Art Notes

City’s artwork is real trash

“Trash and Treasures of Charlottesville II,” the sequel to a 2005 exposition of objects found on the streets of Charlottesville, is on view in the Peter Whiffle display case of the Humbert Humbert foyer of the University of Virginia’s Brooks Hall.

The exhibit is the work of UVa artists Richard Crozier, Paul Barolsky and Sanda Iliescu, who have brought together a range of objects of both anthropological and aesthetic interest discovered since 2005.

For more information, call 924-4298.

Lithwick speaks at Kluge-Ruhe

Dahlia Lithwick will be speak at 5 tonight at the annual open house and reception of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate.com, contributing writer to Newsweek and legal commentator for NPR’s “Day to Day.”

The event will take place at 400 Worrell Drive (Pantops).  The event is free, but reservations are required. Call 295-4784.

Reception set for UVa show

The University of Virginia Art Museum will have an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. today in conjunction with the exhibit “Gabriel Laderman: Unconventional Realist.”

Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Gabriel Laderman is considered a founding father of post-modern figurative art. Four decades of Laderman’s development as an artist working with still life, landscape and narrative are examined in this exhibition.

Curators Lincoln Perry and David Carbone, both figurative artists, will give gallery talks. There is a small fee to non-members for this event.

Perry and Carbone were Laderman’s students.

Andrea Douglas, the museum’s curator of collections and exhibits, will give a free Lunchtime Talk at noon Tuesday in the museum.

For information, call 434-924-3592.

Madison opens new exhibit

The James Madison Museum will open a new show in the Taylor Gallery, “Founding Friendship: James Madison and James Monroe, Defenders of Democracy” at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The show highlights an array of items — from china and crystal to silver and furnishings — all belonging to the two former presidents who forged a life-long friendship during the infancy of the United States. The two men shared their political philosophies, their Virginia roots and passions for farming, law, literature and politics during their 50 years as friends.

The museum, is at 129 Caroline St. in Orange.

Admission is $3.

For information, call (540) 672-1776.

From staff reports