March 15, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today their receipt of a significant gift from longtime patrons James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin. With a total collective value of nearly $60 million, the donation includes a substantial contribution to VMFA’s expansion campaign, which will culminate in a second major wing at the…
March 3, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to announce that VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century is kicking off 2022 with a new exhibition, Revealing and Obscuring Identity: Portraits from the Permanent Collection. This exciting exhibition of paintings, photographs and prints from the museum’s permanent collection explores…
February 24, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today that the highly anticipated exhibition Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France will be on view at the museum from April 16, 2022 to July 31, 2022. The exhibition, which made its debut at the Denver Art Museum, focuses on a group of…
February 23, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced that Bank of America is the National Tour Sponsor for the highly anticipated exhibition Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. The exhibition, which focuses on a group of aspiring 19th- and early 20th-century artists who left the United States to train abroad and…
February 18, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Arts (VMFA) announced today that Commonwealth of Virginia employees and preschool and K–12 teachers (public and private) can receive free admission to the exhibition Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits on view at the museum from February 19, 2022 to October 16, 2022. Active-duty military and their immediate families can also…
February 15, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) recently acquired Portrait of an African Man, a painting by French artist Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). “We are very excited to have this exemplary painting by Géricault — the masterful artist behind some of the most recognized works from early 19th-century French art — in the…
January 4, 2022
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits, the first solo museum exhibition by the Nepalese-born Tibetan American contemporary artist. On view from February 19, 2022 to October 16, 2022, Spirits is a focused retrospective of Sherpa’s captivating and sublime works of paintings and sculpture. “Visitors to VMFA may…
November 25, 2021
Richmond, Virginia — The holidays are a great time to get together with family and friends at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and this season the museum is offering special combination tickets to see two critically acclaimed photography exhibitions, Ansel Adams: Compositions in Nature and Man Ray: The Paris Years. Between November 25,…
November 22, 2021
Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) recently acquired Forsythia and Pussy Willows Begin Spring (1970), a painting by African American artist Alma Thomas (1891–1978). “We are delighted that Forsythia and Pussy Willows Begin Spring has joined VMFA’s Modern and Contemporary art holdings,” said Alex Nyerges, VMFA’s Director and CEO. “Alma Thomas…
November 15, 2021
Richmond, Virginia — Governor Ralph Northam announced today that Commonwealth of Virginia employees and preschool and K–12 teachers (public and private) can receive free admission to the groundbreaking exhibition Man Ray: The Paris Years on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) now through February 21, 2022. Active-duty military and their immediate families…
