John B. Ravenal (born August 1, 1959 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an art historian, writer, and museum curator.
His lecture about the exhibition took place in the Leslie Cheek Theater in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
His exhibitions for the Philadelphia Museum of Art included commissioned projects by Sherrie Levine, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Long, and Rirkrit Tiravanija; a retrospective of the art of Sidney Goodman; and the first United States museum exhibition by Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay.
[2] He returned to the VMFA for the Johns/Munch exhibition, presenting a lecture about mutual motifs in the works of the two artists, which was preceded by a performance by Norwegian pianist Else Olsen Storesund[7] of the John Cage composition, Perilous Night.
[16] John Ravenal is the husband of writer Virginia Pye, the author of River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix.