The Party Show – 5 May 2024
Francesca Fiorani (Art History) appeared on Melbourne, Australia's Triple R Independent Radio's "The Party Show" to discuss the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at THE LUME Melbourne: The Party Show — 5 May 2024
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Become Enriched in Yolngu Aboriginal Culture Through the Fralin’s “Madayin” Exhibit
A pounding voice chants rhythmically alongside a projection of waves crashing as one enters the Fralin Museum of Art.
“Figure and Fable: Aesop Through the Ages” expands on classics
Infusing the Fralin with captivating illustrations of familiar childhood tales, “Figure and Fable: Aesop Through the Ages” dives into a world of Aesop’s fables — the exhibit is a compelling collection of various authors and artists’ reimaginations of the classic fables throughout time.
“Their World As Big As They Made It: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance” keeps the vibrant era alive on Grounds
At the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, a curated collection of images, art and documents paints a picture of the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. The library’s newest exhibition brings the life and ardor of the Harlem Renaissance to Grounds.
Inside Their World: New Exhibit Connects Harlem Renaissance to Today
“Their World As Big As They Made It,” an exhibition at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, opens to the public on Wednesday. It examines the works in the period of Black artistic and intellectual activity centered in a New York neighborhood. The Harlem Renaissance began in the early 1900s as racist violence and diminishing economic opportunity pushed Black Southerners to head north in a movement known as the Great Migration.
Why Did the Rotunda’s Marble Shatter? UVA Series Explores Grounds’ Quirky History
Welcome to UVA Obscura, an unconventional historical examination of UVA’s quirks and oddities. It’s a product of UVA Communication’s Digital Strategy team, a group that steers the University’s social media channels, creates art and illustrations for UVA Today and performs other duties as needed.
UVA Art Professor Joins a Big Debate Over a Tiny Detail
A historian thinks he’s solved one of the Mona Lisa’s mysteries. University of Virginia art history professor Francesca Fiorani completely disagrees.
Prints, Plaits, and Poetry: “Women Making Books” Portrays Personal Narratives by Women Writers Through a Variety of Media
Two glass cases of women’s scrapbooks, zines and mementos line the walls of the First Floor Gallery in the University’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The exhibition, “Women Making Books,” showcases stories ranging from the 18th century to the 21st century that assert bookmaking as a source of female agency in the historically male-dominated world of literature.
The Resilience and Agency of Rural Communities, with Fotini Kondyli
A conversation with Fotini Kondyli, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, about our changing picture of rural communities in late Byzantium.
Something Borrowed - Buddhist Art at The Fralin Shows Cultural Exchanges
Remixing, riffing, playing with memes: These are artistic modes that we sometimes think of as belonging to our own time, but artmaking has involved self-conscious imitation for a lot longer, and in a lot more places—including several hundred years ago in Asia, as revealed in “Earthly Exemplars,” a small exhibition of Buddhist art now showing at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA.
Landscape and Fieldwork in a Changing Climate: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Anthropocene
The second Lindner Lecture in Art History will be Thursday, 10/27/2022 with Ömür Harmanşah, Director of the School of Art and Art History & Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk titled, "Landscape and Fieldwork in a Changing Climate: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Anthropocene" will begin at 6.30pm in 160 Campbell Hall and will be followed by a reception in the Fayerweather Lounge.
Art Supplies a Lens for Studying War, and War Supplies a Lens for Studying Art
Art is as old as war, and vice versa. In Dan Weiss’ course, students view art through this lens of conflict, combat and culture. Yavorska-Antrobius, a Ukranian artist living in Charlottesville, provided an important perspective to the seminar students.