April 8, 2010
The 3½-acre E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden will be the heart of the museum’s campus when the VMFA expansion project is completed. The garden will include art, leisurely walkways, water features, stately trees, and flowers. The garden will partially cover a new and innovative 600-car parking deck tucked beneath a terraced, landscaped slope designed for sculpture display. The garden, which will replace a surface-parking lot, will bring part of the museum’s excellent collection and programming outside and provide memorable experiences of public art in a new environment of changing light, climate and seasons.
Article Categories: Expansion
Related Exhibitions: Fine Arts & Flowers: 2010 and Jun Kaneko
April 8, 2010
In the midst of the Great Depression, on January 16, 1936, Virginia’s political and business leaders bravely demonstrated their faith in the future and their belief in the value of art by opening the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
Article Categories: Expansion
Related Exhibitions: Modern Masters: Sean Scully and John Walker and Virginia’s Museum of Fine Arts: 75 Years of Collecting for the Commonwealth
April 7, 2010
Now entering his fourth year as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Alex Nyerges is responsible for the management and realization of Rick Mather’s ambitious master plan for the museum’s expansion and renovation.
Article Categories: Expansion
April 5, 2010
Mather is widely known for his virtuoso use of glass as a dematerialized wall and visual extension to street activity.
Article Categories: Expansion
April 5, 2010
In order to realize his vision for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, London-based architect Rick Mather formed a partnership for the VMFA expansion program with one of the leading architectural firms in Virginia, SMBW Architects.
Article Categories: Expansion
April 5, 2010
Italian Plaster Study, American Mirrored Sconce, And an Array of Additional Works Also Added
Article Categories: Acquisitions
Related Exhibitions: Aaron Siskind and Abstract Photography of the 1950s and 60s, Making History: 20th Century African American Art, and Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit
April 4, 2010
Questions and Answers about the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Article Categories: Expansion
April 2, 2010
For more than three decades, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been a leader in scholarly efforts to document and interpret architecture in Virginia.
Article Categories: Expansion
Related Exhibitions: Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown, and Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
April 2, 2010
When the doors of the expanded Virginia Museum of Fine Arts open on Saturday, 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.
Article Categories: Collections
Related Exhibitions: American Art from the McGlothlin Collection and Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit
April 2, 2010
Hankins and Anderson is the principal engineering consultant for the expansion of VMFA.
Article Categories: Expansion
