Near the end of his preseason press conference at John Paul Jones Arena last week, University of Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett went out of his way to laud former players Malcolm…

Modest little college museums? Maybe they exist somewhere, on quiet campuses across the nation, but there are also magnificent university-affiliated institutions like these. And in terms of this…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents Unexpected O'Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings, on view Oct. 19, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019. This rare…

Ask people to describe a Georgia O’Keeffe painting, and most will mention prominent flowers, striking colors, New Mexico landscapes and cows’ skulls. But before she made a name for herself on a…

Famed artist Georgia O’Keeffe studied at the University of Virginia every summer from 1912 to 1916, taking courses designed for art teachers and teaching some classes of her own. When she arrived,…

The artist Georgia O’Keeffe is remembered as a painter of Southwestern landscapes and flowers, but it turns out her early works were done at the University of Virginia where she studied and taught. …

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents “Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings.” The exhibition, which opens on October 19, will be on view through…

This spring, the artist and activist organisation For Freedoms embarked on what it called the “largest creative collaboration in US history”—the 50 State Initiative, which aims to produce public art…

Here are some of artnet News’s highlights of museum shows opening across the United States as we kick off a new season: 28. “Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings” at the…

Fifty-two crowdfunding campaigns for a US-wide public art project that aims to bring together art and civic engagement are launching today (4 June). If successful, the non-partisan platform For…

Doug Harnsberger first saw the sketch in 2012 while searching through Thomas Jefferson’s papers: a thumbnail drawing of a circle with spokes radiating outwards. For 200 years, the sketch was…

This fall, thousands of billboard and lawn signs will be erected all over the country in advance of the midterms, bearing names of politicians up for election. But a new campaign by the organization…

If you’d like to bring more art into your life but you’ve always felt intimidated by gallery settings, it’s time to head for the great indoors. Through Sept. 30, the Fralin Museum of Art at the…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now, May 18-Sept. 30, 2018. The exhibition looks at the inverse of…

EXHIBITIONS In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior, 1950-Now May 18-September 30, 2018 Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginiahttp://uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu Landscape painting, a common…

Standing in The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, surrounded by paintings from across the 19th and 20th centuries, you notice something about the passage of time in the museum’s current exhibition, “…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Thomas Jefferson was never a trained architect. In the American Colonies in the 1760s, there were none to study under. But, with pen and ink and newly invented graph paper,…

Thomas Jefferson was never a trained architect. In the American Colonies in the 1760s, there were none to study under. But, with pen and ink and newly invented graph paper, Jefferson sketched and…

Picasso loved cars, especially American cars, and Samuel Kootz, the resourceful and entrepreneurial New York art dealer, loved Picasso. In 1947 Kootz made a trade with Picasso: an Oldsmobile…

PURCHASE, NY.- From Motherwell to Hofmann: The Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1945–1966 is the first exhibition to examine the critical role Kootz (1898–1982) played in establishing modern American art as an…

Evidence of Thomas Jefferson’s architectural ability abounds in Charlottesville, a city that sits in the shadow of Jefferson’s home, Monticello, and proudly features his Academical Village –…

From fabricators to mummy conservators to private collection managers, the art world is full of fascinating jobs you may not have realized even existed. In artnet News’s column “My I Got My Art Job…

Charlottesville is a much-lauded destination for history buffs, foodies and University of Virginia fans. Thanks to the continued efforts of UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, it is also a…

Thomas Jefferson believed with more certainty than any of the other Founding Fathers that it was architecture that provided the ideal way for new nation-builders to express greatness. “From the…