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Article: Expanding the trail Phillips blazed; New director sees latest art fitting founder's vision.(ARTS & CULTURE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2008
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Byline: Deborah K. Dietsch, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Dorothy Kosinski, who was named director of the Phillips Collection in December, was in Washington for just a few days last month, but she already understands pork. At least the kind depicted by French artist Paul Gauguin.
"Look at the way the white curve of the fat is picked up in the curved tips of the onions," the 54-year-old curator said, marveling over "The Ham," Gauguin's 1889 still life in an upstairs gallery at the Phillips.
Once she assumes her new position in May, Ms. Kosinski, now a senior curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, no doubt will become familiar with the other kind of pork as ...