RICHMOND, VA.- The 1970s featured the announcement of the break-up of the Beatles, the Kent State shooting, the meltdown of Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station and the $1.5 billion bailout of Chrysler Corporation. These tumultuou…
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Awards 43 Fellowships to Virginia Students and Artists
RICHMOND, VA.- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts awarded 43 fellowships to Virginia art students and professional artists in 2011-12 for a total of $258,000. During the VMFA Fellowship Program’s 71 years, the museum has awarded more than $4.4 million a…
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art Presents Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism Christianity and Islam
RICHMOND, VA.- Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, on view in the Harnett Museum of Art, from January 28 to May 20, 2011, highlights the shared pilgrimage traditions of three world religions—Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. …
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art Presents Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism Christianity and Islam
RICHMOND, VA.- Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, on view in the Harnett Museum of Art, from January 28 to May 20, 2011, highlights the shared pilgrimage traditions of three world religions—Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. …
Museum Recovers $50K Civil War Gun Stolen in 1975
RICHMOND, VA (AP).- A Civil War revolver that was stolen more than 30 years ago from the Museum of the Confederacy has turned up again. Collections Manager Catherine Wright tells WTVR-TV that the .36-caliber Spiller & Burr revolver was stolen in 1975…
Feedback: Video by Artists Opens at the University of Richmond Museums
RICHMOND, VA.- The University of Richmond Museums presents FEEDBACK: Video by Artists, on view from January 12 to March 18, 2011, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. The exhibition consists of eight videos, divided into four categories, a…
New Installation of Fluorescent Minerals Collection Opens at the University of Richmond Museums
RICHMOND, VA.- The Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, one of the University of Richmond Museums, will open the reinstallation of the permanent exhibition Fluorescent Minerals: From the Permanent Collection on January 12, 2011. This new display …
Archaeologists at Jamestown Unearth a Trove of 400-Year-Old Pipes Personalized for Patron
B>RICHMOND, VA. (AP).- Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English …
Museum of the Confederacy Opens Civil War Message, Decodes It: No Help Coming
RICHMOND, VA.- A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago. The dispatch offere…
Contemporary Photographer Sally Mann’s The Flesh and The Spirit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
RICHMOND, VA.- One of the first major presentations in the United States of the bold work of contemporary photographer Sally Mann opened at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) on November 13, 2010. Exclusive to Richmond, the exhibition will continu…