VIRGINIA MUSEUM EYES THE NATIONAL STAGE

“Our collection is as broad as the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,” Michael Brand, the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, told the New York Times‘s Adam Goodheart. “In the past, this museum has portrayed itself merely as the top institution in the Southeast. And while that is something we’re still very proud of, it’s not where we want to end.” The museum is now well poised to make that leap, writes Goodheart.