Spring is just arriving, but the arts are in full bloom at the University of Virginia.The Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds has become a centerpiece of the University; the new state-of-the-art Ruth…
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The drawings were shipped with armed guards, the travel schedule kept secret, in frames equipped with their own precise micro-climates and sensors linked to computers in Italy. Once at their…
WVTF
Lucian Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud, who encouraged him to become an artist. The younger Freud left Germany with his family when Hitler came to power and settled in England, where he…
VOGUE
After nearly six decades in the business, only the rarest piece of news gives William Acquavella pause. The artist Lucian Freud ringing up the normally unflappable dealer to say, “Bill, the…
Cville Weekly
Imagine entering a cave-like studio, its floor spotted with rags and walls textured with years of paint flicked off a loaded brush. You’re naked when you climb onto a small, sheet-covered bed, fully…
ARTFORUM
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has given the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art six prints by Andy Warhol, reports Newsplex. The foundation also gifted the Fralin Museum,…
Newsplex.com
The University of Virginia's Fralin Museum of Art has been given six works by famed artist Andy Warhol that were donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2009, the foundation…
UVA Today
“Art is what you can get away with,” the late American pop artist Andy Warhol once said. But it also may be what you can give away. As part of Warhol’s legacy, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the…
Charlottesville Newsplex UVA Today
Lucian Freud, one of the most respected artists of the postwar period, was widely celebrated for the powerful and moving portraits he made throughout a career of over seven decades. Created in an era…
artdaily.org
The majority of his works were of people, often shown nude, with an intense concentration on the texture and color of flesh. His oeuvre includes images of men, women, fellow artists, family members,…
UVA Today
The majority of his works were of people, often shown nude, with an intense concentration on the texture and color of flesh. His oeuvre includes images of men, women, fellow artists, family members,…
BLOUIN ART INFO
Acquavella Galleries have collaborated with UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art for an exhibition that opens on Friday titled “Lucian Freud: Etchings.” Often touted as an oil painter, Freud also produced a…
Charlottesville Newsplex UVA Today
A new program at UVA's Fralin Museum of Art helps teach medical students diagnostic skills through artistic analysis. Jordan Love, Academic Curator of the museum, joins us to chat about the "…
The Cavalier Daily
Inspired by Paul Klee’s statement of “a line is a dot that went for a walk,” “What Is A Line?,” the Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, is scheduled to open next year, and will continue the…
The Cavalier Daily
The University is increasing investment in arts around Grounds in an attempt to make art more relevant to the University student experience. The Campaign for the University of Virginia has raised $…
WUVAONLINE.COM
The Fralin Museum of Art has invited visitors to the Museum’s website to select works that will be shown in the summer 2015 exhibition What is a Line? derived from the Fralin’s collection.…
Cville Weekly
"The Lyrical Line," which is on display for four months at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, features work from two of the most innovative printmakers of the early 20th century…
TIME
“Harlem Gang Leader” introduced Gordon Parks to America. LIFE magazine, which published the photo essay in its Nov. 1, 1948, issue, had every reason to be proud of the man it called “a young Negro…
UVA Today
In a 1948 issue of Life magazine, a photo essay entitled "Harlem Gang Leader" introduced Gordon Parks to the world. Although Parks had been a professional photographer for nearly a decade, his name…
The Cavalier Daily
"Art doesn’t only serve one purpose," said Jordan Love, the Academic Curator of the University’s Fralin Art Museum. This much was clear to both Love and Assoc. Medical Education Prof. Dr. Marcia Day…
UVA Today
A new exhibit at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia offers a unique entry into the world of early modern India through an array of colorful paintings. Realms of Earth and Sky:…
WTJU Soundboard
UVA's Fralin Museum of Art Curator of Exhibitions Jennifer Farrell and Education intern and docent Pia von Barby discuss the summer Postwar British Prints exhibit and happenings at the Fralin with…
The New Criterion
Was Joseph Cornell a surrealist? He has been described as a "lone star within the surrealist constellation," a turn of phrase that might have pleased the avid stargazer of Flushing, New York, but one…
WTOP News
The University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art has new leadership. The museum announced Tuesday that John Casteen, president emeritus of the university, will chair the museum’s advisory board.…
UVA Today
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has announced that John T. Casteen III, president emeritus of the University of Virginia, and his wife, Betsy, have agreed to join the museum’s…