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Oil Paint Can Be Rebellious Too: 'The Eight'

Image courtesy of the Phillips Collection THIS WEEK: In 1908, eight American artists staged a group show, a protest against the rigid hierarchy that existed in the art world. They were known simply as "The Eight," and their paintings — and the fact that they never had to submit them to experts to win a place in a show, but rather set up their own — embodied something great and terrible about the American spirit.

A hundred years later, the Phillips Collection is honoring them by ... putting them up in a museum now that they've been judged by experts to be good enough. Heh. Joke's on you, art boys.

» Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW; through Feb. 1, free-$12; 202-387-2151. (Dupont Circle)

Image courtesy of the Phillips Collection

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