Richmond, get ready—this weekend, GalaxyCon’s Nightmare Weekend is bringing a mashup of pop culture chaos, horror flick royalty, and hometown heroes to the Greater Richmond Convention Center from October 11th to 13th. It’s more than just another con; this one’s...
'I could just cry, I'm so excited!" gushed a members-preview visitor who came upon American art curator Sylvia Yount at the newly installed, extravagantly opulent Worsham-Rockefeller Bedroom, an irresistible crowd magnet in the new McGlothlin Wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 'I could just cry, I'm so excited!" gushed a members-preview...
B-Sides Thrift Boutique is the most recent installment to Carytown’s ever-evolving collection of fashion and retail shops. The store, which opened last week, boasts a variety of women’s and men’s apparel in a wide array of styles from vintage to modern with plenty in between. Situated at the eastern edge of Carytown, right across from Capital...
Go ahead. Match the color of your belt with that of your shoes. Button-up your cuffs. Make sure your tie knot is perfectly symmetrical; perfectly centered; and the tip of your tie perfectly reaches the middle of your belt buckle. And while you’re at it, make sure your shoes are perfectly strapped-up/laced-up too. With all the work you put into...
A sample of the graffiti work from the Cisco KSL crew from Europe. A sample of the graffiti work from the Cisco KSL crew from Europe. Looks like they bridge the gap between street and commercial work.
FOR MORE RVA #1 CLICK HERE The road to Lunenburg Correctional Center is a ribbon of pavement pulled through trees that crowd the shoulders and open suddenly into hillside farmlands, dilapidated barnyards, the great American South lounging on the sloping grass of counties with no memory of urban progress. There is no hint of cosmopolitan...
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Matt Hawthorne, one our favorite Richmond artists has new work hanging in at Gallery 5 until this weekend. Matt Hawthorne, one our favorite Richmond artists has new work hanging in at Gallery 5 until this weekend. The works in Richmond native Matthew Hawthorne’s upcoming series, Gut Feeling- comprised of a selection of his older and newer works-...
Name Tag stickers go back to the origins of graffiti. An easy way to mass-produce a tag and quickly place them, they were they accomplished all the goals of stencils but faster. They're still a prevalent form of graff, faster than stencils, faster than writing, and captured en masse here by photography great Martha Cooper. From Mark Batty...
A pretty self-explanatory tumblr account, these fake science posters make me giggle. They're drawn in the style of classic science posters seen on the walls of biology and physics classes in high school classrooms across America. They haven't been posting for very long, but already some of their posts are making light of A pretty self-explanatory...
