What started as a Twitter joke has officially entered the city’s canon. The Valentine announced this week that the now-famous “Richmond Gun Hole”, a gun-shaped indentation in the sidewalk on South Addison Street, will be part of the museum’s “This Is Richmond,...
Science and art are such an uncommon intersection, which arguably makes for a curious theme. Candela Books + Gallery delves into this idea with eight artists in their latest exhibit, “Science As Muse.” The exhibit, which features photographic works from Walter Chappell, Caleb Charland, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Pam Fox, Daniel Kariko, Michael Rauner,...
Ten years ago, photographer Ashley Loth was in a dead-end job in Texas and her on-again-off-again relationship had hit another dysfunctional tipping point. Loth looked everywhere for help and came up dry in a state where she didn’t have any personal connections. Originally from Richmond, Loth began reaching out to friends back home, hoping...
A puppeteer from Chattanooga who gets his big break in New York developing a groundbreaking television show that ends up influencing a generation, then goes on to make his mark in the art world — not a story you hear every day, but one that describes the beginning and current career of artist Wayne White. Squeezed in the middle somewhere, is the...
Crossroads Art Center wants to remind us that at one point in time, we were all immigrants. This Friday, the gallery will host an open house for “Where We Come From: Honoring Our Immigrant Ancestors,” which will feature work from several of their 225 represented artists, as well as many individual exhibits in connection with the main project....
With a lacework that binds the vastness of the universe to endless depths of the ocean, local artist Shaylen Broughton constructs the depths of human awareness. “A lot of people ask me if I could be any place and time, what would I be? I say I would be the ocean in the winter, this place of total peace of mind, vast and nothing in the way. It’s...
Later this month, Firehouse Theatre will combine burlesque, Dolores Umbridge, sideshow acts, Jeffrey Dahmer, and improv games to bring fans and those with a passion for the weird and unusual with their latest production, Villains of Vaudeville by River City Vaudeville. Ray Bullock, Founder of River City Vaudeville, wishes to bring back the old...
“Hannibal was the best. No comparison.” Zane shook his head at this. He was the kind of pale that if you looked long enough you might be able to make out the road map of the veins in his face. The dark circles under his eyes made him look as if he was permanently fresh from an altercation. His hair was neat, faded perfectly and slicked back. He...
For the past 10 weeks, a group of Richmond high schoolers spent their Saturdays in VCU’s Sculpture Department doing everything from woodworking to welding. They are the first generation of Future Studio, a free semester-long program aimed at giving Richmond teens hands-on experience creating art with the department. Future Studio is a partnership...
The mechanical snarl of the coal fire engine keeps pace with the scream of the steam whistle as the locomotive leaves the station. The benches in the train car are wooden and worn, smoothed after years of occupancy. The grain in the surface of the wood spreads out in patterns that are elongated, rugged, and oblong. They are cut at a perfect...
