Under the Manchester Bridge, what had been an idea for years turned into something tangible, at least for a day. Hundreds of people moved through the space as muralists painted, DJs played, and passersby stopped mid-bike ride or walk to figure out what was going on....
The sun, our sun, will expand to engulf the planet Earth in 5 billion years. Don’t bother setting an alarm or getting some extra SPF sunscreen, it won’t matter. Everything we have ever built, or will build, will vaporize and collapse to cinders. Everything. If it all ends in darkness, what is the point of anything? What is the full value of...
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, Virginia” exhibition when it reopens with new additions later this month. According to...
This weekend, Richmond Shakespeare opens Witch at the Theatre Gym inside the Virginia Repertory Theatre, running October 23 – November 9. Directed by longtime company associate Andrew Gall, the darkly comic play reimagines a 17th-century tale through a sharp, modern lens asking what we give up to get what we want, and what it costs to be...
When InLight returns to Richmond this weekend, it won’t just illuminate Abner Clay Park, it’ll transform it into another universe. This Friday and Saturday nights, from 7 to 11 p.m., 1708 Gallery presents Super!Giant!Jump!Star!, a two-night celebration of light, sound, and movement centered entirely on one...
It’s 1983 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I didn’t go to class much. I took Theater 101 as an elective because I thought it would be easy (it wasn’t). One Tuesday in October, the professor ditched the day’s syllabus and spent the next 75 minutes dissecting the Talking Heads concert held in the campus basketball arena the...
This Saturday, culture will spill across the steps of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture as Richmond celebrates its first Diwali Music & Arts Festival, a full-day gathering of color, rhythm, and connection hosted by The Rith Initiative, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by local artists Prabir Mehta and Ruchi Gupta. For both, the...
Editor's Note: For further context, read our article HERE. Julien Creuzet with Ana Pi: Your Source at the Feet of the Green PeaksFriday, October 10 from 5 to 7 PMInstitute for Contemporary Art at VCUFree admission with RSVP HERE When French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet speaks, his words move like tides circling, swelling, pulling you in. “It...
by Catie-Reagan King This October, artoberVA turns ten. That’s ten years of murals and music, plays and poetry, galleries and gatherings. Ten years of Richmond and the Tri-Cities showing off just how creative, bold, and welcoming this region really is. When the idea for artoberVA launched in 2016, it was a bit of a leap. Could one month-long...
Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night may be the one play whose title is also an accurate review of the work itself. Clocking in at four hours long, Journey is part deep dive into an autobiographical tale of compromised family dynamics via rampant substance abuse, and a narcissism display endurance test. My views on the play are...
