Unveiling Vesna
Phillips preparators unwrap the first of several layers protecting the work. All photos: Amy Wike Works for Vesna Pavlović‘s Intersections installation at the Phillips, Illuminated Archive, have just...
View ArticleMining the Archives
(Left) Vesna Pavlović, Untitled (Swiss Peasant art exhibition, 1957.4), (2014). Courtesy of the artist and G Fine Art (Right) Vesna Pavlović, Installation view of Untitled (Annex, Giacometti...
View ArticleA Different Experience of Space
In this video, Intersections artist Vesna Pavlović discusses her recently installed work at the Phillips, Illuminated Archive. “In any typical museum setting, we’re used to seeing artworks on walls,”...
View ArticlePhillips Flashback: Neither Rain Nor Sleet…
As I worked on an ongoing project to organize Duncan Phillips’s correspondence, I was surprised to see many letters that were sent and received on subsequent days as well as on the same day. Phillips...
View ArticlePhillips History on View: An Introduction
Head Librarian Karen Schneider taking notes on manuscripts up for consideration in the exhibition. The first month of my internship at The Phillips Collection was spent working with the Library and...
View ArticlePhillips History on View: Loss and Intimacy
Duncan and Jim Phillips as boys. See the introduction to this series here. Duncan Phillips and Jim, his older brother by two years, were quite close. Jim even waited two years to attend Yale University...
View ArticlePhillips History on View: Marjorie
Marjorie Phillips in 1969 One of my favorite photographs in the archives is of Marjorie Phillips in 1969 when she was Director of the museum installing a Hundertwasser exhibition alongside Jim...
View ArticlePhillips History on View: A Need for Arts Education
Duncan Phillips at Yale University When Duncan Phillips arrived at Yale University in 1904, he was interested in pursuing English and writing. He wrote about art during his time there, but was...
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