This past weekend, the 36th Annual 2nd Street Festival once again took over Jackson Ward, and if you weren’t there, you missed one of Richmond’s most enduring cultural throwdowns. October 5-6 saw thousands descend on this historic neighborhood, basking in flawless...
JOHN: How did you get started? As far as art in general? JESSE: I used to copy Garbage Pail Kids and skateboard designs out of thrasher magazine and pretty much my dad would ground me, he’d send me up to my room and I would just spend the whole time copying stuff. JOHN: Really? What age was that? JESSE: I got this sketchbook that I started when I...
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Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual works and works in series, it's nice to see stencil work that's largely apolitical and presented on canvas. Not that I don't love seeing quick-up work on walls; to scoff at such work would be to piss on the origins of stencils as art. Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual...
Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. That being said,...
It pains me to write this but illustrator Frank Frazetta has passed away leaving the world a bit colder. His work was the supernova that created the visual standard for the sword and sorcery fantasy story. Fearless heroes in untamed worlds surrounded by impossible situations and ungodly creatures of the nigh. His villians were pure evil and his...
What do organic stones, Japanese anime, and future fantasies have in common? They were all inspiration for the Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Annual Juried Fashion Show, "Twenty Ten". The fashion show was hosted at the new addition to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in the Louise B and J Harwood Cochrane Center. As guest arrived...
From the blog of former superstar RVA intern and hated Suns fan, Neil Lopez. Check it HERE. This semester the VCU School of MASC has undergone a renovation process of sorts on the Temple building. By now, you will have noticed that all those stained-white squared walls have started to change into colorful murals. Here is a bit from the Mass Comm...
For all the young, fresh faced, illustrators coming out of college in a few weeks, I present one of my personal favorites David Foldvari. You might have seen his work in the editorial pages of your parent's news magazines or papers. He is one of the best at taking the complex political editorial and boiling it down to a single image....
Thank you to Marcus Hyde for putting together our fashion content for this issue. Enjoy. Thank you to Marcus Hyde for putting together our fashion content for this issue. Enjoy. For more on Marcus and his work go to marcushydemedia.com. Check the rest of it below the break. stylist Alison Beshai makeup Meredith Lee photographer Marcus Hyde FOR...
The physical copies of the new RVA Magazine will be on the streets by Wednesday. Here is a sample of what's inside. If you can't wait, you can check out the web copy here or with the other cover here. Major post tomorrow. There are two kinds of TV watchers: people who can do something while they watch (eating doesn’t count as doing something),...
