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January 15, 2008
Speaking of the Phillips: A coming attraction
MAN has learned that the Phillips Collection has added an exhibition to its 2008 schedule: Diebenkorn in New Mexico. The show, which was my pick for best exhibition of 2007, will be on view in Washington from June 21 to Sept. 7. Before coming to DC the show will make a previously announced stop at NYU's Grey Art Gallery from Jan. 25 through April 5. (This is extra good for me: I'd been looking forward to reviewing the San Jose presentation of show. But when no one at that museum returned three weeks worth of calls/emails, I gave up. Now I get a second chance.)
Richard Diebenkorn and the Phillips go way back. In 1944, when Diebenkorn was in the military and stationed in northern Virginia, he spent a lot of time at the Phillips, studying the collection and smoking cigarettes. The Phillips owns eight Diebenkorns and there isn't a dud among 'em.
Shown here is the St. Louis Art Museum's Albuquerque No. 4, which Joseph Pulitzer gave to the museum in 1969. It's in the show.
Related (sort of): New Phillips director-to-be Dorothy Kosinski's Q&A with MAN, part two.
Posted January 15, 2008 2:11 PM
