A 100-foot brick wall in Richmond’s Fan District now carries a word in bold ghost-sign lettering: RELIABILITY. Painted by local artists Noah Scalin and Alfonso Pérez Acosta, it’s the first in a four-part series of murals under the banner Trust Buildings,...
Ladies get ready to get gussied up in your finest and go out this weekend to the Robinson Theater to support the arts. Ladies get ready to get gussied up in your finest and go out this weekend to the Robinson Theater to support the arts. Art on Wheels will hold its 7th annual fundraiser, Sweetheart for the Arts, this Saturday to benefit their...
WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond's Independent Radio, is commemorating being a station for over a decade with their annual “Party for the Rest of Us” with a stacked 11 act line up performing on two stages. WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond's Independent Radio, is commemorating being a station for over a decade with their annual “Party for the Rest of Us” with a...
Kendal LeMire admits she wasn't much of a coloring book person when she was younger, but the self-described non-stop creator finds great pleasure in filling Kendal LeMire admits she wasn't much of a coloring book person when she was younger, but the self-described non-stop creator finds great pleasure in filling in the lines between larger...
One of RVA’s most well known muralists, Mickael Broth, wants visitors to "consider their own understandings of conflict, beauty, and history" in his upcoming exhibition at Black Iris, opening next week. The show is inspired by Germany’s invasion of Verdun, France in 1916. The battle would “become one of the defining battles of the First World...
Over the past six months, painter/sculptor Darryl Starr has been preparing for his forthcoming opening, scheduled for April of 2016. We last saw his work in October of 2014, at the now-departed Monument City Coffee and Records at Third and Grace Street. Fifteen-foot ceilings housed ten of his large, autobiographical abstract canvases (4’x6’,...
2015 might be defined by a lot of things... Syria, ISIS, domestic terrorism, and Drake's new hit single "Hotline Bling." 2015 might be defined by a lot of things... Syria, ISIS, domestic terrorism, and Drake's new hit single "Hotline Bling." Sorry to start that list off so rough (it's the Monday before X-mas, bare with us here), but seriously,...
Somewhere between a magazine and a zine lies Dialogue, a new print project created by Ben Cochran, a communication arts student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Somewhere between a magazine and a zine lies Dialogue, a new print project created by Ben Cochran, a communication arts student at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Dialogue came out...
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“I'm constantly trying to bridge the gap between so-called Fine Art and tattooing,” Thea Duskin of Ghostprint Gallery said of her long praised work who spend this past weekend in Miami as part of Aqua Art Miami. Aqua Art Miami, billed as an international contemporary art fair, aims to attract "increasingly diverse and distinguished exhibitors...
