THE MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART DIRECTOR Aaron De Groft, Ph.D. HOURS ADMISSION REGISTRAR’S FELLOW Tuesday – Friday Regular Admission: $5.00 Elana C. Carpinone 10 AM – 5 PM Special Exhibitions Additional: $5.00-$10.00 MANAGER OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Saturday – Sunday Christina M. Carroll, Esq. 12 noon – 4 PM Admission may change during special exhibitions. FACILITIES & EXHIBITIONS MANAGER Closed Monday Kevin Gilliam Free to Members, W&M Students, CURATOR OF EDUCATION & NEW MEDIA Faculty and Staff, and Children Amy K. Gorman, Ph.D. M-F, 8 AM – 5 PM Under Twelve. Closed on most national holidays ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR For more information, Cindy Lucas please visit our website, www.wm.edu/muscarelle SPECIAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATOR or call 757.221.2700. Ursula McLaughlin-Miller ASSISTANT TO DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION Rusty A. Meadows REGISTRAR Melissa Parris DIRECTOR OF SECURITY Charles Pfenning EDUCATION SPECIALIST/ COVER/BACK IMAGES: SCHOOL ARTS COORDINATOR Bettina Flitner Elayne Russell From the series, Report from No Man’s Land, 1990/1991 Silver gelatin photograph HOUSEKEEPING Image courtesy of the Artist Beulah Smith DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE John T. Spike, Ph.D. MEMBERSHIP MANAGER Bronwen Watts ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SECURITY Larry Wright SECURITY Ernest Wright LETTER SPRING/SUMMER FROM THE We ended 2010 increasing attendance by DIRECTOR brief snippets of what people are thinking or more than 35,000 people over last year. doing. We conclude the spring semester with Our Michelangelo, Warhol, experimental a retrospective of ceramic works by retiring 11 architecture, and new acquisitions exhibitions William & Mary Art professor Marlene Jack. resulted in more than 267,000,000 media The exhibition will highlight Jack’s functional BERLIN WALL impressions including recognition in the Wall works designed for the domestic environment Report From No Man’s Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, as well as figurative sculptures. Land, Photographs by Bettina Flitner USAToday, and Chicago Tribune. Financials February 5, 2011 through and membership remained strong while We will begin the fall semester with an April 3, 2011 Dear Muscarelle the Exhibition Endowment grew. Due to exhibition of works by the Kiowa Five –Native MUSEUM Friends, continued demand, the Museum printed a American artists who played an instrumental second edition of the Michelangelo exhibition role in both the history of Native American art COLLECTION Reinstallation of the catalogue and published the papers from the and influenced all modern and contemporary Permanent Collection Caravaggio symposium held several years ago, Native American art – and conclude the year On View Now I realize it has become a bringing us to six book publications in four with an exhibition of Old Master paintings trend for me to say every years. from the Lauro Collection. The collection MARLENE JACK: includes works by Diego Velázquez, Annibale Retrospective year is the best yet for April 16, 2011 through I expect 2011 to be even better. Acclaimed Carracci, Giordano, Salvator Rosa, and June 19, 2011 the Muscarelle Museum art historian, scholar, and author Dr. John T. Anthony van Dyck, to name a few. of Art. Not wanting to Spike will join us as a Distinguished Scholar KIOWA 5 in Residence, teaching two William & Mary Thank you for your endless support of the Origins of Native American deviate from tradition, I courses; providing a six-part lecture series; Muscarelle Museum of Art. I hope you are as Contemporary Art September 10, 2011 through can confidentially tell you and curating an exhibition from one of anxious as I am for another great year at the November 13, 2011 the finest private collection of Old Master Muscarelle. I look forward to seeing you at 2010 was the best year paintings in Italy. Our exhibition schedule the first Distinguished Scholar in Residence LOVE AND WAR yet for the Museum. begins with forty-six black and white lecture on February 17. Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque photographs taken immediately after the Painting from the Lauro fall of the Berlin Wall. The photographer Best, Collection asked her subjects, “How do you feel now?” December 3, 2011 through February 26, 2012 and captured both their verbal and visual reactions to life without the Berlin Wall. In the age of Twitter and other social media sources, Aaron H. De Groft, Ph.D., ’88 the verbal responses mirror Twitter tweets – Director The Muscarelle Museum of Art Board of Directors invites you to a new tradition in Williamsburg WINE AUCTION ON DERBY DAY SAVE THE DATE | MAY 7, 2011 3:00 PM Wine & Run for the Roses will begin with a reception featuring the finest Virginia wines and conclude with the running of the 137th Kentucky Derby. The live auction and silent auctions will feature unique and exclusive lots available only through this event, including an African safari; bottles of Petrus 1970, Screaming Eagle 2003, and La Mission Haut Brion 1966; and a dinner with the best chefs in Williamsburg. Proceeds of the auction will benefit the Muscarelle Museum of Art. For more information please contact Bronwen Watts at [email protected] or 757.221.2709. Visit www.wm.edu/muscarelle/wineauction IMAGE: Jean Dufy | At the Races (Detail), 1957-1958 | Oil on canvas | Gift of Mrs. Rose A. Guy in honor of William and Mary President Thomas A. Graves, Jr. BOARD OF LETTER Dear Supporters DIRECTORS FROM THE of the Muscarelle CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN Theresa Thompson Museum, VICE CHAIR Janet M. Osborn SECRETARY 2011 promises to be a busy year for the Board of Directors. Our Constance W. Desaulniers most important initiative is to conclude raising $1 million for the William B. Bales Anne H. Barr Exhibition Endowment. More than half way to our goal, we ask all Polly S. Bartlett members, friends, and supporters of the Museum to contribute. David M. Brashear Laura Burrows This important endowment ensures the Museum will have Ann J. Critchfield sufficient funds to host world class exhibitions such Michelangelo, Kathleen D. Durdin Sarah O. Gunn Tiffany glass, the Medici Collections, and Andy Warhol. Susan Hillard Jerry E. Howell Please consider a gift this spring. Any The afternoon will conclude with the 137th outstanding contributions in performing Jane Kaplan contribution, regardless of the size, helps. running of the Kentucky Derby. I hope to and museum arts. Michael W. Koch Gordan S. Kray see you there. In May, the Board will host Wine & Run for I encourage you to review the progress Jill M. Lord, Ph.D. the Roses, a wine auction on Derby Day, to The Board has begun preparations for the report at the end of this newsletter. The Fred B. Malvin benefit the Museum. The first of its kind 2011 Cheek Medal ceremony to be held on noted successes are due largely in part Patrisia B. Owens in Williamsburg, Wine & Run for the Roses September 23. Those who attended in 2009 to generous supporters like you. Thank Pamela G. Palmore begins with a silent auction and reception will recall we bestowed the Cheek Medal you for making 2010 a great year for the Kathleen M. Ring Christine C. Rowland of the finest Virginia wines. A live auction upon two well deserving recipients, David Muscarelle Museum of Art. I look forward Anna C. Sim will immediately follow the silent auction Alan Brown, Curator of Italian and Spanish to working with you to make 2011 even John T. Spike, Ph.D. featuring high-end wine and non-wine lots Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, more successful. Jane Y. Spurling available only through the Museum. Live and Fred Wilson, a major contemporary and Carlton A. Stockton auction lots include: a bottle of Petrus 1970; conceptual artist in New York, at a dinner Sincerely, Ray C. Stoner, Esq. a bottle of Screaming Eagle 2003; a bottle reception at Lake Matoaka. President H.C. Thaxton, Jr. of La Mission Haut Brion 1966; a custom Reveley still speaks highly of the event N. Christian Vinyard designed jewelry piece from The Precious commenting it is one of the finest events Terry Thompson, ’67 Gem; a dinner prepared by the finest chefs he has ever attended. This fall we will Chairman, Board of Directors in Williamsburg; and an African safari. recognize individuals who have made Muscarelle Museum of Art Afterthe fallofthe Berlin Wall: Report from No Man’s Land Award winning German photographer, Bettina Flitner examines life after the fall of the Berlin Wall. ON VIEW AT MUSCARELLE Report from No Man’s Land features forty-six photographs exploring the aftermath of the fall of the OPENS CLOSES FEB 5 APR 3 Berlin Wall. For many months after the fall of the Wall 2011 2011 Flitner explored the former death strip of Berlin, an area that became no man’s land. There she met people from the East and West and asked them, “What do you feel now?” After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Report from No Man’s Land is a photographic essay of Berliners’ answers to this question. Built in an attempt to stop East Berliners quickly became militarized with watch towers, citizens began flooding across the border to from migrating to West Berlin, the Berlin Wall anti-vehicle trenches, and additional barriers. the opposite side. Eventually, Germans and became the symbol of Cold War politics and This area became known as the ”death strip”. tourists chipped away large parts of the wall as the ideological divide between capitalism and an act of freedom and to keep as souveniors. While East Berlin was crumbling politically communism. After World War II, the Allied and economically, West Berlin flourished. The Aaron De Groft, Director of the Muscarelle Powers divided Germany and Berlin into four most poignant display of the different cultures Museum of Art, commented on the exhibition, IMAGES: sections.