The curtain comes down on Stay Gold: 20 Years of RVA Magazine & Gallery5 this Friday. Huge thanks to everyone who packed the place at the opening earlier this month. Big thank you to PLF, RVA Moon Market, Gallery5, Gull, Sweet Potatoes, No BS! Brass Band and The...
This weekend, the National Poster Retrospecticus comes to RVA's own Gallery 5 for one night only. Making its appearance this Saturday, April 20, the Retrospecticus is a massive display of hand printed concert posters featuring work by leading lights of the field such as Daniel Danger, Aaron Draplin, and Aesthetic Apparatus. The exhibit presents...
The will to create is uniquely human, and art is a natural right for all of us. It inspires competition, romance, and change. Art is a luxury for both serious and amateur collectors. The will to create is uniquely human, and art is a natural right for all of us. It inspires competition, romance, and change. Art is a luxury for both serious and...
Richmond’s Henley Street Theatre and the Richmond Shakespeare are excited to announce a merger that will bring the two renowned theatre production companies under one roof for a year-round romp of Shakespearean merriment. The two companies decided to make the move after two years of talk, beginning with their 2010-2011 co-production of The...
Complexity, and especially ambiguity, are what make Shakespeare Shakespeare. The Bard has many strengths: the grace of his verse and the ease with which he coined the perfect phrase or word, the ability to make esoteric and highly specific situations universally understandable, the prolific speed with which he wrote powerful and enduring plays,...
The Pride, Alexi-Kaye Campbell’s award winning, era-hopping play about societal issues and acceptance, continues Richmond Triangle Players’s 20th Anniversary season beginning Thursday April 4. It will run Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8pm through April 27th. The Pride, Alexi-Kaye Campbell’s award winning, era-hopping play about societal...
In 1980, the audacious art scholar Slim Stealingworth wrote: "Many critics have described Tom Wesselmann as the most underrated painter of the American Art world of the 1960's." The funny thing is that Slim Stealingworth IS Tom Wesselmann. Frustrated at being ignored by the art world establishment, Wesselmann created an alternate identity to...
Spring is here, lent is over, Easter has passed, and the weather might actually have figured out that it's time to warm up! So maybe this First Friday it'll actually be pleasant walking-around-outdoors weather. Wouldn't that be nice? Spring is here, lent is over, Easter has passed, and the weather might actually have figured out that it's time to...
Charles Berger is a tattoo artist who plies his trade at Heroes and Ghosts in Carytown. We’ve known Charles for some time, and watched his talent grow immensely over the past few years. His work was featured in the Valentine Richmond History Center’s recent exhibition, History, Ink: The Tattoo Archive Project. This project featured the tattoos of...
1708 Gallery presents their annual art auction, Mixology, with honorable chair Shepard Fairey, this Saturday, April 6, at 8pm. The 23rd annual fundraiser features both a live and silent auction of over 60 artists. 1708 Gallery presents their annual art auction, Mixology, with honorable chair Shepard Fairey, this Saturday, April 6, at 8pm. The...
