Now @ The Muscarelle
The Adjacent Possible
July 9, 2019Muscarelle Museum of Art (Sheridan & Spigel Galleries) | August 27 – September 27, 2019
This exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Mead, Professor of Art and W. Taylor Reveley Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellow, seeks to analyze how humans cogitate and process our experience when viewing works of art.
VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE: The Making of Objects of Ceremony
June 5, 2019VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE is proud to present The Making of Objects of Ceremony.
William & Mary students curated this exhibition as part of a required practicum course for Art History majors called The Curatorial Project (ARTH 331).
VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE: BUILDING ON THE LEGACY
February 11, 2019VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE is proud to present Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by renowned artists.
Created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first African American students in residence at William & Mary, Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection was part of a yearlong program of special events during the 2017-2018 academic year, which spoke to themes of parity and desegregation.
Announcing the Inaugural Exhibition for VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE
September 6, 2018The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to present the virtual exhibition “Women with Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection” in recognition of the 100 Years of Women celebration at William & Mary.
The Muscarelle in the News
Wall Street Journal Article on Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
February 16, 2017Favorable review published in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the first-ever international loan exhibition of Botticelli’s works in the U.S. (curated and organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art).
Botticelli’s Venus to Go on View in the United States for the First Time
January 24, 2017"A Venus painting by Italian master Sandro Botticelli will go on view in the United States for the first time as part of a touring exhibition featuring sixteen paintings from throughout his oeuvre." Read the full article on artnet here.
Staggering Artwork at the Muscarelle Museum of Art: Article in The Washington Post
February 25, 2015The drawings were shipped with armed guards, the travel schedule kept secret, in frames equipped with their own precise micro-climates and sensors linked to computers in Italy. Once at their destination – a small museum on a Virginia college campus – more than a thousand students lined up on a cold night for their chance to spend time, up close, with Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings.
Leonardo’s First Stop: Article in the New York Times
December 3, 2014After its extremely successful exhibition “Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti” last year, the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., is turning its attention to another Renaissance giant.
Collected Articles
November 13, 2014William & Mary News VIDEO: The Adjacent Possible, Abstract Relationships
W&M professor of art Elizabeth Mead says observers should build relationships with art over time as she discusses the Muscarelle Museum of Art exhibition “The Adjacent Possible.”
Virginia Gazette: Art meets psychology at the Muscarelle’s latest exhibition
Art is known for touching people’s hearts, but what about their brains?
Michelangelo, The Frugal Genius: Article in The Wall Street Journal
October 16, 2014Michelangelo was a notorious miser. He drew on every scrap he found around his studio, only on rare occasions beginning a drawing on a fresh sheet (typically when the sheet was intended for a patron’s eyes).
