The new shopVMFA features our bestsellers, including exclusive selections of handcrafted jewelry, home accessories, books, children’s toys and games, and more! During the Grand Opening, VMFA members receive double their regular discount – 20% off! All proceeds benefit the museum’s programs and operations.

Explore the new installation in the Pre-Columbian and Native American art collections with Dr. Lee Anne Chesterfield, Interim Deputy Director for Art & Education and Assistant Curator of Ancient American Art. This talk delves into the ways that the Maya, Nazca, and Hopi represented the forces of the universe in their art.

Join us for an evening with artist, author, and arts commentator William Dunlap as he discusses his artistic process. Dunlap’s debut collection of stories, words, and pictures, titled Short Mean Fiction, combines the written word with visual art to bring his tales to life. The artist’s job “is to make something out of nothing,” says Dunlap.

A book signing will follow the talk from 7 pm-7:45 pm in the Claiborne Robertson Room.

Memorial Foundation for Children Teaching Gallery, through June 30, 2016

Explore the art of the bicycle in ArtCycle, a participatory exhibition in VMFA’s Memorial Foundation for Children Teaching Gallery, located in the MWV Art Education Center.  Discover how artists have been inspired by the bicycle and movement by engaging in this interactive space. Visitors can take a virtual tour on a bike through works in VMFA’s collection, experiment with creating objects out of bike inspired parts, and take a selfie at our bicycle mural #VMFAartcycle.

 

Generously sponsored in part by

Winner of the 2015 Art in Literature:
Mary Lynn Kotz Award

Hear New York Times bestselling author Susan Vreeland speak about her latest novel, Lisette’s List, winner of the 2015 Art in Literature prize, awarded jointly by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Virginia. Set in the beautiful Provençal town of Rouillion, France, Lisette’s List tells the story of three artists, three centuries, and three wars and explores the power of art in helping us comprehend and make sense of the world. Vreeland will discuss how art has transformed her life and inspired her historical fiction, which includes Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Luncheon of the Boating Party, among other works. Reception and book signing in the Marble Hall follows the talk.

This Thursday and Friday, mention DATE NIGHT at the Visitor Services Desk to enjoy Buy One, Get One Free tickets for Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style!

Offer valid at the Visitor Services Desk only, not available online.

 

Extremely popular in the repertoire of modern Japanese tattooing are large-scale images of fierce guardians taken from the pantheon of Japanese esoteric Buddhism. These so-called myō-ō figures serve to protect the wearer’s body just as they protect the Buddhist doctrine itself. Inspired by such imagery in Japanese Tattoo: Perseverance, Art, and Tradition, Dr. John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, examines representations of related wrathful protector deities from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in VMFA’s South Asian Art Galleries.

Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times
(2004; 77 min; In French with English Subtitles)

A fully realized portrait of Yves Saint Laurent emerges from extensive interviews at different stages of his career, archival film footage and photos, and frank commentary by his closest associates and contemporaries. This poignant and moving biography of the man who re-imagined women’s fashion is an excellent companion piece to the Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style experience.

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In celebration of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent’s birthday, the VMFA has a present for you!

August 1st take an extra 10% off one item in the YSL exhibition Shop!

Must show exhibition ticket stub or receipt to receive discount. Offer is not valid for the Main shop. Discount cannot be combined with other offers or promotions. VMFA Members will receive an additional 10% off one item in addition to the 10% member discount

 

Screening Southern Music: Heart o’ the Hills (1919; 87 min.)
This year, the theme of the VCU Southern Film Festival is “Exploring Musical Traditions & Stereotypes in Popular Film.” The film at VMFA is Heart o’ the Hills, is a silent film exploring family tensions and the exploitation of coal resources in the highlands of Kentucky, and starring the most renowned actress of early Hollywood cinema, Mary Pickford.

Virginia band The Hot Seats accompanies the film with their particular blend of Appalachian, old-time bluegrass ragtime, and the swagger of good old rock and roll. A panel discussion will follow.

Founded in 2010 to explore how the distinctiveness of the South has been portrayed onscreen, the Southern Film Festival brings together films and those involved in their making with constructive commentary. Learn more.