March 4, 2016
Our signature series, Curators at Work, returns for its sixth installment on April 16.
February 4, 2016
February 6, 2016— April 10, 2016 From Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th-century photographic studies of animal locomotion to Richard Misrach’s contemporary chromogenic prints, Light Works explores the history of photography. Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon and many other celebrated photographers are highlighted in this exhibition. Drawn primarily from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Light Works also features works from the Muscarelle Museum of Art permanent collection as well as important loans. Photo credit: EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, Animal Locomotion, Man with a Donkey, 1887, collotype. Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Gift of Wm John Upjohn. […]
May 19, 2015
September 12, 2015 – January 17, 2016 Recent works of the teaching studio art faculty including visiting instructors and emeriti professors of The College of William & Mary are featured in Faculty Show 13. This exhibition encompasses a variety of media including ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. A long-standing collaboration between the Museum and the Department of Art & Art History, Faculty Show 13 includes works from the following artists: William Barnes, David Campbell, Linda Carey, Lewis Cohen, Suzanne Demeo, Michael Draeger, Eliot Dudik, Michael Gaynes, Kathleen Hall, Mike Jabbur, Marlene Jack, Brian Kreydatus, John Lee, Jayson Lowery, […]
May 3, 2015
May 2 – August 30, 2015 This exhibition is the culmination of the Curating, Collecting and Connoisseurship seminar taught under the tutelage of Dr. John T. Spike. Fifth in the series, students have the opportunity to step into the role of exhibition curators as they select prints and drawings from the permanent collection. The Museum serves as a laboratory for experiential undergraduate learning and, for this exhibition, students research and write the text that document the social and political context of individual works. The exhibition primarily focuses on new acquisitions and covers a broad spectrum of time periods, styles and […]
April 25, 2015
The Muscarelle Museum of Art, in its first collaboration with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary is pleased to present Matilda of Canossa and the Origins of the Renaissance. This is the first monographic exhibition in the United States ever dedicated to Matilda, one of the great leaders and women of the Middle Ages. Curated by Michèle K. Spike, noted biographer of Matilda of Canossa and adjunct professor of law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, this exhibition will be on view from February 7 to April 24, 2015. Matilda of Canossa Press Release
February 24, 2015
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to host the Haukohl Family Collection, the largest and most important private collection of Florentine Baroque paintings in the United States.
February 4, 2015
February 6, 2016 — August 21, 2016 Hiroshige’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido explores the most traveled road in old Japan with fresh eyes. This exhibition presents five distinct complete sets of Hiroshige’s The 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road never before displayed together. Centering on the fifty-five woodblock prints of Hiroshige’s famed first set, the Hoeido Tokaido (1832-1833, oban), the four additional series reveal the spectrum of Hiroshige’s visual poetry: Sanoki Tokaido (late 1830s, bound, chuban); Gyosho Tokaido (c. 1841-1842, aiban); Tsutaya Tokaido (c. 1850, bound, chuban); Upright Tokaido (1855, oban). Hiroshige’s Tokaido immerses the viewer in a panoramic […]
January 8, 2015
On loan from the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas, are nine paintings by Rockwell (1894-1978), famed for his nostalgic and patriotic depictions of 20th-century American life. The National Scouting Museum contains the largest collection of Rockwell’s Scout paintings anywhere in the world. The exhibition is dedicated to William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates ’65, who became president of the Boy Scouts of America in May 2014. It also commemorates important anniversaries for both organizations: on February 8, William & Mary was chartered in 1693 and the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910. […]
October 28, 2014
Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, this unprecedented selection of more than twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from Italian museums is the first exhibition to explore Leonardo’s philosophy of beauty as contrasted with his rival Michelangelo. Also featured will be Leonardo’s renowned Codex on the Flight of Birds, containing a hidden self-portrait at age fifty-three, which has never previously been exhibited. February 21 – April 5, 2015 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art and April 15 – June 14, 2015 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Press Releases: January 20, 2015 Press Release December […]