Forbes

Renovated And Expanded Art Museums At Colonial Williamsburg Will Be Ready To Greet Visitors When Green Light To Return Given

A historic village. Costumed reenactors. Living history events. This is the Colonial Williamsburg everyone knows about. Less well known are its two world-class art museums. The DeWitt Wallace ...
Robb Report

The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg Breaks Ground on its Building Expansion

Nearly two and a half years after announcing the public phase of a $40 million capital campaign with its goal met, the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg held a groundbreaking ceremony this ...
Artnet

Can a Colonial Museum Decolonize? Colonial Williamsburg’s Art Museum Just Used a $42 Million Renovation to Update the Story It Tells

The art museums at Colonial Williamsburg are reopening with a new renovation—and new research into the origins of their collections. The facade of the newly renovated Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums ...
Essence

While Colonial History Erases Black Contributions, This Exhibit Showcases Them

For the first time in history, the art museums of Colonial Williamsburg are offering an “exhibition of decorative and folk art collections exclusively crafted by Black artists from the 18 th to 21 st ...
Hyperallergic

The Spurious Progressivism of Spanish Colonial Art

Diego Rodrίguez de Silva y Velázquez, “Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus” (1619–20), oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 46 1/2 inches (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Presented, Sir Alfred and Lady ...