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VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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The Dirt: A review of “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse”

By UVA Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History Grace Elizabeth Hale. This is a review of “The Dirty South” at the VMFA where it originated and hung until September 6, 2021. The show is now on view at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, through February 6, 2022, and images in this feature are courtesy of that museum. Later, it will travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, March 12–July 25, 2022; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, September 2022–February 2023. Please note that the installations will vary in each location.

https://www.southerncultures.org/article/the-dirt/

Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu Cover
Visual Art

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book and Virtual Portal With Australian Ambassador

Much of Kluge-Ruhe’s collection of 2200 objects has never been published. In November of 2021, Kluge-Ruhe launched a comprehensive catalog and virtual resource to accompany the exhibition Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, which is on view at Kluge-Ruhe through February 2023. Ambassador Sinodinos and University of Virginia President Jim Ryan released the publication during a reception at the museum.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-launches-book-and-virtual-portal-with-australian-ambassador

Henry F. Skerritt, Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at Kluge-Ruhe.
Visual Art

Mellon Grant Revolutionizes Indigenous Studies at the University of Virginia

In 2016, UVA Art History Professor Francesca Fiorani, then also serving as Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, led an effort to revolutionize indigenous studies at the University of Virginia, spearheading a successful grant proposal that would ultimately bring in $815,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/mellon-grant-revolutionizes-indigenous-studies-at-the-university-of-virginia