The Phillips Collection Neighborhood Open House

Jay Gates, director of The Phillips Collection, cordially invites you to a Neighborhood Open House on Tuesday, August 2, from 600- 800 p.m. Please join us for an exclusive showing of the exhibition that The New York Times called "terrifically entertaining," East Meets West Hiroshige at The Phillips Collection. A special feature of the evening will be a guided tour with exhibition curator Sue Frank, assistant curator at the Phillips, at 630 p.m.

Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) dominated popular art in Japan for decades and inspired many 19th- and early 20th-century Western artists. To be shown in its entirety, his poetic and world-renowned set of woodblock prints, "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido," depicts stops along the fabled Tokaido Road, associated with the "floating world" of travel and the pursuit of transient pleasure. Hiroshige revolutionized the approach to these scenes by showing the lyricism of the landscape as the true subject and expressing the humor of travel.