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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 “…
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…
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…
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…