Washington, DC is a great museum town. During my dozen or so trips over the years I have yet to see all the Smithsonian institutions so I never felt the need to venture far from The Mall for my art ...

Bernardi Roig, “Herr Mauroner” (2008) (all images courtesy of the artist) The main building of the Phillips Collection, the oldest modern art museum in America, is a sprawling, neo-Georgian affair, ...

The angle of a doorframe, an open window, a table laid with fruit and teacup, a dog perched on a checkered tablecloth—all these moments of everyday life, heightened with color and shadow, are ...

The Phillips Collection sold three works and raised $13 million to buy contemporary art, but the decision has led to rancor within the 104-year-old institution. By Robin Pogrebin Photography and ...

The Phillips Collection sold three works and raised $13 million to buy contemporary art, but the decision has led to rancor within the 104-year-old institution. By Robin Pogrebin As a financial matter ...

Installation view of Tobi Kahn exhibit (with Diebenkorn in the next room), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. In 1985, The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted an exhibition of contemporary ...

Sam Gilliam, the renowned painter who revolutionized abstraction and whose work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, died at his D.C. home June 25. The ...