The Great Ella
Today’s Google Doodle (seen above) celebrates a Virginian (by birth): Ella Fitzgerald. The great jazz singer was born ninety-six years ago today in Newport News, but soon after her birth her… Read More»
Tag: Virginia Arts
Springtime in Virginia
Springtime in Virginia, oil on canvas, Nicolai Cikovsky (Charleston Renaissance Gallery)
experimental beds
Because we’re slow, we missed the work of Australian artist Judy Watson that until earlier this year was on display at the University of Virginia. [See update.] This set of… Read More»
Memento Ignis
Ruins of Rotunda, painting of the University of Virginia Rotunda ruins after fire, on a Rotunda roof tile, by Minnie Jones, ca. 1895–1896 (University of Virginia Special Collections); after the… Read More»
Small Wars
As long as we’re posting wonderful Virginia photographs today (and this week), we should mention that the Vietnamese-born photographer An-My Lê just won a so-called MacArthur “Genius” grant. Her series Small Wars… Read More»
Reconciliation
Nancy and Dwayne, Danville, Virginia, 1970 by Emmet Gowin (1941– ), of Danville. Says the photographer: The two children, the boy and the girl, are so simple and so complicated. I… Read More»
Jefferson’s Words Made Flesh
In honor of Natasha Trethewey‘s appointment as poet laureate of the United States, VQR has commissioned from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center (a sister program of the encyclopedia)… Read More»
Hard Times in Old Virginny
As we noted earlier, today is the anniversary of Nat Turner’s rebellion. Whether this uprising of slaves, which took place over two days in 1831, was “successful” and whether I… Read More»
A Silent Tension
A Visit from the Old Mistress by Winslow Homer, 1878. The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., provides some background: A Visit from the Old Mistress captures a tentative encounter in… Read More»
A Dog Swap
A Dog Swap by Richard Norris Brooke, 1881. Housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., this painting of Brooke’s was created at the same time as A Pastoral Visit.… Read More»
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