February 20, 2025
Twenty-four Commonwealth residents named Visual Arts Fellowship recipients Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is pleased to announce the 2025–26 recipients of its Visual Arts Fellowship awards. This year, 24 professional artists and graduate and undergraduate students have received awards — totaling nearly $160,000 — to further their artistic careers. Established…
February 19, 2025
VMFA welcomes Richmond Ballet to Leslie Cheek Theater after $5.3 million renovation Richmond, VA — With renovations to the Leslie Cheek Theater nearing completion, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Richmond Ballet formally announced that beginning March 20, 2025, the ballet company will move its repertory series, rebranded as Moving Art, to the…
February 5, 2025
Art, exhibitions and programs showcase Black artists and their contributions Richmond, VA — This month the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) celebrates Black History Month with an exciting array of exhibitions, art installations and special events honoring African American artists and community makers. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts welcomes the community to participate…
January 31, 2025
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts — one of only two U.S. venues — will open the exhibition with ¡FridaFest! Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced that tickets to the highly anticipated exhibition Frida: Beyond the Myth will go on sale February 1, 2025, and can be purchased online at www.VMFA.museum…
January 9, 2025
Chiles will advance the curatorial vision for VMFA’s decorative arts collection of more than 2,700 works Richmond, VA — Following an international search, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today the appointment of Alisa Chiles, Ph.D., as the museum’s new Sydney and Francis Lewis Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present, beginning…
November 27, 2024
Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today that Commonwealth of Virginia employees and preschool and K–12 teachers, public and private, will receive free admission to the museum’s two special exhibitions, American, born Hungary Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy and A Long Arc: Photography and the American South…
October 15, 2024
Preliminary architectural renderings re-envision VMFA after expansion, the largest in the museum’s history Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) released the first preliminary architectural design renderings of the museum’s exterior today, showing what the institution might look like after it undergoes its planned expansion and renovation project. “Both functionally and aesthetically, this…
September 25, 2024
VMFA is one of only two U.S. venues for this captivating exhibition of works by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) will open Frida: Beyond the Myth, exploring the life of one of the most beloved, yet enigmatic artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954),…
August 6, 2024
The impact of Hungarian American artists on 20th-century photography explored in VMFA’s new exhibition Richmond, VA — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy, on view at the museum from Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025.…
August 6, 2024
The comprehensive survey, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, contemplates Southern identity through photography Richmond, Virginia — The first major exhibition of Southern photography in more than 25 years, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, will be on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in…
