Jonathan P. Binstock is an American art historian, curator and museum administrator, and the director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., since 2023.
[2] Binstock served as assistant curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1990s, where he organized a major exhibition on Andy Warhol.
[2] He later told Artnet News that he had been hired on the condition that he begin organizing a retrospective exhibition for artist Sam Gilliam, which he curated in 2005.
[2] He told the Democrat and Chronicle shortly after his hiring that he planned to leverage his connections from his time as an art adviser to help raise money to sustain the museum, which he viewed as his primary role as director.
[2] He helped secure donations to renovate an exhibition space, and commissioned work by artist Isaac Julien.