August 6, 2016
Kehinde Wiley was influenced early on by such portrait painters as John Singer Sargent and Barkley Hendricks, both represented in VMFA’s permanent collection. Visit today to see Wiley’s work and the earlier masters who influenced him.
Exhibitions
Kehinde Wiley: Saints & Icons
August 4, 2016
Why did Kehinde Wiley go from large-scale portraits to small icons painting? And why did he start working in stained glass? In another exclusive VMFA video, Wiley talks about his use of scale and medium.
Kehinde Wiley: Street Casting
August 3, 2016
In another exclusive VMFA video, Kehinde Wiley talks about his piece “Willem van Heythuysen”, which is in VMFA’s permanent collection! Learn about his process of street casting and referencing portraits from art history.
Kehinde Wiley: Early Work
August 2, 2016
Hear Kehinde Wiley tell the incredible story about how a piece of paper on the street forever changed his life and the direction of his art.
A Curator’s Gallery-by-Gallery Guide to Rodin
February 17, 2016
Dr. Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the European Art Department, who organized this exhibition for VMFA, points out some of the not-to-be-missed highlights in each gallery of the exhibition. Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Gallery 7 Gallery 8 Curator’s Tip I encourage all visitors to dip into the…
Nightfall: Nightlife
December 29, 2015
This post is one in a series highlighting the special exhibition Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours, which explores evocative artistic images of night, called nocturnes. The exhibition is on view through March 22, 2016, in the VMFA Works on Paper Focus Gallery. Admission is free. During the 19th and 20th centuries, rampant industrialization and…
Nightfall: Rockwell Kent’s Starry Night
November 16, 2015
This post is one in a series highlighting the special exhibition Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours, which explores evocative artistic images of night, called nocturnes. The exhibition is on view through March 22, 2016, in the VMFA Works on Paper Focus Gallery. Admission is free. Rockwell Kent’s Starry Night: What to Do at Night?…
Nightfall: Curator’s Introduction
November 16, 2015
Curator’s Introduction The firelight, the darkness and the stars: no wonder if to some of us there comes the recollection of some poet’s lines . . . morning finds the artist re-invoking to himself its mood and trying with his pencil to recapture it. Yet the problem is not alone the re-creation of those natural…
Japan’s Complex Relationship with Tattoo
July 7, 2015
VMFA submitted the following blog post about the history of Japanese tattoo to Tattoo Artist Magazine. Read “Japan’s Complex Relationship with Tattoo,” published on Jul 2, 2015. Tattoo Artist Magazine is the only tattoo-related publication created, owned, and financed by a tattoo artist, designed specifically for tattoo artists and the growing international community. The magazine’s…
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
June 5, 2015
“I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ― Oscar Wilde “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind.” ― Luther Burbank “In joy or sadness flowers…