Selections: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Virginia Museums's Handbook Series)
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Can a chair be a ravishingly beautiful, fascinating and revolutionary object as well as a place to sit? That’s what art specialists at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art say...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a lineup of exhibitions that will begin when the museum opens its new $150-million James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing May 1, 2010. "American Art from the McGlothlin Collection": This exhibition of more than 70 paintings, works on paper and sculptures - dating from the antebellum to the modern periods - is drawn from one of...
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I'm off to Richmond Virginia today to go to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and attend the reopening of the Lewis galleries. No posting for me today, sorry!
The Epi-Log (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Way back in January, Epi-log readers were invited to throw in their two cents and suggest a name for the new, upscale restaurant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Museum writer Don Dale explained at the time: "The goal is to have a one-word name, something simple, creative, and evocative, ideally with references to the museum, art, or the environment." Well, you posted 36 comments,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
RICHMOND, VA.- In a state capital best known for its historic landmarks, passersby will soon encounter three brightly lit floors of art and activity through the glass curtain-wall of the James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts . The sleek new building re-orients VMFA's main entrance to the street for the first time in decades as part of a $150 million expansion...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
PARIS.- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges, in Paris today for a preview of one of the most significant exhibitions ever mounted of works by the master of American glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany, called the show “dazzling.” The exhibition opens to the public at the Musée du Luxembourg Wednesday, Sept. 16, and continues through Jan. 10. It will then travel to the Montreal...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
The name Tiffany is synonymous with the finest of jewelry and a visit to an exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum devoted to Louis Comfort Tiffany is like standing inside a jewel box _ without a jewel in sight.
Illicit Cultural Property (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
"The income we have generated through increased business is superior to any income we could generate from selling the collection... Attracting even one individual client can cover the entire cost of lending a turnkey exhibition." So says Rena DeSisto, head of "global arts marketing" for Bank of America in a piece by Robin Pogrebin for the NYT . I take it as another sign that art...
edward_ winkleman (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Robin Pogrebin has penned an in-depth look in the New York Times at the growing trend of cash-strapped museums presenting exhibitions curated by corporations from their own collections. Called "turnkey exhibitions," they offer small or mid-sized museums the opportunity to present high-impact shows they could never afford on their own. There are of course, some who object to this practice:...
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
At the start of the summer, Ryan McGinness took to the site of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to oversee and speak regarding his upcoming work for the museum. McGinness covers aspects of his piece including the different approach he has taken as well as a feeling that this collection will be a benchmark. [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
RICHMOND, VA. When the doors of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts open on May 1, the first work of art that visitors will see is “Art History is Not Linear (VMFA),” a Ryan McGinness painting commissioned by the museum. The painting, which will be installed in the entry concourse of the new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing, will serve as an introduction to the expanded museum...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
The 200+ pieces of the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection - including works by Kandinsky, Nolde and Kirchner, among others - have been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond through a gift-purchase agreement....
Buttermilk & Molasses (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has just doubled the number of paintings I will go out of my way to view when they reopen next spring. Katherine Calos at the Times-Dispatch has details: A major family collection of German...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
RICHMOND, VA.- One of the finest remaining refugee collections of German Expressionist art has a new home – at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection includes works assembled by the couple in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1905 and 1925, the most creative years of German Expressionism. No state funds were spent by the museum. VMFA used donor funds restricted to...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
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