Chrysler Museum Honors

Major donor fête celebrates benefactors.

On Sept. 13, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk hosted its annual major donors dinner. Museum director Erik Neil and his wife, artist Luisa Adelfio, welcomed the event’s more than 320 guests after a cocktail hour in the Susan and David Goode Wing. The black-tie evening included dinner and a presentation by Neil focusing on the Chrysler’s prominence within the international museum community. Neil highlighted the success of the museum’s international loan program, noting a loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris of one of Claude Monet’s Haystacks currently on display through Jan. 8. Johannes Vermeer’s A Lady Writing, on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,  is also currently being exhibited. It will be on view until Dec. 18. Chrysler.org


Upcoming exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum:


“The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec”
An exhibition of posters and illustrations opens March 10, 2017.

“Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility”
An installation of the Iranian artist’s mirror sculptures and drawings opens March 16, 2017.
June 23, 2025

Waitress at Virginia Repertory Theatre

Virginia Repertory Theatre
June 24, 2025

Yoga on the Magnolia Terrace

Carlyle House Historic Park
June 24, 2025

Exposure: In Bloom, Return to Seoul (2022)

Institute for Contemporary Art