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Exhibitions, Fall 2007
Click on the exhibition title below to see dates and scheduled events. The "Read more" link under some listing provides additional information.
Exhibitions from the Collections
A Decade of Collecting This selection of gifts, purchases and bequests highlights ten years of acquisitions, representing major areas of the Museum's interests and recognizing some of the most important pieces. Sculpture from the Collection Drawn from the collection, the exhibition features work by Isamu Noguchi, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, and many others. Sponsored by Arts$. Photography from the Collection Works selected represent areas of strength within a strong and diverse collection, including Hollywood portraits, street photography, and landscape, as well as new acquisitions. Sponsored by Arts$.
What a Family! In conjunction with the Virginia Film Festival and its 2007 theme—Kin Flicks—the Museum presents works from the collection focusing on families. Sponsored by Arts$.
Arshile Gorky Featuring about 15 drawings and one painting, the exhibition explores Gorky's early influences, including Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, and Surrealism. This exhibition is made possible by the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, Acquavella Galleries, and Arts$.
William Christenberry Organized by Andrea Douglas, the Museum's curator of collections and exhibitions, in close collaboration with the artist, this traveling exhibition offers a re-evaluation of the artist's oeuvre, focusing on his drawings and Klan Room Tableau. Read more > The exhibition is made possible with the generous support of the FUNd, the Oakwood Foundation, the Glenstone Foundation, the Council for the Arts, the Arts Enhancement Fund, Barbara and Richard S. Lane, Irwin and Linda Berman, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Dr. Robert L. and Lucinda W. Bunnen, Soul of Virginia Magazine, Yvette Kraft, and additional anonymous support.
The Dresser Trunk Project Organized by William Daryl Williams, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, this traveling exhibition features 9-11 display trunks designed by architects from around the country, each of which tells a story of a place of refuge in an era of segregation. Read more > Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, Amtrak, and Arts Enhancement Funds
We inaugurate the second year of the Museum's New Media Gallery, thanks to the sponsorship of Crutchfield and the Virginia Film Festival. Films of Peter Whitehead Four counter-culture films made in the 1960s are featured. Read more > Within Our Gates African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux made this 1920 silent film as a response to D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation and to oppose any defense of the Klan and lynching. The film is shown in support of the Museum's program Forming American Identities: Our Southern Legacy and scheduled in conjunction with the colloquium on September 30, 5:30 pm, in the Museum, on “Cinematic Representations” with presenters Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor, McIntire Department of Art, and Jane Gaines, professor, Department of English, Duke University. Read more > The Short Films of Alan Berliner Berliner, whose films will be featured in this year's Virginia Film Festival, is known primarily for his experimental variations on the “home movie.” Read more > |
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