Editor's Note: This article was produced as part of our partnership with the Science Museum of Virginia. Not every night out has to end with squeezing into a crowded bar. Sometimes it's nice to grab a drink, eat something good, learn a few things, and actually have...
Just weeks after bringing together Latino muralists from across Virginia for a collaborative project in Richmond, artist George Arturo is once again turning to public art. Following the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Houston last week, Arturo wants to donate his time and...
I went to Virginia MOCA expecting to hear Andy Howell talk about skateboarding. Instead, I left thinking about community and how people find each other. Howell's installation opens Seamless, the museum's new exhibition exploring the overlap between art and design. At first glance, it feels almost chaotic. A skateboard hangs in front of a wall...
Editor's Note: Reminder, the sculptures are located on private property and are not open for general visitation. Access is available only through scheduled guided tours, with Labor Day weekend currently expected to be the final tour on the calendar. Tour information is available HERE. On an industrial property outside Williamsburg, forty-two...
If you’ve been reading these reviews for a while, you’ll notice I love me some context. Especially surrounding William Shakespeare’s plays. One of my favorite things about the existence of Richmond Shakespeare is that they’ve forced me to go back to the English Lit textbooks, deep dive into some YouTube lectures, search for Elizabethan and modern...
Editor’s Note: RVA Magazine is partnering with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture on coverage related to America’s 250th anniversary, including Richmond SailFest and IllumiNation. It's hard to impress people with just a building. Yet standing in front of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture last week during a test run for...
Richmond metal band GWAR says the Secret Service contacted the group following a recent performance at the Vans Warped Tour in Washington, D.C., that featured the mock execution of a Donald Trump effigy. Video of the performance, which showed band members disemboweling a Trump character onstage and spraying the crowd with fake blood, circulated...
Do you remember the rollerblading guy with the American flag kit on September 12th? We will never forget the 11th for the horrors, but do you remember the 12th? The 13th? If you do, I don’t even have to say which year. If you don’t, let me tell you a little bit about your country. I don’t know how many of you slept the night of September 11th,...
Imagine pulling into a suburban shopping center to buy a toaster and finding a department store that appeared to be falling apart with corners breaking away, walls peeling open like a giant cardboard box, or facades seemingly collapsing under their own weight. For thousands of shoppers in the 1970s and 1980s, it was simply a trip to Best...
It could be said that Shakespeare invented the rom-com. It could also be said that Jane Austen improved it a couple of centuries later. Between the two of them, meet-cutes, notices of love or rejection arriving at exactly the wrong time, and breathless affirmations of adoration and/or regret always end in a heap of laughter and wedding bells. The...
