Topic: Arts
9 illuminating memoirs by UVA alumni
These nonfiction works chronicle some of the diverse experiences of the UVA alumni community.
Spring 2025
How Walt Whitman disguised his poems about male love—and how a UVA professor put it all together
Fredson Bowers discovered the original sequence of poems to reveal a more vulnerable side to America’s poet.
Fall 2019
Singular Sensation
Alumnus brought his Broadway talents to Charlottesville to direct and choreograph A Chorus Line.
Fall 2018
Selling Pablo to Pay for Pollock
The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA is paying homage to world-famous art dealer Samuel Kootz (Law 1921) in an exhibition called “Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966,” which examines the role he played in the establishment of modern American art.
Winter 2017