In the barrenness of the winter months, SCAG (Southside Contemporary Art Gallery) provides a vivid contrast. Hull Street is alive with people hustling about the red brick buildings and snow-encrusted sidewalks. The gallery itself resembles a greenhouse, its entrance...
Back in May, we worked with Art Whino to bring the G40 Mural Project to Richmond. Born out of that beautiful collaboration was our misfit love-child, Whino Magazine. The first issue came out a few months ago, with the second one to drop later this month, and since we are so stoked on it is we wanted to give you a little taste. Back in May, we...
Did First Friday sneak up on you guys the way it snuck up on us this month? Because whoa. I am so late posting this. And of course, the month I take forever to get started on this post is the month that it seems every gallery in Richmond has a First Friday exhibit happening. Sorry I haven't given you guys much time to prepare, but if it's any...
Shawn J. Miller (16 x 48 on canvas) Tomorrow night, Margarita's Cantina (107 North 18th Street) will host The Curtis Cornell Memorial Fundraiser, to benefit the Cornell family after the tragic loss of their father and husband. Curtis was a fellow Richmond resident whose individual contributions most likely resonated long enough to touch each and...
Here's a pretty cool video created and released last month, shortly after Futura 2000's visit to RVA. The video, created by TRS-804 in collaboration with Audio Mass Transit, combines still shots, music, and live footage to create a fascinating overview of Futura's career, and then focuses on some of what went down during his public appearance at...
Check it out, folks--R. Nicholas Kuszyk, the VA-born, New York-based artist who made recent appearances both at the RVA Street Art Festival and within the pages of our print magazine, has just joined forces with Richmond literary magazine Makeout Creek to present his latest book. Check it out, folks--R. Nicholas Kuszyk, the VA-born, New...
Mixing skate, hotrod and comic book cultures, Nychos is creating a funny albeit gross visual vocabulary on a super large scale. Residing in London and working with contemporaries like ROA, Pixel Pancho and Flying Fortress at street art festivals has raised his profile to where his work is everywhere online and in magazines worldwide. Hoping to...
As the lights go down, a wave of silence ripples through a crowd eager to know who the next gladiator to enter the ring will be. When your name is called, an initial lump forms in your throat, as if the date of your funeral was just announced. You stand up and approach the makeshift platform that, for the next three to four minutes, will serve as...
VA-born, New York-based artist R. Nicholas Kuszyk is best known for his robots. He’s shown his colorful, eye-catching work in galleries all over the world, and even put his robots into book form with a children’s book, R Robot Saves Lunch, released by Penguin in 2010. Nick’s done a lot of work in different sizes and formats, but he painted plenty...
He was sitting on a bench, smoking a Camel non-filter. I ordered a Hennessy and Ginger right before I was distracted by friends. We schmoozed with other media types, musicians, and artists, all rubbing elbows furiously like rats between sheetrock. I looked back in his direction, but Futura was nowhere to be found. I wondered if he left, recalling...
