Upcoming special exhibitions

By: | Times-Dispatch
Published: March 14, 2010

May 1 to July 18: "American Art from the McGlothlin Collection" in special-exhibition galleries; free. The names attached to this array of more than 70 paintings, sculptures and works on paper reads like a who's who of American art in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bristol collectors James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin have promised all the works to the museum.
May 1 to July 18: "German Expressionist Art from the Fischer Collection" in special-exhibition galleries; free. This array offers about 20 highlights from the approximately 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints in the German Expressionist trove assembled by Ludwig and Rosy Fischer in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1920 and 1925. The museum acquired the trove last year.
May 1 to July 25: "Matisse, Picasso and Modern Art in Paris" elsewhere in the museum; free. Fifty-one paintings, sculptures and works on paper highlight the collecting acumen of T. Catesby Jones, the New York admiralty lawyer who grew up in Petersburg and collected works by Picasso, Matisse and other modernists between 1924 and 1939. Jones gave the bulk of his collection to the museum.
May 29 to Aug. 15: "Tiffany: Color and Light" in special-exhibition galleries; $15. Richmond is the only American stop for this showcase of the glass wizardry of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany's hand-blown glass vessels, leaded-glass window and lamps are particularly well-represented among the approximately 180 objects. The show, co-organized by the museum, opened in September in Paris and is now in Montreal.
July 17 to Feb. 27, 2011: "Jun Kaneko" in E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden; free. Organized by the museum, this show highlights the achievement of internationally celebrated Japanese-American ceramic sculptor Kaneko. It focuses on one of Kaneko's monumental heads, which stands 8.5 feet tall and weighs 3 tons, and will include at least eight of Kaneko's "dangos," which are 9-foot-tall, totem-like sculptures.
Aug. 21 to Oct. 31: "Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa Since 1950" in special-exhibition galleries; $10. Organized by the museum, this exhibition spotlights the work of 18 South African photographers and video artists spanning four generations.
Oct. 9 to Jan. 2, 2011: "American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection" in special-exhibition galleries; $15. The permanent collection at Delaware's Winterthur Museum is yielding this sampling of about 50 quilts dating from the 1700s to 1850.
Dec. 11 to March 7, 2011: "Sally Mann" in special-exhibition galleries; $10. The globally celebrated Lexington photographer takes a new direction in her most recent work.
Dec. 11 to March 28, 2011: "First Hand: Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection" elsewhere in the museum; free. Boston College assembled this show of 60 eyewitness drawings of the Civil War by Joseph Becker and his colleagues.
Feb. 26 to May 22, 2011: "Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria" in special-exhibition galleries; $15. New York's Museum for African Art organized this traveling showcase of bronze, terra cotta, stone and glass sculpture created from the 12th to the 15th centuries B.C. in Ife, the ancient Yoruba city-state and homeland. The approximately 100 objects were borrowed from Nigerian museums.