Can't get to the museum? Explore the VMFA's collection with these videos and essays
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videos + essays
Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant
In a series of 100 paintings, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu tells the history of Zaïre, or present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant
In a series of 100 paintings, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu tells the history of Zaïre, or present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sari Dienes, Star Circle
A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials.
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Mount Jefferson, Pinkham Notch, White Mountains
Summer, autumn, a saw mill all provide metaphors about American republicanism in this pre-Civil War landscape
Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957
Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways
Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
A dream-like flooded landscape—does is suggest bleakness or hope?
Gee’s Bend, quilting over generations
Gee's Bend quilts challenge notions of what is — and what is not — modern art.
Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
An abstract painting, a collage, three musicians, two guitars and a banjo.
William Wetmore Story, Cleopatra
What does this marble sculpture of Cleopatra tell us about race and the Civil War in the U.S.?
Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson
Delaney celebrates the famous opera singer Marian Anderson as a modern icon of Black excellence and civil rights.
