The statue, entitled "Rumors Of War," is African American artist Kehinde Wiley's response to the Confederate monuments in Richmond and throughout the South. Artist Kehinde Wiley’s monumental statue, “Rumors of War,” was unveiled in Times Square on Friday to an...
VMFA’s Awaken Takes Visitors On A Path To Enlightenment
Awaken, presented by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, takes visitors on a spiritual journey through the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Richmond’s very own Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is currently presenting Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward...
The VMFA’s ‘Congo Masks’ Exhibit Leaves Out Much-Needed Historical Context
It was the Congolese people, and their struggle, that shaped the art of the Congo during the colonial period. And it is the context of these people and this struggle that is missing from the exhibit at the VMFA. In 1876, King Leopold II of Belgium founded a private...
VMFA Repatriates Painting Stolen by Nazis
The Board of Trustees governing the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today that they will be repatriating a painting from their collection that was looted by top Nazi Reich official Herman Göring in 1940. The painting, Madonna and Child Enthroned with...
VMFA Acquires 34 Works From Atlanta’s Souls Grown Deep Foundation
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has added 34 works from prominent African American painters, sculptors, and other artists to its collection, recently acquired from the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation as part of a gift/purchase program to broaden the...
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