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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- The Great Hall at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been reinstalled with a focus on the 17th-century Age of Magnificence and a feeling of drama that is appropriate for the art of the period, says Dr. Mitchell Merling, the museum's Paul Mellon Curator and head of the Department of European Art. Included in the reinstallation are significant works by what Merling calls some of
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Eye Level (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2004-2006, mixed-media installation, Seattle Art Museum. Photo by Paul Macapia, 2007, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Dion placed a log within a greenhouse where visitors are encouraged to study the funguses, insects,...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- Ashley Kistler, whose career in galleries began 25 years ago at Virginia Commonwealth University, has returned to the university to take over as the new director of the VCUarts Anderson Gallery. Kistler most recently served as curator for nine years at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where she helped the facility's exhibition space develop into one of the
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greylocknews (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Williamstown, MA - David Park Curry, senior curator of decorative arts, American painting, and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, will present the lecture "In Praise of Shadows" on Sunday, September 7, 3 pm, at the Sterling and Francine...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- As the nation prepares to vote in national, state and local races this fall, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is spotlighting an iconic American painting, George Caleb Bingham's The County Election. The painting will be on view at VMFA Oct. 11 through Dec. 28. The 1851-52 oil on canvas, on loan from the Saint Louis Art Museum which is the largest repository of Bingham's art will...
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Some Have Hats (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Last night the Dems yelled "American Dream" about eleventy-bazillion times per minute. They want EVERYONE to have a chance to achieve the American Dream. So do I. I am the epitome of the American Dream. I grew up in a...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- In 1983, a group of Richmond-based artists and teachers began organizing collective exhibitions and projects with the intention of introducing the expressive possibilities of various printmaking media to a broader audience. More than 30 artists now make up the group known as One/Off, a name that emphasizes a shared interest in innovative approaches to printmaking. The
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- French artist Edgar Degas' first ballerina painting, the monumental Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet La Source,' is now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ballerinas were a subject that was to preoccupy the artist for the remainder of his
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Nashville, TN -- Yesterday, Cybergrass reported that Ralph Stanley was being honored with Virginia's Governor's Award for the Arts . Mountain music patriarch Ralph Stanley will be presented the Governor's Award for the Arts Sept. 17 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. The 81-year-old singer, banjoist and songwriter is the only musician among the 10 winners announced Aug. 5 by Virginia...
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Tuesday, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine formally announced the recipients for the 2008 Governor's Awards for the Arts. The ten recipients who were selected from over 360 nominanees, include artists, arts organizations and supporters of the arts. Award winners will be honored by Kaine at a ceremony at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on September 17. ...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
RICHMOND, VA - French artist Edgar Degas’ first ballerina painting, the monumental “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source,’” is now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source’” will remain on view at VMFA through Nov. 2.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
RICHMOND, VA - This loan reunites two great masterpieces by the Italian late-Baroque painter Paolo de' Matteis: VMFA’s own “Adoration of the Shepherds” and the St. Louis Art Museum’s “Annunciation.” Originally commissioned as a pair by the Duchess of Laurenzano, a celebrated Neapolitan patroness of the arts, these glorious examples of religious painting have not been exhibited together in recent times....
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Richmond, VA - The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for reinstalling and reinterpreting its collection of historical American art —from painting, sculpture and works on paper to the decorative arts of furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. The largest amount of the permanent-collection gallery space in a new wing—approximately 11,200 square feet—will...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
RICHMOND.- "Speed," the third of three Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions in a special statewide outreach initiative, will open in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia Art Museum May 10 and continue through July 13. "All over the world and throughout history, speed and motion in art can mean much more than just going fast," says Sandra Rusak, one of the exhibition's two curators and...
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Tomorrow the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, USA, opens an interesting "concept" exhibition: Speed , which looks at how artists from different cultures depict speed. One of the exhibits is Stephen Fox's beautiful painting Roadside (1990). The artist seems more concerned with capturing reflections and the quality of failing light at dusk than he does with speed. A long photographic exposure...
