More than 100 U.S. medical schools today partner with art museums to offer guided engagement with visual art to improve apprentice physicians’ observation, communication, teamwork, and other core…

Charlottesville

Continuing to road-trip across the state, 71 miles northwest of Richmond on I-64, art lovers find themselves at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art for a…

Pueblo pottery has no equivalent in white culture or society. To Pueblo people, their pottery is functional, artistic, decorative, familial, and spiritual. It is teacher, friend, relative,…

Most people wouldn’t give a second thought to the Torah pointer they use to read and follow along with the Hebrew text. 

Known as a yad in Hebrew, the Torah pointer is commonly used in place…

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has received a major donation of Haitian art, adding to the university’s Caribbean and Africana studies resources, the museum announced on…

When the first University class was taught 200 years ago, women were not allowed to enroll. The University first allowed summer instruction for women in 1880, but did not admit women until 1970,…

The Fralin Museum of Art is presently housing over 80 Torah pointers in the “Between Hand and Scroll: Torah Pointers from the Barr Collection” exhibition on display through July 20. This…

For over three decades, textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the large-scale, labor-intensive beaded embroidery of…

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is welcoming its 90th anniversary with its first major exhibition of Judaica, a retrospective for a ground-breaking Pueblo clay artist and a…

A collection of intricate and ornate Torah pointers – some centuries old, others created just last year – have found a home at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. They’re…

“The Fralin Museum of Art marks its 90th anniversary in 2025. As we look to the next 90 years, this roster of exhibitions forecasts our future direction. With Between Hand and Scroll we showcase a…

Dear Joan, 

We never met, but when this magazine decided to organize a collection of writings honouring you on the centenary of your birth, my first thought was how much I wish I could have…

Charlottesville, Va—Today, Virginia Humanities, the state humanities council, announced more than $207,185 in grants and sponsorships to 20 nonprofit organizations.“

For 50 years, we’ve had…

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The students in the art history department’s University Museums Internships course work with museum professionals…

The Fralin Museum of Art has been awarded $125,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support “O’Powa O’Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell.” The grant marks the first award for…

The Fralin Museum of Art has been awarded $125,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support "O'Powa O'Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell." The grant marks the first award for…

Clay Barr’s husband Jay D. A. Barr had been ill for “quite a long time” when she brought him home in early 1994. “There was no more to be done, and I’m pacing around thinking this wonderful 57-…

Thanks to its use in Isaiah 56:5, the Hebrew word yad, literally “hand,” has acquired the additional meaning of “memorial.” It is thus fitting that, after her husband’s untimely death 30…

Clay Barr’s husband Jay D. A. Barr had been ill for “quite a long time” when she brought him home in early 1994. “There was no more to be done, and I’m pacing around thinking this wonderful 57-…