{"id":60035,"date":"2021-10-14T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/museum-series-5-virginia-museum-fine-arts\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:45:00","slug":"museum-series-5-virginia-museum-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/museum-series-5-virginia-museum-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Talks | Washington, DC #5 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The fifth\u00a0installment of Museum Talks | Washington, DC<\/strong><strong> is featuring the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts!<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y-6PHaR-sZE\" target=\"\">\n\t\tWatch the replay\t<\/a>\n\t\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmfa.museum\/\">The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts<\/strong>\u00a0in Richmond, Virginia, is one of the largest comprehensive art museums in the United States. VMFA, which opened in 1936, is a state agency and privately endowed educational institution. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, and to encourage the study of the arts. Through the Office of Statewide Partnerships program, the museum offers curated exhibitions, arts-related audiovisual programs, symposia, lectures, conferences, and workshops by visual and performing artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmfa.museum\/pressroom\/news\/international-search-vmfa-selects-dr-sylvain-cordier-paul-mellon-curator-head-department-european-art\/\">Sylvan Cordier<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0curator and scholar of European art.\u00a0Born and raised in France, Cordier received his doctorate in art history from Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sorbonne in 2009.\u00a0Prior to moving to Montreal for his position as the Curator of Early Decorative Arts and the Napoleonic Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Cordier worked as curatorial assistant and assistant curator at the Mus\u00e9e Gustave Moreau, the chateau of Versailles, and the Mobilier National in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at the MMFA, Cordier curated two critically acclaimed exhibitions that traveled internationally, including presentations at VMFA:\u00a0<em>Napoleon: Power and Splendor<\/em>\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0<em>Rodin: Evolution of a Genius<\/em>\u00a0(2015).\u00a0He has been appointed to the position of Paul Mellon Curator and the Head of the Department of European Art at the\u00a0<strong>Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.\u00a0<\/strong>Cordier\u2019s high standing in the museum field was recognized in June 2018, when the online journal\u00a0<em>Artsy<\/em>\u00a0named him one of 20 museum curators taking a cutting-edge approach to art history.\u00a0The first major project for Cordier will be the reinstallation of the Mellon French Impressionist and British Sporting Art collections in their newly refurbished galleries, which will re-open to the public in October 2020. The esteemed Mellon collections have been travelling nationally and internationally since 2017, creating opportunities for people around the world to view the incredible works donated by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our moderator Faya Causey<\/strong>\u00a0is a scholar, lecturer, and educator whose interests range from the Paleolithic to the present. Recently retired as the head of academic programs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., she was previously a professor of art history at the California State University. At the Gallery, she oversaw the internship and fellowship program and public programs\u2014including lectures, symposia, and seminars presented by artists, historians, conservators, collectors, and curators. Although her primary field is ancient art, with a focus on the archaeology and ancient art of Italy, she has also published and lectured on the history of museums, Michelangelo, Paul C\u00e9zanne, Sigmar Polke, Wu Guangzhong and I.M. Pei. Her books\u00a0<em>Amber and the Ancient World\u00a0<\/em>(2012) and\u00a0<em>Ancient Carved Amber in the J. Paul Getty Museum\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(2020) were both published by the Getty. She contributed two essays for the 2020 exhibition catalogue\u00a0<em>C\u00e9zanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings,\u00a0<\/em>ed. J. Elderfield (Yale University Press) organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Royal Academy. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60033,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[236,218],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-60035","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Museum Talks | Washington, DC #5 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/museum-series-5-virginia-museum-fine-arts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Museum Talks | Washington, DC #5 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fifth\u00a0installment of Museum Talks | Washington, DC is featuring the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts! \u00a0 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\u00a0in Richmond, Virginia, is one of the largest comprehensive art museums in the United States. 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