chromogenic print, Purchase, The Hereward Lester Cooke Memorial Fund, 2014; No Entry, 2011, Chromogenic print, Purchase, The Hereward Lester Cooke Memorial Fund, 2014; Pressure, 2011, Chromogenic print, Purchase, The Hereward Lester Cooke Memorial Fund, 2014; Crossing, 2011, Chromogenic print, Purchase, The Hereward Lester Cooke Memorial Fund, 2014.
"The making of the video took a couple of years, and had several iterations before its final form in Brain Storm. I would have no idea at the time that this work would propel me on a decade-long investigation into Chinese ink." —Jennifer Wen Ma
Jennifer Wen Ma (b. 1973, Beijing, China, lives and works in New York and Beijing) works in a variety of media including installation, drawing, video, public art, design, performance, and theater. Engaging both Eastern and Western art, old tradition and new technology, she creates multi-sensorial, community-engaged artworks. Brain Storm is a single-channel video showing a man and a horse crossing a stormy landscape. The piece alludes to an inner journey, or a brainstorm, unpredictable, uneven, and moody. In 2009, as part of her Intersections project at the Phillips, Ma reconfigured Brain Storm, originally commissioned in a three-channel version for Guggenheim Bilbao, for the smaller, more intimate space of the Phillips, adding an audio component—the sound of breath blown through lips—that reinforces the atmospheric quality of the piece.
Her work Brain Storm is on view in our new Imagination Gallery, located on the second floor of the Phillips House. Look closely at art and create your own imaginative work!
📽️ Jennifer Wen Ma, Brain Storm, 2009, Video, The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions, 2014.
How did Joan Punyet Miró, art historian and grandson of Joan Miró, and Alexander S. C. Rower, president of the Calder Foundation and grandson of Alexander Calder meet each other?
See their grandfathers's work in Miró and the United States, on view at The Phillips Collection ✨
📽️ Excerpt from our Keynote Conversation "Miro, Calder, and Modern Art." Originally recorded March 19, 2026.
Through Sunday, May 31, one of our galleries is infused with music through a partnership with JS Audio.
The playlist—co-curated by Phillips Collection Director of Music Jenny Lin and JS Audio Co-owner Dave Kennedy—is inspired by the landscapes of American modernist John Marin on view in the gallery. Marin’s colorful, abstract images range from the tranquil Black River Valley to bustling Bryant Square. The musical selections invite visitors to experience the gallery through sight and sound, suggesting the varied voices of America: the modern rhythms of Aaron Copland, the theatrical brilliance of Leonard Bernstein, the earthly vastness of John Luther Adams, and the intimate lyricism of Bill Evans.
Come listen, slow down, and enjoy a shared environment where music and visual art coexist.
05/25/2026
The Phillips Collection is proud to be a Blue Star Museum, offering free admission to military personnel, veterans, and their families Memorial Day through Labor Day (September 7, 2026). Learn more ▶️ https://bit.ly/3RWVLpu
Please note that the museum is closed on Mondays, including Memorial Day.
🎨 Paul Dougherty, Storm Voices (detail), 1912, Oil on canvas, Acquired 1912.
05/21/2026
Celebrate pride at Phillips after 5 on June 4 with a fabulous evening of drag, drinks, music, art, and more! Tickets ▶️ https://bit.ly/43inJl4
✨ Be dazzled by a performance by Vagenesis, Empress Emeritus de Ardeur.
🎭 Enjoy a live puppet show with Penny Pancakes.
📖 Join us for Adult Storytime with Dr. Torcher (Limited capacity to 30 seats. Sign up starts at 6 pm, first come, first served)
🎶 Singer-songwriter Be Steadwell performs in the Music Room.
🛼 As you arrive, be greeted by Anja Dick on roller skates!
💜 Participate in a special, limited reservation QTBIPOC Soirée. Advance reservation required through Lavender Evolutions
🎧 DJ Duchess from Eaton Radio Workshop will spin a special Pride themed set.
🌟 Customize celebration headbands and sparkling beaded phone charms to bring to Pride festivities.
🍹 Bread Furst specials: lobster and crab rolls in the House galleries; wine, beer, Aperol Spritz, and Orange Crush in the cafe.
💬 Enjoy Spotlight Talks led by Phillips Educators.
Sponsored by Stratus Firm.
📸 Vagenesis at Phillips after 5. Photo: AK Blythe.
Thank you to all performers and concert-goers for Phillips Music’s 85th Season! What a remarkable year of artistry, discovery, and connection 🎶
📽️ Trio Céleste on March 15, 2026 performing Paul Schoenfield’s piano trio Café Music. Video courtesy of The Phillips Collection.
05/15/2026
“There is very little inactive, empty space in the world. . . The world is an intensely interlocked, densely active cell, super-cell, if you want to call it that.”—Alfonso Ossorio
In 1950, Alfonso Ossorio’s (b. 1916, Manila, Philippines–d. 1990, New York, New York) work achieved a breakthrough with his experimental wax-resist process.
While living in his birth country of the Philippines to execute a mural commission, Ossorio developed and refined his intensive sgraffito technique of applying wax, black ink, and watercolor in intricate overlapping patterns. By scratching the surface, the artist exposed intermingled veils of color.
Number 14, 1953, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, epitomizes the artist’s dynamic, free-flowing practice that drew inspiration from the radical experiments of his close friends and Long Island neighbors, Jackson Po***ck and Lee Krasner, as well as the abstract compositions of Joan Miró.
See Number 14, 1953 on view through July 5, 2026, in Miró and the United States at The Phillips Collection.
🎨 Alfonso Ossorio, Number 14, 1953, 1953, Ink and wax on board, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase 55.8. Photo courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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