Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Acquisitions round-up: Louvre acquires Jean-Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries after fundraising campaign
Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Contested Congolese sculpture returns home, temporarily
The Balot sculpture will be in the Democratic Republic of Congo for six months, while a video of it shows simultaneously at the Venice Biennale
US museum repatriates 44 antiquities to Egypt, Italy and Turkey
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cooperated in an investigation that determined each of the 44 objects had been stolen, looted or trafficked
As the world strums: an exhibition examines the unique appeal and political power of guitars
The show “Stories Strings” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts brings together images of guitars in art from the 19th century to today, plus classic examples of the instruments themselves
An historic appointment: Lynette L. Allston is the first Indigenous person to serve as board president of a major US museum
Allston had previously advised the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in devising its land acknowledgement agreement
Bouncing back: the US museums that have regained the visitors lost to Covid closures
While the pandemic has devastated the visitor numbers of many big-name museums, some medium-sized institutions are already thriving
Museums plan for a busy year despite Covid-19 uncertainty
Will 2022 see a return to normal for exhibition schedules? Or will surging cases mean plans have to be torn up again? We asked museum directors and head curators how confident they are for the year ahead
'Paris's glowing milieu spills onto every corner': Virginia show theatrically tells the story of Man Ray's fruitful time in the City of Lights
Exhibition pays as much attention to the personalities that sat for Man Ray’s portraits as it does his photographic innovations
Exhibition celebrates a spirited collective of African-American photographers
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts chronicles achievements and inner debates of the Kamoinge Workshop
Climate protest designs, an authentic Banksy fake and radical collection updates: the year in acquisitions
Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019