News Highlights
The Flat Hat: A Home for the Arts, Muscarelle Museum Celebrates 40 Years
Monday, Aug. 21, the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art launched an exhibit at the Williamsburg Regional Library’s Stryker Center to celebrate 40 years since the museum’s founding in 1983.
W&M News: Did Michelangelo paint himself onto the Sistine Chapel?
Adriano Marinazzo, curator of special projects at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, recently made headlines across the art world for a new theory about Michelangelo and his famous work “The Creation of Adam.”
Wall Street Journal: Is That a Secret Michelangelo Selfie at the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo might have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam.
W&M News: An Artful Groundbreaking
On a chilly Friday this November, more than 200 members of the William & Mary community celebrated the formal groundbreaking of The Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts, which will house the expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art on the Williamsburg campus.
W&M News: Numerous steps go into diligently, cataloging, packing Muscarelle Museum of Art collection
A veritable parade of paintings, sculptures, papers and objects is passing through a rigorous process as experts at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art document and pack its collection in preparation for storage. The Muscarelle will temporarily close in early 2023 for expansion and renovation.
The Flat Hat: Why the Muscarelle Museum of Art is Closing
…the institution is set for a temporary closure in the wake of plans to transform the museum into something bigger and better: the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts is a thirty-five million dollar, privately funded expansion to the Muscarelle, adding halls, offices, galleries, and so much more to the large empty space next to Boswell hall.
W&M News: Art history students get hands-on curatorial experience at W&M’s Muscarelle Museum of Art
Students curating a museum exhibition at William & Mary get the full experience. This includes choosing artwork, writing accompanying text and deciding on placement in the gallery — all while working with the on-campus Muscarelle Museum of Art’s collection, galleries and curatorial staff.
Daily Press: World Focus — Engaging People in the Arts
Steve Prince, the director of engagement at Muscarelle Museum of Art…
Veer Magazine: Self-Taught Artists Spark Creative Imagination at Muscarelle Exhibition
The need to create has long been a fascinating, somewhat mysterious, aspect of human nature. Perhaps this drive is nowhere more evident than in the work of self-trained artists. Spark of Imagination, currently on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, explores the impulse to create through new acquisitions to their permanent collection as well as special loans.
The Flat Hat: First Impression of Impressionist Exhibition
Saturday, Feb. 13 marks the opening of “The Private Impressionist,” the Muscarelle Museum of Art’s exhibition on Edgar Degas.
Daily Press: More than 50 Degas works on display
William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art is set to open its new exhibit, “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist”…
WY-Daily: Muscarelle Museum of Art to Present New Exhibition on French Impressionist Edgar Degas
The new exhibition, which will be on view from Feb 12 through May 29, features drawings, prints, photographs, monotypes and more from a single private collection.
WVEC-13 News: William & Mary’s Museum of Art to Expand in 2022
The Muscarelle Museum of Art will open its new facility in 2024.
Virginia Gazette: Design for Muscarelle Museum expansion unveiled
The expansion to the building will be called the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts and is set to open by 2024, just in time for their 40th anniversary.
William & Mary News: Muscarelle director unveils details of museum expansion
An architect’s rendering (shows) the design for the newly expanded and renovated Muscarelle Musem of Art at The Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts at William & Mary.
The Flat Hat: Muscarelle Hosts Lectures Featuring Indigenous Artists and their Work
Tuesday, Nov. 16 though Wednesday, Nov. 17, married visual artists Cara and Diego Romero visited the College of William and Mary for a series of talks, sponsored by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, in which they discussed their work.
The Flat Hat: Muscarelle Museum of Art Looks Toward Expansion
The College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art is set for expansion.
Virginia Gazette: Art exhibit reflecting life during COVID-19 debuts at Stryker Center
This project is a partnership between Williamsburg Regional Library, William & Mary Libraries, the Muscarelle Museum of Art, and CultureFix VA, a local arts organization, according to a Friday news release.
Virginia Gazette/Daily Press: Muscarelle expansion moves closer to reality
The long awaited renovation and expansion project for the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary is rapidly moving toward reality.
The College of William & Mary did not have to look very far to find a new director for the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art. David Brashear was already in the building.
William & Mary News: David Brashear named director of W&M’s Muscarelle Museum of Art
David Brashear was named director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary, university officials announced Thursday.
Virginia Gazette: Muscarelle’s latest exhibitions include American artists, photography
The College of William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art has two new exhibitions featuring photography and American artists.
William & Mary News VIDEO: At the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Prince interprets Prince
W&M professor of English Hermine Pinson reads a poem interpreting Steve Prince’s ‘Allegory of an Old Woman in the Upper Room.’
William & Mary News VIDEO: At the Muscarelle Museum of Art with McLendon, Pinson and James ’22
Jacquelyn McLendon, W&M professor of English, emeritus, and author of “Building on the Legacy: African Americans at William & Mary,’ was a special guest at a Muscarelle Museum of Art event in conjunction with the exhibition “1619/2019.”
Fully honoring the diverse history of colonial America, is the 1619/2019 exhibition at the Muscarelle Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Walking into the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, the first pieces you come upon are three woodcuts. They show black bodies being overtaken by waves and consumed by sea creatures. These images are of slaves after being thrown overboard by slave traders on the trip to America…
WYDaily: The Muscarelle opens new exhibit to highlight slavery and forced migration
The Muscarelle Museum is opening a new exhibition highlighting a variety of media and techniques from Native and African American artists that address the complexity of slavery and forced migration.
Before taking the helm of MoMA, Glenn Lowry was the first director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He oversaw the construction of the institution…
William & Mary News: Fine Art and Hard Science Converge in New Course
This fall, the Muscarelle Museum of Art will serve as both an exhibit space and laboratory for a new interdisciplinary course that blends art and science.
Finding a common thread between two topics that have seemingly no involvement with one another may seem difficult to accomplish, but at the Muscarelle Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, “The Adjacent Possible,” art and neuroscience meet in order to create an art collection that stimulates the mind and piques interest in the meaning of the artwork.
Virginia Living: The Adjacent Possible
A new exhibition about the experience of creating or viewing works of art.
William & 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.”
William & Mary News: A bountiful harvest
The Muscarelle Museum of Art will host the exhibition “The Adjacent Possible” from Aug. 27 through Sept. 27.
Virginia Gazette (and Daily Press): Art meets psychology at the Muscarelle’s latest exhibition
Art is known for touching people’s hearts, but what about their brains? This is the question posed in the Muscarelle Museum of Art’s latest exhibition The Adjacent Possible.
Daily Press: Painting became impetus for building Muscarelle Museum
“White Flower,” the Georgia O’Keeffe painting given to the Department of Fine Arts at the College of William and Mary in 1938, became the impetus, 40 years later, for the creation of the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art.
One of America’s most heralded and significant 20th century artists spent parts of 1903-09 in Williamsburg after her family moved here from Wisconsin. She returned in 1938 to be ceremoniously acclaimed by the College of William and Mary with an honorary degree and an exhibit of her work, the first outside of New York. The artist was Georgia O’Keeffe.
William & Mary News VIDEO: Hanging the exhibition “Objects of Ceremony”
W&M students involved in the Curatorial Project under the direction of Alan Braddock, professor of art history and American studies, curate the exhibition Objects of Ceremony: Effervescence, Decay, and the Everyday at the Muscarelle Museum of Art.
WYDaily: Muscarelle Museum reopens as staff prepares for a new facility
In 2002, David Brashear sent his first memo about the future of the Muscarelle Museum facility. After 17 years, Brashear, now the museum’s interim director, is leading the next step in that direction.
Virginia Gazette: Muscarelle to reopen April 5; interim director to oversee change
One of David Brashear’s first jobs as interim director of the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art will be to reopen it.
Virginia Gazette: The Muscarelle Explores Legacy of Nazi Germany’s Art Theft
During the party’s reign, Nazi Germany committed massive art theft across Europe. While more than 70 years ago, the effects of those crimes are still felt today. “Muscarelle Explorations: Art Repatriation” will address the cultural impact art theft by the Nazi’s has had through a series of lectures and movie screenings that will take place at the Muscarelle Museum of Art and other locations on the College of William and Mary campus.
William & Mary News: William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum will Feature a Full Slate this Spring
New exhibitions, events and programming are planned at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art this spring.
William & Mary News: New Director of Engagement Joins Muscarelle
Steve Prince’s past projects already have left an imprint on William & Mary. But the artist and teacher will be making an even more indelible mark after joining the Muscarelle Museum of Art in the fall as its first director of engagement and distinguished artist in residence.
Virginia Gazette: Muscarelle Director to Step Down at End of Calendar Year
Aaron De Groft will step down as the Muscarelle’s director at the end of the calendar year.
Virginia Gazette: Steve Prince Bringing the Muscarelle to the People
“I believe this job allows me to be more my fullest self,” Prince said. “What I mean by that is I am an educator, I’ve done that the bulk of my career, but I’m also an artist — but I don’t just make things for my own gratification. The things I make speak about the human condition, those things that are going on societally.”
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary and Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, the college’s main performing arts complex, will soon close in preparation for renovation.
Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will close in May in preparation for renovation work.
Virginia Gazette: Muscarelle readies final exhibition before renovation
The Muscarelle Museum of Art opens two new exhibitions spanning centuries and styles Saturday. “In the Light of Caravaggio” and “Women with Vision” mark the institution’s final offerings before it closes in May for two years of renovations alongside the adjacent Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall.
As students gathered in the Muscarelle Museum of Art Saturday, Feb. 10 there were two exhibits opening. One, “Women with Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection,” kicks off the College of William and Mary’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of women in residence.
The Flat Hat: Muscarelle Displays Caravaggio-Style Paintings as a Last Exhibition Before Renovations
Saturday evening, the Muscarelle Museum of Art was abuzz with over 600 students attending “A Divine Evening with Rembrandt.” This event marked the opening of two exhibitions, “Women With Vision: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection” and “In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums.” The latter displays 16 paintings by Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, including Rembrandt, who were greatly influenced by the rugged realist art of Caravaggio’s Rome.
WYDaily: Muscarelle to show two new exhibits on ‘Women with Vision,’ and Dutch, Flemish ‘masters’
Attention art lovers, the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary is opening two new exhibitions in February.
William & Mary News: Architect Announced for Muscarelle Expansion
Pelli Clarke Pelli of New Haven, Connecticut, has been selected as the architectural firm that will design a planned state-of-the-art facility called The Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts, which will include an expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art.
WCVE Public Radio: Botticelli Feature with Audio
In this segment, Peter Solomon speaks with the museum’s chief curator and assistant director, John Spike.
Richmond Times Dispatch: Art Exhibit Transforms Williamsburg into Florence
The show may be the most excellent art exhibit ever staged in the commonwealth.
…only a small number of museums own a few works by him…That is why “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine…” at the Muscarelle Museum of Art here is so special.
Christian Science Monitor: Botticelli Work Comes to the US for the First Time
For the first time, one of only two life-size nude paintings of a solitary Venus will be on display in the United States as the centerpiece of a new exhibition on Sandro Botticelli, which will be mounted by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary from Feb. 11 to April 5.
Artsy: How This Tiny Museum in Virginia Lands Major Shows of Botticelli and Michelangelo
When news broke that an unprecedented show of work by Botticelli in the U.S. was slated for 2017, it came as a surprise to learn that it would take place at the little-known Muscarelle Museum of Art, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Tourists typically visit the historic town for its colonial re-enactments and ghost tours, not its art. If you’ve followed the Muscarelle in recent years, however, you’ll know that Botticelli fits right in.
Richmond Times Dispatch: A spiritual excursion into Botticelli’s genius
Much of Sandro Botticelli’s life is clouded in mystery. A new exhibit at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg attempts to shed light into some of the darkest corners of the far-flung legacy left behind by this exceptional Italian Renaissance artist.
…following Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Leonardo da Vinci in recent years, in which exhibitions of great original works of art provide the lens for us to explore the themes and ideas that inspired their genius”.
Virginia Gazette: Behind the Scenes of Botticelli at the Muscarelle
In a matter of weeks, the elevator doors will start to empty thousands of people into galleries containing 26 works by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli and his colleagues.
Business Wire: Botticelli Painting on View for First Time in United States
One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States, together with other Botticelli mythologies and portraits in Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities, a major international loan exhibition organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Va., in partnership with Italy’s Associazione Culturale Metamorfosi.
The 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.
“It’s incomparable, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Aaron de Groft, director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary. “They’re 500 years old and produced by one of the greatest artists in history.” He remembered his own experience, as a student, watching a curator take out a Michelangelo drawing and marveling. “How did I get here?” he remembers thinking. “Someone of great genius touched this. … It’s a very humbling experience.”
The exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty” opens Saturday at the Muscarelle and runs through April 5. It’s the second huge exhibit at the Muscarelle in three years, following 2013’s “Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane.” Like the Michelangelo exhibit, the da Vinci art will only have one other U.S. venue, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
ALT Daily.com: Legs, Ladies, and the Law: Da Vinci Exhibit at W&M
Feast your eyes on pre-modern visualizations of long limbs, delicate visages, and female empowerment at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, where joint exhibitions showcase the accomplishments of two Italian luminaries – Leonardo da Vinci, who needs no introduction, and Matilda of Canossa, a progressive 11th-century Tuscan countess who, among other things, revived ancient Roman law in medieval Europe and laid the groundwork for later women’s rights. If history lessons lull you to sleep, the pictures themselves will do all the talking…
Virginia Gazette: Leonardo da Vinci drawings at the Muscarelle Museum of Art
With more than 20 images by Leonardo and 8 by his chief rival, Michelangelo, this exploration of Leonardo’s focus on the beautiful and the ugly is the largest da Vinci exhibit in the U.S. since 2003. It also features a new-found self portrait.
CNBC: Muscarelle Museum of Art Announces Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary announced that the first exhibition devoted to Leonardo da Vinci’s fascination with the beautiful and the ugly …
The Flat Hat: A Touch of the East at the Muscarelle
“Tree to Mountain,” an exhibit showcasing over two dozen woodblock prints by Japanese artist Toshi Yoshida opened at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art …
William & Mary News: Tree to Mountain: Student Curated Muscarelle exhibition
William & Mary students helped curate a new exhibition opening at the Muscarelle Museum of Art Friday, which will showcase more than two dozen works from Japanese printmaking artist Tōshi Yoshida.
The Flat Hat: Beauty and Naturalism at the Muscarelle
As John Spike, Assistant Director for the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, explained, “Naturalism just means, ultimately, …
Ciao America: Caravaggio Exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg
This February visitors to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary will have a rare opportunity to view three famous paintings by, or attributed to, Caravaggio and take sides in an intense debate among the world’s leading authorities on Italian paintings.
Alpha Omega Arts: Caravaggio Exhibition Now at Muscarelle Museum of Art
This winter visitors to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary have a rare opportunity to view three famous…
Artist Daily.com: The Dutch Italianates at the Muscarelle Museum of Art
The Muscarelle Museum of Art, in Williamsburg, Virginia, will be the initial site for the national tour of the major exhibition of Old Master paintings. “The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces From Dulwich Picture Gallery” presents a variety of views of 17th-century Italian landscapes as seen through the eyes of Dutch artists…
Gold Leaf Studios Blog: Exhibit, Lecture and Gilding Workshop at The Muscarelle Museum of Art
Bill has culled a selection of frames from his private collection to present at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary. The exhibit…
This Is Italy.com: US ready to welcome Caravaggio’s masterpieces
US ready to welcome Caravaggio’s masterpieces. Three beautiful paintings are currently hosted by theMuscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg.
The New York Times: Coming Events in London, Virginia, San Francisco
Michelangelo aficionados can save themselves a flight to Florence. Works by the artist normally at the Casa Buonarroti are on view in a show at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
An Art-Filled Virginia Weekend
Between now and April 14, Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane is on display at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in …
The splendor of Imperial Russia in two magnificent exhibitions at the NC Museum of History
To commemorate the event, the N.C. Museum of History is hosting two … The Tsars’ Cabinet is organized by The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the …
The Muscarelle presents Wine & Run for the Roses!
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary held their first annual Wine and Run for the Roses event Saturday afternoon, May 7, …
Michelangelo’s Drawings On the Way to Muscarelle Museum of Art
“Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti” will be on view at theMuscarelle Museum of Art at the College …
Greek Reporter.com: Virginia Museum Features Ancient Athenian Artisans
Athenian Potters and Painters: Greek Vases from Virginia Collections is being exhibited at The Muscarelle Museum of Art through Sept. 30, 2012…
Wine Auction and Derby Day Party May 7 at Muscarelle Museum
Now, you have a chance to sample a wide assortment of Virginia wines at the Muscarelle Museum’s Wine & Run for the Roses party and wine auction.
EmptyEasel.com: Finding Inspiration in Art
Recently I heard there was an Impressionist show at the Muscarelle Museum on the campus of William & Mary here in Williamsburg, and I dropped …
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, in the MFA’s Lee Gallery, is organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary in …
The Prints of William Walmsley
His works are in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mint Museum, and …
11 Things to Love About Williamsburg
Muscarelle Museum of Art Lecture Series: If you want to go where the locals go, look up the latest slate of lectures at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, …
Visiting Masterpieces: Caravaggio and Connoisseurship
Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, the exhibition allows visitors to employ the analytical thinking of experts and decide for themselves: which …
Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, The Tsars’ Cabinet at the Museum of Russian …
Developing World Gallery Submissions
The Muscarelle Museum of Art will have the best photos professionally printed and hung in the Sadler Center on exhibition for the month of April.
Jacksonville’s Cummer Museum to Host Two Shows
Upcoming FSU related exhibitions at the Cummer Museum … His works are in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Muscarelle Museum at …
It debuted in February at the College of William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art in honor of the museum’s 30th anniversary and has now moved to …
The Tsars’ Cabinet: The Luxury and Romance of the Romanovs
Starting October 13, visitors to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum will be … and organized by the Muscarelle Museumof Art at the College of William and …
(Kreeger Museum) … color patterns of the “Solar Wall,” a set of tubes filled with dyed water and backlit by fluorescent lights, at the Muscarelle Museum …
Care2.com: What Michelangelo Can Teach Us
I recently had the pleasure of attending Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, an exhibit at The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William …
Encyclopedia Virginia: This Day (Off with Her Head Edition)
1735–1743 (Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary); a map of Libby Prison that includes a written account of the February 1864 …
Pulitzer Center: Muscarelle Annex Developing World Gallery
The College of William and Mary’s International Relations Club along with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and…
NBC News.com: An ugly Michelangelo portrait? It may not be his
Courtesy of the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Michelangelo’s portrait of Cleopatra has been called an ideal Renaissance composition of an idealized …
Huntington Library’s VERSO: Yours, W Short
Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778–1860), Portrait of William Short (1759–1849), 1806, oil on canvas, Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of…
ThisIsTrue.com: Two Teen Tales
The judges included the director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, and a director from the Chrysler Museum of Art.
October Gallery.com: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond presents a selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights era and the decades beyond, which saw tremendous social and political changes.
ClothesOnFilm.com: Costume Stories
This looks a bit brilliant but we’re afraid it’s more than a short plane hop away. Get yourself to the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia if …
Nashville Scene: Hirst and Kokoschka and Prada, Oh My (Exhibition Lineup)
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti offers an intimate view into the hand and mind of Michelangelo Buonarroti, one of the greatest masters of the history of Western art. Twenty-five carefully selected drawings attest to the versatile artist’s activities as a sculptor, painter, poet, architect, and military engineer.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Michelangelo exhibit at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art
You could not go to Italy today and find an exhibit encompassing 25 works by Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, poet and architect considered among the greatest artists of all time. But you can now, in Williamsburg, on the campus of the College of William & Mary. And what’s there includes works rarely or never before seen in the United States.
Breuerpress: Michelangelo’s Drawings Head To Muscarelle Museum of Art In Virginia
Twenty-five drawings by Michelangelo begin a two-city U.S. exhibition in Virginia on Saturday, including some works never before seen in the United States and many that offer a glimpse into the mind of the master and the tumultuous times in which he lived.
Business Wire: Muscarelle Museum of Art Nominates 17th Century Portrait
Voting in Virginia’s Top Ten Endangered Artifacts (www.vatop10artifacts.org) campaign is underway now through August 23, and the Muscarelle…
Wall Street Journal: From the Mind of Michelangelo
The Muscarelle Museum in Williamsburg, Va., is displaying 12 drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as several of his poems and other …
Virginia Pilot/HamptonRoads.com: Florentine connection at Muscarelle Museum of Art
Here’s a bold boast that deserves a town crier: The largest and most important exhibition of Michelangelo drawings in the United States since 1988 opens today in Williamsburg.
William & Mary News: Caravaggio Exhibition Coming to the Muscarelle Museum of Art
This February visitors coming to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary will have a rare opportunity to view three famous paintings by, or attributed to, Caravaggio and take sides in an intense debate among the world’s leading authorities on Italian paintings.
Virginia is for Lovers: Muscarelle Museum of Art
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is located on the campus of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The origins of the collection can be …
GigaPan: A Brush with Passion: Mattia Preti @ The Muscarelle Museum of Art
This GigaPan contains 13 of the 15 Mattia Preti paintings currently on loan to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary.
The New York Times: A Portrait’s Long Fingers Suggest El Greco
A scholar at the Muscarelle Museum at the College of William and Mary has identified a canvas as being by El Greco.
AIA Virginia: Test of Time Awarded to the Muscarelle Museum of Art
The College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, designed by Carlton Abbott, FAIA, has been selected to receive the Society’s Test of …
Virginia Living Magazine: Wine & Run for the Roses
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg. Nearly 350 supporters attended “Wine & Run for the Roses” on May 5 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the …
Daily Press: Caravaggio’s hand explored in Muscarelle Museum show of three Old Master paintings
Now both images are on view at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, which is inviting viewers to decide for themselves if one …
Glenn Close: A Life in Costume, an exhibit of costumes from Tony-winning actress Glenn Close’s career, opens Sunday at the Muscarelle Museum.
Ray Evans Author: Muscarelle Museum, College of William & Mary to benefit The Arc-GW
The Muscarelle Museum at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, provided a wonderful venue for this VIP Reader event. The evening began…
The Flat Hat: Muscarelle tackles three Bs: Bullets, Ballet and Ballots
On the second floor of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, there is a softly lit, gray gallery. Striking photographs belt the …
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary is proud to announce the opening of ‘Michelangelo: …
House and Home Magazine
Less than two weeks after their largest blockbuster exhibitions ever, the Muscarelle Museum will welcome patrons from their next exhibition Curators …
National Endowment for the Arts: Meet the Muscarelle
Wander to the College of William & Mary and you will find the Muscarelle Museum of Art. This museum, first opened in 1983, has deep ties to the …
GSA Blog: A Special Exhibition
Celebrating the American Scene: Painters of the Federal Art Projects, the current exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, features 33 of the GSA’s thousands of lesser known works produced during the New Deal.
Gene A. (William and Mary, 1952) and Mary A. Burns, whose generous art acquisitions endowment fund has enabled the Muscarelle Museum of Art at…