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New mural in Carytown at 3101 W. Cary Street, designed by Shepard Fairey for the People For the American Way Foundation. Painted by Brian Tull and Silly Genius. Photos by Landon Shroder Support RVA Magazine. Support Independent Media in Richmond. At a time when media...




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Because None of This is Important, All of It Is.

Amid feedback loops, flickering lights, and fleeting connections at Get Tight Lounge, a local sound tech finds clarity in the chaos and meaning in the impermanence. by Eric Kalata I had to go across town first, to a different venue, to grab the microphones and...

Writer’s Block | ‘Poker Game’ by Cameron Ritter

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or...

What Does Trust Look Like? Richmond Artists Offer an Answer

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,...

Writer’s Block | Poems by Jennifer Jurlando

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or...

Review | The Bun is in the Oven—Waitress at VA Rep

On stage and in the kitchen, some recipes are meant to be followed to the letter, while some are wide open for flair and interpretation. Big Broadway musicals thrive on delivering an experience as replicable as a chain restaurant’s marquee burger. This is not a dig....

Writer’s Block | Poems by Anna Leonard

A Sunday series from RVA Magazine featuring writers from Richmond and VirginiaWriter’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or...

Waitress is the Show for Anyone Who has Ever Worked a Double

A woman works in a diner. The kind with refills, regulars, and fluorescent lights that never quite turn off. She’s married to a man who doesn’t deserve her. She bakes pies that are better than most people deserve. And she wants out. That’s Waitress, more or less....

Richmond Mural Project: MEGGS

Gotta give it to Shane at Art Whino--his line up for the Richmond Mural Project is ridiculous. Introducing one of the best in the world, flying in from his native Australia: MEGGS. Gotta give it to Shane at Art Whino--his line up for the Richmond Mural Project is ridiculous. Introducing one of the best in the world, flying in from his native...

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RVA #10: The Interview With A Street Art Original, Futura

Leonard McGur aka Futura 2000 has a career spanning over 40 years that goes back to the earliest days of the modern street art movement. He got his start painting on the New York subways back in the ‘70s when that was still possible, but soon built a career in the fine art world, beginning with his gallery showings alongside such famous New York...

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An Interview with Artist Jeff Soto

Of all the art world heavy hitters that came through RVA over the last few months, Jeff Soto just might be the heaviest. Initially inspired as a high-school student in the late 80s by pictures of New York subway art, Soto spent the 90s making a name for himself, both in his native California and around the world, with his graffiti and street...

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The G40 Art Summit Takes Over First Friday in Richmond

The G40 Art Summit presented by Art Whino and RVA Magazine celebrated its opening here in RVA on April 6 as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Over the course of that weekend, several big events were held at multiple spaces along Broad St, centered around the temporarily installed G40 Gallery, located at 115 W. Broad St. A massive amount of art,...

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G40 Art Whino 2012 Kicks Off in Richmond’s New Art District

Art Whino returns in 2012 for the third edition of G40. Following the mission of G40s past, we will once again bring exposure to lowbrow’s many faces and, as always, present what new facets emerge within this ever-growing movement. This year, G40 focuses on the "Art of the Mural." In the last five years, there have been great bursts of street...

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Inside the Retro Goldmine of Justin Blyth’s Blog

So here's the scoop on Justin Blyth - he's been busting out some seriously cool TV commercials lately. You can totally check out his big-time creative chops at www.jblyth.com. But, let me let you in on something even cooler: his blog. Picture this - a world made up entirely of images that stir up inspiration like you wouldn't believe. This isn't...

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Richmond Artist Adam Juresko has art to sell

Escaping the gravitational pull of his Richmond roots, Adam Juresko has set off towards the Pacific, taking up residence in the rhythmic, urban drumbeats of San Francisco. His days are consumed in the city's labyrinthine corridors of local libraries, eclectic art stores, and graffiti-adorned back alleys. In a quixotic quest, Adam is assembling...

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