C-VILLE Weekly

A love triangle plays out in All is Apathetic in Love & War, an immersive opera from Mexican American composer Nathan Felix that utilizes space, movement, and…

The Cavalier Daily

Stepping foot onto the second floor of The Fralin Museum of Art, one crosses the threshold between the stress of everyday life and the fluid, expressive world of abstract art. 

This art…

Hyperallergic

Niro was artist in residence at The Fralin in 2017. The museum recently acquired a print of her famous The Rebel photograph. Essay by Adriana Greci Green, curator of Indigenous Arts of the…

C-VILLE Weekly

Art conservator Scott Nolley is breathing new life into “Untitled,” American artist Joan Mitchell’s seminal painting at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA—and you can see it happen live. Nolley, who…

Hyperallergic

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Indian Market, the largest and longest-running Native art event in the United States, has obvious benefits for participating artists. They can showcase their works, enter the…

UVAToday

When Frankie Mananzan landed a job at the esteemed Sotheby’s auction house after graduating from the University of Virginia in 2021, you might forgive her for feeling a little daunted. After all,…

NBC29

Educators gathered for a workshop at The Fralin Museum of Art.

“I think one of the ways that teachers can care for themselves is like reigniting their love of learning and finding the…

artdaily.com

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia explores abstract artists’ experimental use of paint in Processing Abstraction, on view through Dec. 31. The exhibition demonstrates the…

UVAToday

If you’re looking for art at the University of Virginia, you probably already know about The Fralin Museum of Art, the exhibit spaces at the Rotunda, the Albert and Shirley Small Special…

C-Ville Weekly

A pair of shows on view at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia shine a spotlight on arts, culture, and the very existence of two groups of Indigenous people in North and Central…

artdaily.com

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Look Three Ways: Maya Painted Pottery is on view through Dec. 31 at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia alongside three other exhibitions. The…

UVAToday

The empty red dresses spun in the wind where they hung from hooks along Culbreth Road. Their skirts flared with the breeze. Each one represented a missing or murdered Indigenous woman, girl or “…

Getaway Mavens

The Fralin is a dynamic, community-integrated college art museum, with the vibe of a much larger institution. One of its signature programs is the creative “Writer’s Eye,” developed for 3rd…

The Daily Progress

To a new American middle class in the 1850s with disposable income for pleasure travel and a blossoming network of railroads — not to mention the artists who enticed them with exquisitely detailed…

UVA Today

Matthew McLendon, J. Sanford Miller Family Director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, will leave at the end of the month to become director and CEO of…

The Cavalier Daily
“Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography,” the latest exhibit at the University’s Fralin Museum of Art, reimagines popular feminine figures like Disney princesses and…
The Daily Progress
Draped in pearls that reflect the luminosity of their skin, the young subjects in Atlanta photographer Tokie Rome-Taylor’s images pose with family heirlooms and other meaningful objects as they evoke…
artdaily.com
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents a new exhibition featuring artists that utilize portraiture, satire, pop culture references and advertising…
CBS19
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has four new exhibits opening this Saturday. The new exhibits are called, Power Play: Reimagining…
UVA Today
The shadow boxes each contain a few items – a broken toy or a red rubber ball, a blue and white pottery shard or a row of tiny hooks, a seashell or a stone, tossed in a bed of blue sand or set with…
artdaily.com
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), one of America’s most important and enigmatic artists, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia…
Culpeper Star Exponent
The New York-based Henry Luce Foundation—named after and established by the founder of Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated magazines—has awarded the Fralin Museum a $250,000 grant that will…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
[ ... ] Reconnecting to Native communities And now the news: The New York-based Henry Luce Foundation — named after and established by the founder of Time, Fortune, Life and Sports Illustrated…
The Roanoke Times
A $250,000 grant given to an institution bearing the name of a prominent Roanoke family will help to give those of us who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history…
Artnet News
This spring, Matthew McLendon, the director of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, taught a class on a largely shadowy subject: museum collecting. Along with sections on…