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Fine Arts and Flowers 2020
A spectacular museum-wide exhibition of floral designs inspired by works in the VMFA collection. Presented by The Council of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with floral designs by The Garden Club of...
View ArticleAnnabeth Rosen: Fables
For over two decades, Annabeth Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics. Formally trained in ceramics, yet heavily influenced by painterly gesture, Rosen expanded her practice to include...
View ArticleAnsel Adams: Compositions in Nature
Behold the drama and splendor of the American landscape as seen through the lens of photographer Ansel Adams. More than 70 photographs spanning over five decades present the breathtaking vistas,...
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The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, investigates the aesthetic impulses of early 20th-century Black culture that...
View ArticleVirginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art
VMFA presents Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art. Explore the artistic legacy of an iconic natural wonder. Depicted and celebrated for centuries, the Natural Bridge is the Shenandoah...
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VMFA Youth & Family Studio Programs: Faculty & Staff Art Show 2021
VMFA’s Youth and Family Studio Programs employs a team of more than thirty professional artists and educators to lead classes for students from the ages of five to seventeen. These studio instructors...
View ArticleMan Ray: The Paris Years
Man Ray: The Paris Years focuses on the innovative portrait photographs that the American artist Man Ray made in the French capital between 1921 and 1940. In the early decades of the 20th century,...
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Sir Frank Short: Out of the Shadows
This installation shines a spotlight on a printmaker whose lifetime achievements have been underappreciated in the years since his death. Born in the industrial heart of England, Short initially...
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REQUIEMS: Reframing History through the Photographic Lens
In this installation, photographers Dawoud Bey, Marilyn Nance, and Carrie Mae Weems offer visual requiems marking some of the turbulent, socially defining moments of the mid-20th century. Through the...
View ArticleIt’s Egypt! Interactive Gallery Exhibition
Ancient Egyptians believed that everything they knew and experienced was part of a cycle, from the annual flood of the Nile River that nourished their land to the daily rising and setting of the sun....
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Early Childhood Annual Student Exhibition
VMFA is pleased to present works of art selected from our Early Childhood Education programs. Each work on display was created in one of our many programs designed to reach children ages three months...
View ArticleTsherin Sherpa: Spirits
Explore the captivating and sublime paintings and sculpture of Nepalese-born Tibetan American contemporary artist Tsherin Sherpa. VMFA presents the global artist’s first museum exhibition as a focused...
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Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France
Rediscover painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who left the United States as expatriates and returned as some of the greatest influencers to shape the course of American art. Whistler to...
View ArticleStoried Strings: The Guitar in American Art
Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art is the first exhibition to explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from the early 19th century to the present day. Featuring 125 works of art, as...
View ArticleWords Matter
Featuring 10 works by contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition underscores the richness and diversity of the contemporary Indigenous experience told through the medium of printmaking. The...
View ArticleRaoul Dufy: Drawn to Royal Ascot
Featuring more than two dozen works on paper by the important Fauvist painter and quintessential artist of vibrant outdoor social events, this delightful assembly of drawings by Raoul Dufy charmingly...
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Early Childhood Annual Student Exhibition
VMFA is pleased to present works of art selected from our Early Childhood Education programs. Each work on display was created in one of our many programs designed t reach children ages three months...
View ArticleIsaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass is an immersive and poetic meditation on the great 19th-century abolitionist. The poignant 10-screen film installation collapses time and space to bridge...
View ArticleA Powerful Influence: Early Photographs of African Americans from the...
It is evident that the great cheapness and universality of pictures must exert a powerful, though silent, influence upon the ideas and sentiment of present and future generations. —Frederick...
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Eight Views of Omi: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Ito Shinsui
Ito Shinsui was a pioneer of modern Japanese prints known as shin-hanga (new prints), a traditional woodblock printmaking technique that emphasized collaboration between the artist, publisher, block...
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