“Skateboarding and building ramps is the one thing that has had the biggest impact on my work,”said local artist Kyle Falzone, who recently received a $4,000 grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for his work in mixed media. The grant, which the museum gives out...
Kehinde Wiley on how he fell in love with his craft and the message behind the art at Friday’s VMFA artist talk
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts held an Artist Talk with contemporary painter Kehinde Wiley last Friday. The nationally known New York-based artist’s popular 55-piece exhibit, A New Republic, is currently on display at the museum. Check out RVA Mag's preview and...
A look at nationally known artist Kehinde Wiley’s ‘A New Republic’ ahead of opening at VMFA Saturday
One simple mug shot. A crumbled up mug shot of an African American man tossed away on the streets of New York led nationally renowned artist Kehinde Wiley to change the way African Americans are depicted in art, and draw attention to the absence of people of color in...
Local artists Valerie Molnar and Matthew Spahr on the art of rehabilitating plants
Valerie Molnar and Matthew Spahr want to make plants happy, and will try almost anything to do it. Valerie Molnar and Matthew Spahr want to make plants happy, and will try almost anything to do it. Having successfully rehabilitated house plants as part of an...
Richmond’s BEST Stores were street art before street art was a thing
The same family that brought contemporary art to Virginia were pushing the idea of what a retail store should look like in the 1970s and 80s. Check out these (almost) forgotten photos and article from Failed Architecture on the influence of the Sydney Lewis Family...
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