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Comment | As the US’s 250th anniversary approaches, museums must keep pushing the American story forward

The Phillips Collection was founded amid a president’s calls for a return to “normalcy”, and today the museum is addressing a city and a country grappling with a similar dynamic

Jonathan P. Binstock
6 November 2025
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Benny Andrews's 2005 painting Trail of Tears (2005) will be featured in Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection (8 November-15 February 2026) at The Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Gift of Agnes Gund, 2019. © 2025 Estate of Benny Andrews / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY