The University of Virginia has long provided a stage for the arts, and 2017 brought a full list of blockbusters.
There was October’s epic Bicentennial Launch Celebration – one of the biggest arts…
News
Current News Highlighting The Fralin
C-VILLE Weekly
It’s a bit chilly in the air-conditioned exhibition room at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, but the temperature isn’t what’s giving Rebecca Schoenthal goosebumps. It’s the art.
Specifically, it’s…
envision
Carol Angle, M.D., has always made it her mission to solve difficult problems. She spent 45 years at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as a pediatrician, nephrologist, and toxicologist.…
Crozet Gazette
Between August 1 and November 10, almost 4,000 area students will visit the Fralin Museum of Art at U.Va. for the annual literacy competition, now in its 31st year, called Writer’s Eye. Using a…
C-VILLE Weekly | Fall Arts Preview
In January, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia welcomed a director and chief curator, Matthew McLendon, formerly with Tate Britain in London, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at…
UVA Today
In 1921, Samuel Kootz graduated from the University of Virginia with a law degree. He went on to become one of the 20th century’s most famous American art dealers.
Kootz, who died in 1982, is perhaps…
artdaily.org
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The first exhibition to examine the critical role of art dealer Samuel Kootz (1898-1982) in the establishment of modern American art as an international force debuted Aug. 25 at…
The Art Newspaper
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville joins a growing number of institutions and galleries holding exhibitions about the careers of art dealers.
Today, 25 August…
BLOUIN ARTINFO
The exhibition titled “Dealer's Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945-1966” will soon be on view at The Fralin Museum of Art, U.Va., Albemarle County, Virginia.
The exhibition examines the role of…
ARTFIXdaily
Dealer's Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966 will be the first exhibition that examines the critical role Kootz (1898–1982) played in establishing modern American art as an international force…
Cavalier Daily
Recognizable by the organic-looking, stainless steel sculpture titled “Oriforme” that sits by its front doors, The Fralin Museum of Art is a gem of variety.
“The University museum is the natural…
Charlottesville Tomorrow
Describe your nonprofit's mission.The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia promotes visual literacy as part of a broader, comprehensive education for all and seeks to enhance its…
C-VILLE Weekly
The planning of our annual Power Issue always gives us pause in the arts section. Is an administrator or an artist powerful, or are they a conduit for the evocative grace of emotion that art produces…
C-VILLE Weekly
When Maximilian Schele De Vere arrived in Scott Nolley’s art conservation studio in Richmond, he was in rough shape.
“To the uneducated eye, it looked like a total loss,” says Nolley, who has been an…
WTJU
Jean Lancaster is the collections manager and curator of The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibit titled “Collect, Care, Conserve, Curate: The Life of the Art Object”.
Host: Kirsten HemrichEditors…
UVA Today
For years, the painting was stowed away, first in the attic of Old Cabell Hall and then in new art storage at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Its subject, a young man with a…
ART & DESIGN
SARASOTA, Fla. — On a recent Wednesday evening, as rock music poured through the manicured gardens of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art here, a line of young people waited to see the artist…
The Daily Progress | Pulse
Tucked away in an unassuming and still unadorned office, the new director and chief curator of the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art plots the future, working to connect not just…
C-VILLE Weekly
It’s a busy, blustery Tuesday on Grounds. Outside The Fralin Museum of Art, UVA students rush by in droves, pulling overcoats tight against the wind. Inside, I stand in darkness staring at craters on…
WVTF | NPR
Matthew McLendon is the newest director and chief curator for the University of Virginia's art museum. McLendon began as director of The Fralin Museum of Art in January.
When you think of the…
Augusta Free Press
The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA announced the winners of Writer’s Eye 2016, the 30th anniversary of the Museum’s annual literary competition challenging writers of all ages to create original works…
Pulse | The Daily Progress
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has announced the winners of Writer’s Eye 2016, the 30th-anniversary edition of the museum’s annual literary competition. Winners will be…
UVA Today
Matthew McLendon’s curatorial career has taken him all over the world, from studies in Florence, Italy and a stint working at London’s famed Tate Britain Museum, to his recent six-year tenure at The…
Painters' Table
Ann Gale: Portraits is on view at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia from September 30, 2016—February 12, 2017. “Ann Gale: Portraits” - at the Fralin Museum (University of…
The Daily Progress
For most people, it would be difficult to imagine even vaguely what it might take for Death itself to be stunned by the carnage of a battlefield.
That’s the premise of the 1919 etching “Death Awed”…