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NY artist Rudy Shepherd reexamines current events with ‘We Are All Trayvon Martin’ exhibit at 1708 Gallery

Ever contemplated the overlap of art and reality? With television shows like Law & Order: SVU tapping into national headlines as influence in its plot, paintings and drawings can also explore the people and personalities that make the news. That’s what Rudy...

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Dissociative Gaze Into The Abyss: A Sunday Essay

Is the revival of the 2014 Tumblr girl how the internet copes with the end of the world? The dissociative pout, also referred to as the dissociative gaze, was first coined by i-D Magazine in the 2022 article “The cult of the dissociative pout” by Rayne Fisher-Quann,...

Making Something Beautiful: The Artists Of 2022’s RVA Street Art Festival, Volume 1

In mid-September, I spent four very long days down at the RVA Street Art Festival, a public celebration of many talented Richmond-based artists (read the original article here), and I learned a lot about a scene and culture that previously I knew next to nothing...

Enter The Rocky Horror-Verse

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...

Storied Strings at The VMFA: These Strings Tell Stories (And Kill Fascists)

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...

No Fire? No Problem! Carnival of 5 Fires is set to light up First Fridays

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....

Muralists Leave Their Mark At Three Notch’d Friday

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...

Any Wall They Can: Painting Murals At The 2022 RVA Street Art Festival

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...

The Theory Of Mural Return

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...

“Dearest Margaret”: Local painter honors late loved ones & explores sentimentality in Quirk Gallery exhibit

By RVA Staff

Mary Scurlock, a local painter and mixed media artist, was cleaning out her mother Margaret’s attic when she found over 50 letters that were decaying and on their way to falling apart. The letters, dating from May to September of 1957, were exchanged between her parents. Her father, who was in the Navy and serving overseas, wrote her mother...

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