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Colleen Curran covers arts and entertainment for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She writes the weekly column Top Five Weekend Events. With the goal of being accessible to all visitors, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts doubled attendance during the holidays after being open bo…. Last week for Chihuly! And …. Chihuly at the VMFA features eight installations — several of which were created specifically for the museum, including Red Reeds in the outdo….

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He said he waited for rainy days so he could wear a hooded jacket and made four trips to release the fish. All the fish died recently. The museum said it had no plans to replace the fish, but on Thursday at least two were seen in the pool. A fish swims through a reflection of the Chihuly installation in the E. Ellyson made an anonymous donation of goldfish to the pond about four years ago and was upset to learn that the fish had recently died.

His mission: Introduce goldfish to the reflecting pool behind the new wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. So I figured the only way to do it in the summertime was to wait for a thunderstorm. The rain, he reasoned, would give him a chance to slip in with his head discreetly covered with a hooded jacket in case someone noticed and tried to identify him later.

It worked. He said he ultimately made four rainy-night fish drops at the museum and the fish thrived and multiplied, some growing to 5 inches or longer. All was well as far as Ellyson was concerned until last week, when a friend alerted him that all the goldfish had disappeared from the pond. Indeed, during a visit to the reflecting pool Thursday, at least two small gold fish were seen darting below the water lilies, suggesting they might already be making a comeback.

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