The ceilings were all collapsing. The moldering roof was seeping through to the drywall and paint inside. What was once a small emerald speck of mold above the shower had turned into a fuzzy kaleidoscope of blacks and pinks and grays and greens that coated the entire...
CRIMINOLOGIST: I would like…if I may…to take you on a strange journey. ROCKY HORROR AUDIENCE ASKING: How strange was it? ROCKY HORROR AUDIENCE ANSWERING: So strange they made a movie about it. Hello Richmond. What are you doing the night BEFORE Halloween? My recommendation? Yes, And! Presents: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cover to Cover at...
If you visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on a regular basis, you will no doubt be familiar with its extensive and varied collection; their remarkable permanent collection of artworks is over 50,000 strong. However, the ever-changing featured exhibition is often a hidden gem inside this world-renowned art museum. Over the last several years,...
First Friday in the Arts District is one of the best monthly traditions that Richmond has, one that residents flock to, as well as other people from up and down the East Coast. For the better part of 17 years, Gallery 5 has been at the forefront of this experience. First Friday is a celebration of the arts and creative culture, and Gallery5 has...
Richmond loves a good mural, and for many of us, the recent occurrence of RVA Street Art Festival's tenth anniversary reunion at the Canal Walk just whets our appetite. It's for us, therefore, that Three Notch'd RVA Collab House hosts the Leave Your Mark Mural Fest at their Scott's Addition this Friday. The plan was originally for the event to...
The sun was shining on a beautiful September morning, and everything I had ever known and loved was gone. The Wednesday before the RVA Street Art Festival was to begin, I ventured down to the canal walk to see the foundation work take place for the new murals that were to come. I was nervous to do so. That space, which had often found me and my...
RVA Street Art Festival celebrates the tenth anniversary of its first event in 2012 at the place where things began: the abandoned power plant along Richmond's Canal Walk where that first festival took place. The jury's still out on whether time really is a flat circle. After all, if True Detective season one character Rust Cohle were really...
From now until October 9, the people of Richmond have the unique opportunity to see “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition” at Stony Point Fashion Park. I was given the chance to explore the exhibit and speak with Noah Espinola, a representative of See Global Entertainment (the company that produced the exhibit) the night before it opened...
At Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters In France, on display now at the VMFA, viewers see American artists explore history through an expatriate's eye and move through the artistic evolution from tonalism to impressionism's attempt to capture life as it happens. RVA Mag's S. Preston Duncan explains. In the beginning, art is exact, moral,...
2022 has meant the return of a ton of things that, back at the start of the pandemic, we thought were lost. Concerts. Theme parks. And now, the return of popular pop culture convention GalaxyCon to Richmond. Over the course of one three-day weekend in March, GalaxyCon returned to the Greater Richmond Convention Center, attracting cosplayers,...
