Hannah Shaban leaves her audience with a gift. The first 86 visitors--the number of clay cups to survive the kiln--leave her VCU Graduate Candidacy Exhibition with full hands and a better understanding of what it means to be Arab American. The opening night of...
Truthful Witnessing: Images From The Black Photographers Annual At The VMFA
James Baldwin, hands clasped behind his back, stares off-camera in the black and white photo that opens Truthful Witnessing: The Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The arresting image by Anthony Barboza doesn’t appear within the...
‘Dirtscraper’: Diving Into the ICA’s Virtual Reality Exhibit
Upon opening, VCU’s new Institute for Contemporary Art opened gave visitors several inspiring and thought-provoking exhibits such as Betty Tompkins’ paintings “WOMEN Words”, and Paul Rucker’s “Storm in the Time of Shelter”, featuring life-sized figures wearing the...
Artist Jamie Phillips Gives New Life to Discarded Objects with Latest Exhibit, ‘Urban Assemblage’
The old cliché, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, rings true in the work of Jamie Phillips, who uses discarded objects and refuse to create meticulous assemblage pieces. On display through June 9 at Visual Art Studio on West Broad Street, the Virginia Beach...
RVA Mag’s First Fridays Picks May 2018
It finally feels like spring in Richmond--the city went from a clammy winter chill to a dry heat in the span of a week--which means even a simple walk down the block is enough to get you sweating. It would almost be easier to stay inside. But if you, like us, suffer...
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