Editor’s Note: This piece was written by a student at Randolph-Macon College as part of a feature writing course. Thank you to the students and to Professor Seth Clabough, Ph.D., for organizing the project. Where there was once a forest full of life and hidden...
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,...
Richmond Ballet's performance of Romeo & Juliet showed that the iconic Shakespeare play can still communicate a powerful message to audiences, even when the dialogue is replaced by dance. Last month at the Dominion Energy Center, the Richmond Ballet, alongside the Richmond Symphony, premiered Romeo & Juliet for packed audiences that...
I was introduced to Flying Geese and Jennifer Rho a few weeks ago and fell down a rabbit hole of handmade items from in and around Richmond. In our modern technology-obsessed world, it might feel like backward thinking to embrace artisanal crafting, but with the world coming out of a global lockdown a lot of us are searching for something that...
When the five lights of brilliant wisdom dawn, Fearlessly, bravely, may I know them as myself! When the forms of the Lords mild and fierce arise, Bold and fearless, may I recognize the between!...
Atlanta artist Taylor Wright Rushing is finishing up his three-month residence at Graduate Richmond this week with an exhibition of his hippie-hillbilly aesthetic. In conversation with Annie Parnell, he spoke of his time soaking up Richmond's inspiring vibes and pouring them into his work. “I really tried to imagine what it must have been like at...
There is a quiet confidence you can feel in people with conviction. Baldeep Pooni has conviction wrapped in a sense of deep consideration. What is happening right now? How is his presence affecting those around him? He speaks with purpose and explains himself carefully. I have met a lot of people in the city but how many people have I met who do...
