If you’re a broke student back in Richmond and already sick of the dining hall’s gray meatloaf, relax, this city won’t let you starve. The food here has always been a patchwork of dives, diners, and half-chaotic kitchens that somehow keep the student body alive. You...
Baltimore artist GAIA has returned to RVA again this year to contribute a piece to the 2013 Richmond Mural Project. Having previously worked with us for the G40 Street Art Festival last year (his piece is on a wall at 11 W. Grace St), we already knew that GAIA was an excellent artist and all-around rad dude, so it's great to have him back in town...
Argentinian street artist EVER has recently finished a new project at Selba, bringing his unique artistic vision to the vibrant Richmond art scene. This morning, we captured shots of the work. These images by Marc Schmidt offer a glimpse into the creative process and dedication that go into each mural, highlighting the meticulous effort and...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Richmond Mural Project is one step closer to being a reality. A sequel to Art Whino's 2012 G40 Mural Project, which brought dozens of new murals to RVA throughout April of last year, this new mural project hopes bring us 20 new murals from 10 different internationally known artists during the month of July 2013. Ladies...
As a former history major who wrote my senior thesis about theater as a form of edification for Richmond society (what was I smoking?), I felt like a hypocrite for not visiting the Valentine History Center since moving to RVA. Having heard heaps of praise about what is colloquially called the “tattoo exhibit,” I decided I could no longer put off...
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,...
We made the paper! Here is a snippet of the front page story featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch today about the G40. Downtown Richmond is being transformed into an outdoor art gallery. Artists from around the world have begun painting murals on buildings in the Broad Street corridor for a monthlong art show, G40 Art Summit – Richmond. Last...
Over the course of their nearly three-decade career, The Flaming Lips have undergone a series of surprising metamorphoses and unconventional detours on their path to becoming an alternative rock institution. So it might come as a surprise to learn they’ve spent most of that time signed to Warner Bros.—one of the most traditional major labels in...
It’s a pastime dear to any Richmonder’s heart. When you first moved here, you were grossed out by the prospect of hunting through disgusting, trash-juice-covered trash cans, looking for things to put in your house. But as you grimly watched your friends pull treasure after treasure out of those lovable, smelly alleyways, you had a change of...
In a university gymnasium on a hot Saturday afternoon, parents and their teenage children gathered in excited anticipation for a high school graduation ceremony. This threshold of adolescence offers hope for a future and a belief in a justified path. Five miles away, on a street corner in a trendy shopping district in Richmond, Virginia, sat two...
