Oct 9, 2009 Writer and critic Adam Gopnik explores how myths and anecdotes about artists and artwork affect the way art is perceived. Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has won both the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and the National Magazine Award for Essay.

Duncan Phillips Lectures

Adam Gopnik

The Duncan Phillips Lectures are given by distinguished artists, historians, and critics, whose presentations cover a broad range of aesthetic concerns. The lecture series was started in 1987 by Laughlin Phillips (director of the museum from 1972 to 1992) in honor of his father, Duncan Phillips, the founder of The Phillips Collection.

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