LEWES.- Planned in conjunction with the centennial of The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, this ground-breaking volume offers an unprecedented breadth of insights and inclusive narratives on the Phillips’s growing art collection from a range of voices, including artists, critics, and scholars. The publication coincides with a major 100th anniversary exhibition that highlights the museum’s acquisitions since 2000.
Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century features works across wide-ranging media by renowned artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries, including Benny Andrews, Esther Bubley, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Anselm Kiefer, Simone Leigh, and Aim Mpane. An opening essay by Dorothy Kosinski, artist conversations, thematic essays, and 200 plates with 49 object responses by notable contributors ensure this volume’s status as a lasting historical resource.
Contributions by heather ahtone, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Dominique Baqu, Tina Baum, Enrique Martnez Celaya, Adrienne L. Childs, Makeba Clay, Kate Cowcher, Jessica Stafford Davis, David C. Driskell, John Edmonds, Susan Behrends Frank, Antony Gormley, Wendy A. Grossman, Jeffreen M. Hayes, Liesbeth Heenk, Mary Jane Jacob, Fred L. Joiner, Franz W. Kaiser, Dorothy Kosinski, Lauren Kroiz, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Whitfield Lovell, Jennifer Wen Ma, Rene Maurer, Kent Mitchell Minturn, Jed Morse, Charmaine A. Nelson, Alexander Nemerov, Jeremy Ney, Bruce Nixon, Nontobeko Ntombela, Klaus Ottmann, Eliza E. Rathbone, Bridget Riley, Ellington Robinson, Bernardi Rog, Susan Rothenberg, Sean Scully, Alyson Shotz, Elsa Smithgall, Bosco Sodi, Rene Stout, Lou Stovall, Vesela Sretenović, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, and Jenna Wortham
Elsa Smithgall is senior curator at The Phillips Collection.
