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Frida: Beyond the Myth at VMFA — Disorienting, Intimate, and Absolutely Frida

by William Okaily | ART, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, MUSEUM & GALLERY NEWS

Walking through Frida: Beyond the Myth at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts doesn’t feel like attending a documentary screening — it feels like slipping into Frida’s world. It disorients you into her mind. You step through doorways that feel like mirrors, gaze through...

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How to Spot an Authoritarian Takeover of America in Five Books or Less

We’re probably past the point of sugarcoating where we are in America. The fear of authoritarian creep isn’t a fear anymore. Checks and balances, once the pride of our democracy, are failing. Congress has either abdicated its responsibilities or stood by in polite...

Drawn to the Strange | Richmond’s Animation Festival Gets Weirder (and Better)

For the third year running, the Richmond Animation Festival returns to The Byrd Theatre with its signature mix of experimental flair, international shorts, and creative community energy. What started as a modest gathering of animation lovers has quietly evolved into...

Randy Blythe Has Seen The Darkness, But Is Still Searching For the Light

“Children walk into school with guns and execute their classmates and teachers. And we just say, ‘There’s nothing we can do about it.’” That line from my recent conversation with Randy Blythe hit me the hardest. And I have a high tolerance for pain. As I was writing...

20 Years of RVA Magazine & Gallery5 | A Farewell to Stay Gold This Friday

The curtain comes down on Stay Gold: 20 Years of RVA Magazine & Gallery5 this Friday. Huge thanks to everyone who packed the place at the opening earlier this month. Big thank you to PLF, RVA Moon Market, Gallery5, Gull, Sweet Potatoes, No BS! Brass Band and The...

The Big Dipper Summit | Where Business and Culture Actually Collide

The Big Dipper Innovation Summit kicked off today, and if you’re not here yet, well, you’re already behind. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill business event—it’s where culture and business smash together in ways that actually mean something. Skeptical? We get it. But...

Frida: Beyond the Myth at VMFA — Disorienting, Intimate, and Absolutely Frida

Walking through Frida: Beyond the Myth at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts doesn’t feel like attending a documentary screening — it feels like slipping into Frida’s world. It disorients you into her mind. You step through doorways that feel like mirrors, gaze through...

A Richmond Beginning, a Typographic Legacy: Teddy Blanks In Focus

In the Richmond of 2005, Teddy Blanks was everywhere—playing packed shows with Ross Harman as the pop duo The Gaskets, writing sharp film reviews and interviews for the early issues of RVA Magazine, and even acting in a short film that, for me, still holds personal...

Guerrilla Filmmaking as Art and Ethos

After a night spent on the coziest sofa in all of Appalachia, we headed up early to the top of a university parking deck, parked beneath a sign that read “No Parking / No Loitering,” and lined up the shot—my director and me, just the two of us that morning to grab a...

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Drawn to the Strange | Richmond’s Animation Festival Gets Weirder (and Better)

Randy Blythe Has Seen The Darkness, But Is Still Searching For the Light

20 Years of RVA Magazine & Gallery5 | A Farewell to Stay Gold This Friday

The Big Dipper Summit | Where Business and Culture Actually Collide

Frida: Beyond the Myth at VMFA — Disorienting, Intimate, and Absolutely Frida

A Richmond Beginning, a Typographic Legacy: Teddy Blanks In Focus

Guerrilla Filmmaking as Art and Ethos

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