Editor's Note: For further context, read our article HERE. Julien Creuzet with Ana Pi: Your Source at the Feet of the Green PeaksFriday, October 10 from 5 to 7 PMInstitute for Contemporary Art at VCUFree admission with RSVP HERE When French-Caribbean artist Julien...
Over the past few years, over a dozen tattoo shops have cropped up throughout the growing Broad Street pocket and its surrounding areas -- from high-end boutique shops to budget tattoo joints, members of the Richmond tattoo scene are increasingly rubbing elbows. You might expect that all this competition would be bad for business, but Lucky 13...
The Richmond Ballet started their 2017-2018 performance season with the Studio One production, and it featured some of the most stunning choreography happening in ballet today. With three pieces and a run time of about an hour, the performance featured the choreography of George Balanchine, Butler, and Ma Cong. Studio One effectively captured...
The last weekend of September marks the 11th Annual Richmond Zine Fest, held for the second year in a row at the Richmond Public Library. The Richmond Zine Fest is a two-day event for local and national zine-makers can gather to sell, trade their zines--self-published magazines with small print runs and DIY production values--and network with...
Tattoos and street art are undeniably Richmond to the point that we should erect a monument of a giant paintbrush on Monument Avenue. As of 2015, the city was the third most tattooed place in the country and has become apart of our culture just as street art is starting to. With the fascination and popularity of body ink, it only makes sense...
Displaying his first major exhibit, Greg Garner’s “X2” at 9WG Studios, features 31 doubly exposed pictures of Richmond landmarks and junkyard decay, half in black and white and half in color. Garner is a trained musician, earning his Bachelor’s in Music Composition from VCU, but it all changed for him in 2009 when he first bought a digital...
There's no doubt that Norfolk has come a long way. There is a reason it keeps popping up in the press as one of Virginia's most intrepid cities. With a bustling art, music, activist, and cultural scene, Norfolk has been on the forward edge of what's real in Virginia for some time. Even though cultural institutions like Work Release (RIP) have...
It’s impossible to miss the extraordinarily shaped structure peering over the city like an ironclad superhero at the corner of Broad and Belvidere Streets. As part of Modern Richmond Week, a panel discussion was held this past Tuesday, regarding Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) building. Speakers...
"Street art liberates creative expression from the traditional art world" - Angela Huckstep Richmond’s classic sports landmark, The Diamond, which has hosted thousands of baseball fans since 1954, has received a complementary face-lift courtesy of the fourth annual RVA Street Art Festival. The festivities were in full swing yesterday, with...
Street artists and muralists from all over the United States will flock to The Diamond this weekend, to turn the dull concrete baseball stadium into a vibrant piece of Richmond culture for the fourth RVA Street Art Festival. More than 250 buckets of latex paint, cans of spray paint, sculpture supplies and more will be taken to the home of the...
