Phillips Offers Free Admission for 90th Anniversary Birthday Bash Nov. 5

PHILLIPS EXTENDS HOURS AND OFFERS FREE ADMISSION FOR
90TH ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY BASH ON NOVEMBER 5

On the day D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has proclaimed “Phillips Collection Day,” celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary with a day of free activities, gallery talks, and live music. Highlights include:

• Free admission to Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint

• Cupcake party favors while supplies last (10 a.m.–noon)

• Hands-on art-making inspired by Will Ryman’s outdoor sculpture of colossal pink roses (10 a.m.–2 p.m.)

• Hourly gallery talks on Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party and European Masterworks (11 a.m.–6 p.m.)

• “Happy Birthday” sing-along led by on-air talent from ABC7/WJLA-TV (noon)

• Ballet students from the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington D.C. practicing in the Degas exhibition (12:30–3 p.m.)

• Interactive self-guide to the collection by illustrator Elizabeth Graeber

• Musical performances throughout the day, featuring Parisian-inspired accordionist Manny Bobenrieth, The Capital Hearings a cappella group, Teiber Trio, Tommy Cecil Quartet, Yvonne Johnson Trio, and

• DJ Neville C.

• Cash bar with wine, beer, champagne, and light snacks (4:15–8 p.m.)

Sat., Nov. 5, 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
FREE

The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW
Metro: Dupont Circle (Q Street)