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Art History

‘The Surprising Story of Furcy Madeleine’: New Exhibition in Shannon Library Explores the Contradictions of Slavery and Freedom During the Age of Revolution

n 1990, American historian Sue Peabody was researching her dissertation on enslaved peoples’ pre-revolutionary freedom lawsuits in France when she came upon an intriguing story. In 1817 on Île Bourbon (now Réunion), a French-colonized island in the Indian Ocean, a 31-year-old enslaved man named Furcy Madeleine brought legal proceedings before the Saint-Denis District Court against his master Joseph Lory. Furcy’s suit contested his status as a slave and claimed his “ingenuity” — his freedom of birth.

https://library.virginia.edu/news/2025/surprising-story-furcy-madeleine-new-exhibition-shannon-library-explores-contradictions?mtm_campaign=em&mtm_kwd=sub

A close-up photo of a hand using a small paintbrush to paint a dotted design on a paper, using red, white, blue, and black.
Art History

In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project

In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project presents the work of internationally renowned artists from the Spinifex Arts Project, a collective of Pitjantjatjara men and women in Tjuntjuntjara, 800 miles east of Perth in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia. Spinifex Arts Project began in 1997 when the artists realized that painting would be an instrumental tool in lobbying the Western Australian government to recognize their ongoing connection to their sacred Country so they could return to their homelands.

https://kluge-ruhe.org/all-exhibitions/in-the-beginning-paintings-by-senior-artists-of-the-spinifex-arts-project/

Orange letters with the title of the exhibition are in the center of the image, and the border is filled with small pictures of the individual artists.
Art History

"Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales" Opens August 29th

Ayuujk (Mixe), Nahua, Maya-Ch’ol, Ñuu Savi (Mixtec), Otomí, Maya-Kaqchikel, P’urhépecha, Diidxazà, Maya-Tsotsil, Zapotec, and Sarhua are but a few of the ancestral lineages that collide in Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales. This project brings together the knowledge and aesthetic achievements of individuals Whose ancestral lineage predates Spanish colonialism and who center millennia of inherited epistemologies within their contemporary practices.

https://www.curatorlove.com/uvafesv

A photo of five African American women stand together, holding various instruments and feather decorations.
Art History

Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship

Mid Atlantic Arts partners with the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and South Arts on the Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships. This program honors and promotes the understanding of Black Appalachian storytelling traditions that embody the history, heritage, and culture of African Americans in the region. The National Association of Black Storytellers awards one Fellowship per year in each of the six eligible states: Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

https://www.midatlanticarts.org/opportunity/black-appalachian-storytellers-fellowship/

A painting with a beige background, with black, red, and mustard colored brush strokes haphazardly painted across the canvas.
Art History

The Fralin Marks Joan Mitchell’s Centennial With a Restoration

In “Joan Mitchell: Uncovering 100 Years” at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, there’s a 1960 photo of the painter emphatically gesturing while standing in front of a large-scale canvas by Adolph Gottlieb. Mitchell seems comfortable in conversation with her art-world friends, hinting at the relationship she had with mid-20th-century galleries and their denizens.

https://c-ville.com/the-fralin-marks-joan-mitchells-centennial-with-a-restoration/

Three images of special collections exhibitions. All three show glass display cases with various artifacts and wall texts inside.
Art History

UVA Library Special Collections: 2025 Exhibitions Overview

The Library’s exhibitions program allows us to serve the UVA community and beyond as an evolving space for discovery and celebration of our shared cultural heritage, by showcasing to the public the rare and unique materials available to the University’s faculty, students, and visiting researchers in a controlled environment, and celebrating them in creative and edifying ways. Exhibitions also allow us to take advantage of partnerships with other institutions and guest curators to bring fresh insight and new treasures to our galleries.

https://library.virginia.edu/news/2025/uva-library-special-collections-2025-exhibitions-overview

Photo of David. J. Getsy in a suit standing outside infront of a brick building.
Art History

Accolades: Art Historian Earns Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

David J. Getsy, the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, recognizing his groundbreaking research at the intersection of art history, queer studies, trans studies and performance studies. Getsy’s work has significantly contributed to understanding how non-normative genders and sexualities have shaped art and cultural history.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/accolades-art-historian-earns-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowship

Francesca Fiorani

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

https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-party-show/episodes/29176-the-party-show-5-may-2024

An old, faded book is propped open onto two pages: on the left, an illustration of a man standing on a pedestal; on the right, text that reads "Fables of Aesop and others. Newly done into English with an application to each fable. Illustrated with CUTTS. garrit anniles Ex re Fabellas — hor. The Fifth Edition. LONDON: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, and J. Watts."

“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.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/11/figure-and-fable-aesop-through-the-ages-expands-on-classics?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

Two people in profile view stand before a banner that reads "Wallace Thurman" with a quote from the writer.

“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.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/09/their-world-as-big-as-they-made-it-looking-back-at-the-harlem-renaissance-keeps-the-vibrant-era-alive-on-grounds

A man stands adjacent to a yellow sign with a woman on it that reads "Their World As Big As They Made It: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance."

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/inside-their-world-new-exhibit-connects-harlem-renaissance-today