January 14, 2016
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. Many of the prints in Nightfall focus on responses…
January 14, 2016
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. Nightfall includes two scenes of divine apparitions: William Strang’s…
January 13, 2016
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. Nighttime, a period in which darkness and drowsiness often…
December 17, 2015
French Horse Exhibition Seminar Professors Jeffrey Allison (VMFA Paul Mellon Collection Educator), Dr. Mitchell Merling (VMFA Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art), and Richard Waller (Director of Museums, University of Richmond) wish to congratulate their students and also to thank them for their participation in this exciting project, which has garnered…
December 17, 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. Nighttime acts, for many, as a sphere in which…
December 9, 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. Craig McPherson’s mezzotint Yankee Stadium at Night (1983), on…
December 9, 2015
The Richmond Times Dispatch had a wonderful write up on our Rodin:Evolution of a Genius opening. The show is part retrospective, part glimpse into the world Rodin created, figuratively and literally, in his Paris studio. The seven galleries, taking the entire special exhibition space on the lowest level of the museum, are designed to evoke a…
November 25, 2015
VMFA is pleased to announce that our Beyond the Walls Mobile App has been awarded third place in the National Association for Interpretation’s 2015 Interpretive Media Award Competition, Digital Media category. The Beyond the Walls app and interactive website was designed to make Chinese art and culture accessible to the public and to feature objects in VMFA’s East…
November 24, 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. The English printmaker and architect Frederick Landseer Griggs (1876–1938)…
September 25, 2015
Thank you everyone for your feedback and making this possible! “Historic and Artistic wonders to be seen” So much to see in this well maintained museum. I could use another day or two to fully comprehend all there is to offer here Well worth the visit. “Better than expected – a must see” Great…
