Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Six Dancers," 1911, is an oil on canvas. It is from VMFA's Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection.

When the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts re-opens May 1, it will welcome visitors every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended gallery hours until 9 p.m. on Thursdays evenings.

Upcoming Exhibitions in the Main Galleries

German Expressionist Art from the Fischer Collection
May 1 – Jul 18, Center Gallery

This selection of newly acquired works comes from the museum's Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, assembled by the couple in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1905 and 1925. The exhibition includes major works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Max Pechstein, Conrad Felixmüller, and Otto Müller. German Expressionism - one of the most powerful movements in all 20th-century art - evolved when a handful of artists in Dresden, Munich, and Berlin led a crusade away from the Impressionists' obsession with visual effects on behalf of moral indignation and more humanistic concerns. The emphasis in the Fischer Collection is on the artists who belonged to Die Brücke, or the Bridge, one of the movement's central groups.

American Art from the McGlothlin Collection
May 1 – Jul 18, Altria Group Gallery

Drawn from one of the finest private collections of historical American art in the country, American Art from the McGlothlin Collection will feature more than 70 paintings, works on paper, and sculpture and offer a remarkable in depth survey of American art from the antebellum to modern period. Coinciding with the opening of the American Galleries in the new McGlothlin Wing, the exhibition will include major works by artists such as George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Merrit Chase, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George Luks, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler. All the works exhibited are promised gifts to VMFA and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Tiffany: Color and Light
May 29 – Aug 15, NewMarket Gallery

Conceived by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and organized in collaboration with VMFA and the Musée du Luxembourg, Tiffany: Color and Light celebrates the work of the renowned designer who achieved original and spectacular effects in hand-blown glass vessels, leaded glass windows and lamps, and other decorative objects. The exhibition?s approximately 170 objects will include blown-glass vessels; lamps; leaded-glass windows; and decorative objects such as mosaics, bronzes and jewelry; along with paintings, watercolors, architectural elements and silver.

Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris
May 29 – Aug 15, Focus Galleries

This exhibition presents highlights of the collection of Virginia native T. Catesby Jones (1880-1946). An admirer of modern French art of the 1920s and 30s, Jones purchased works from the best-known figures of the era, including Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Masson and Lipchitz. His bequest of paintings, sculptures, and drawings moved VMFA to the forefront of American museums with collections of contemporary European work. Jones also donated works to the University of Virginia and this is the first time these collections have been reunited.

Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Aug 21 – Oct 31

The exhibition features the work of 18 South African photographers and video artists from four generations - those who primarily lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), as well as younger figures who have gained international prominence since apartheid's end. The artists include native South Africans and long-term South African residents from Germany, the United States and England. The exhibition is supported in part by a research grant from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jun Kaneko
Jul 17, 2010 – Feb 27, 2011, E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden

Kaneko is an internationally renowned Japanese-American artist based in Omaha, Neb. He is designing an installation that will include one of his monumental heads - 8.5 feet tall and weighing three tons - reminiscent of figures found on Easter Island, and at least 8 of his dangos, which are slender, 9-foot-tall, totem-like forms.

American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection
Oct 9, 2010 – Jan 2, 2011

American Quilts features approximately 50 singular objects from the acclaimed collection of the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Del. Dating from the 1700s to 1850, these quilts were selected for their significance as art works and for their resonance as historical artifacts. Winterthur's quilt collection - one of the museum's least-known treasures - has never before been showcased in an exhibition that foregrounds their artistic and historical significance in early American culture.

Sally Mann
Dec 11, 2010 – Mar 7, 2011

Focusing on the theme of the body, the exhibition emphasizes Virginia artist Sally Mann's new photography while selectively incorporating earlier images. Mann's most recent work represents an intriguing new direction, tackling expansive themes of mortality and vulnerability, while for the first time using herself and her husband as subjects. In addition, she has taken her bold experiments in photography to new heights, pushing the medium to its limits by making painterly and nearly abstract images, many as unique pieces on glass plates. Together, the exhibition and its accompanying publication will present a fresh perspective on the works of one of today's preeminent photographers. It also promises to extend the artist's visibility well beyond the realm of her chosen medium.

Studio School Exhibitions

The Portrait & the Figure
Mar 5 – Apr 9, VMFA Studio School
Reception: Fri, Mar 5, 5 – 7 pm

The Translucent Image: Watercolor Paintings
Apr 16 – May 21, VMFA Studio School
Reception: Fri, Apr 16, 5 – 7 pm

Pauley Center Exhibitions

The Constructed Image: Christa Bowden and Robert Sulkin
Through Jun 6, Pauley Center
Christa Bowden and Robert Sulkin, winners of 2009-10 Fellowship Awards from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, use construction to convey meaning in their photographs. Bowden uses images of roots, nests, and vines that are broken up and combined with encaustic as metaphors for a sense of home, place, and security. Calling to mind aspects of culture and technology, Sulkin's photographs amass found objects that suggest odd vehicular contraptions. Both artists live and work in Virginia, Bowden in Lexington and Sulkin in Roanoke.

Art at the Airport

New Light and Rust: Michael Clark and Erling Sjovold
Through Jun 7, Richmond International Airport
In this exhibition, Michael Clark and Erling Sjovold use their work to convey a sense of place--by underscoring the commonplace and by the use of memory and myth. Sjovold sets out to describe his idea of place through the use of light and color, but the finished result is essentially a paradox in that it conveys more mystery than clarity.