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Permanent Collection
On Tuesday through Friday, admission to the permanent collection is by donation; contributions are gladly accepted.

On weekends, all visitors pay the special exhibition fee. When there is no special exhibition, weekend admission fees to the permanent collection are those specified at right.

Special Exhibitions
Special exhibitions are a signature element at the Phillips, offering new perspectives on the work of modern and contemporary artists. Admission fees are listed at right.

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Admission


Special Exhibitions
Adults - $12
62 and over - $10
Students with valid ID - $10
18 and under - free

Permanent Collection (Weekends, Between Special Exhibitions)
When there is no special exhibition, the Phillips offers these reduced weekend admissions. Otherwise, all weekend visitors pay the special exhibition fees.
Adults - $10
62 and over - $8
Students with valid ID - $8
18 and under - free  


Special Exhibitions
EventDescriptionReserve
Richard Pousette-Dart/Robert Ryman Exhibitions

Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings
June 5–September 12, 2010
In the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created a series of paintings nearly without paint, using graphite and oil on canvas to produce works both complex and spare. Read more...

Robert Ryman: Variations & Improvisations
June 5–September 12, 2010
Ryman is an American painter best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. This exhibition presents Ryman's ongoing examination of painting, including the effects of light and shadow and the painting's relation to surrounding space. Read more...

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TruthBeauty

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
October 9, 2010–January 9, 2011
Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism expanded the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Pictorialist photographers produced some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium and influenced subsequent developments in modernist photography. In conjunction, the Phillips displays recently acquired book illustrations by the innovative American photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. Coburn and the Photographic Portfolio features selections from Coburn’s innovative work in the celebrated portfolios London (1909) and New York (1910). Read more...

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