Art Notes

Tuck into Kluge-Ruhe’s latest Tucker Box Tour

Kluge-Ruhe Collection will hold a Tucker Box Tour from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The event, scheduled on the third Wednesday of each month, offers a guided tour of the current exhibits, followed by lunch in the gallery. You can bring your own lunch or order one for $8. Ordered lunches are provided by Brix, the Terrace Cafe.

This month’s exhibits include “All-Time Favorites: Best-Loved Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection” and “Yuru-yururla: Women’s Painting from Yuendumu.”

Reservations are required. Call 244-0234.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection is at 400 Worrell Drive, off U.S. 250 east at Pantops.

Satyrs, centaurs and art lectures, oh, my

Satyrs and centaurs will be the topic for McIntire Department of Art Lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday in the University of Virginia’s Campbell Hall, Room 160.

A reception will follow in Fayerweather Lounge.

Francois Lissarrague, director of the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris, will explore these representations and the different sexual and social behaviors of satyrs (a mythological creature with a goat’s ears, legs and horns) and centaurs (a mythological creature with a human upper and an equine lower male body).

For information, call 924-6123.

Art Upstairs’ pottery pours on the relevancy

Art Upstairs Gallery will have an opening reception tonight for a new exhibit from Mike Harrison’s River Run Pottery.

“Too Poor,” a collection of ceramic vessels, reflects the current economic times as well as the plight of many local artists. As a play on words, it also features pottery that pours — pitchers, tea pots, flasks, bottles, and other vessels designed for beverages.

The reception will run from 6 to 8 p.m., and the exhibit will remain on view through March 4.

The gallery is at 112 W. Main St., Suite 3.

Call 923-3900 for more details.

From staff reports