Monsieur Zohore, Sandy if you're nasty, is your friendly neighborhood internationally renowned artist. It's about time RVA got to know him. If you're lucky enough to have attended his painting class at VCU, or if you find yourself in the cooler corners of Richmond’s...
Vaudeville Galore have been presenting quite the cavalcade of live performing arts showcases at Gallery 5 in recent months, featuring everything from burlesque to acrobatics to sideshow-freak craziness. This weekend, in conjunction with Buster's Haunted Stage Shows, they'll be bringing a combination of the three, plus even more wild things for us...
Ke$ha may call herself the queen of glitter, but the title’s true ruling sovereign is Richmond’s Sirena Sparkles. And sparkle she does. What GWAR does with fake blood, Sirena does with real glitter. The performer compliments her original ensembles with countless sequins, rhinestones, small mirrors, beads, costume jewelry and crystals. Her most...
Fashion designer Angela Bacskocky has been working for a while on a project called Nest, which was intended to merge fashion and fine art into a multi-disciplinary exploration of particular themes. Those themes, as expressed on Bacskocky's website, revolved around "isolation and hibernation, [...] the animal instinct to burrow and hide away,...
Jonathan Miles, local yogi, martial artist, and a damn good friend, is the co-founder of Project Yoga Richmond. He spends his time teaching classes to yoga lovers of all levels, and birthing new instructors in the process. In 2011, Jonathan traveled down the East Coast to work with his peers and teach classes, bringing back new poses, new...
On Saturday June 9, the ADA Gallery, located at 228 W. Broad St., will present an exhibition entitled Blaque Lyte. Chicago artists Chris Kerr and Paul Nudd, who have been working together on various projects since 2007, initially unveiled this curated art show in Chicago last fall. Featuring work from over 30 artists, Kerr and Nudd solicited work...
The literary community loses a titan with the death yesterday of Ray Bradbury, science fiction Grand Master and lifelong champion of free speech, best known for his dystopian fable of book-burning, Fahrenheit 451 (1953). The literary community loses a titan with the death yesterday of Ray Bradbury, science fiction Grand Master and lifelong...
Jesse Reno is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who got in touch to share some of his work with us. He's a self-taught mixed media painter who has done over 3000 paintings in the past 12 years. Jesse Reno is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who got in touch to share some of his work with us. He's a self-taught mixed media painter who has done over...
The journalism surrounding fashion constantly causes me to reconsider the categories I have fabricated in my head as to what I feel comfortable wearing in public. If you asked me whether I feel comfortable wearing a bra in public, I would initially respond with no. Yet the prevalence of of bustier tops of late, a style which mimics bras, has...
That's right, everyone, it's that time again! June's First Friday is on the 1st of the month, so if it snuck up on you we understand, especially right after the long holiday weekend. But this short week is nearly over, and the weather has made clear that summer is now in full swing, so this Friday evening, why not beat the heat by ducking into...
