It took 25 people a total of 400 hours to assemble Jeanne Drevas’ “Grove,” on display in February at Charlottesville’s Second Street Gallery. The 12 by 24 foot work is comprised of over 1200 heavy cylindrical bamboo stalks, called...more

The Wounded Bookshop has a fitting name; along with dusty shelves of yellowing hardcovers and curling paperbacks, the 17th century warehouse has creaky floors, chipped paint and no central heating.“It’s a pretty hardy building and...more

Is there really “Narration in Recent Painting?” To say that narrative has returned to painting is, perhaps, an overstatement in that the stories told by these paintings are implied, not revealed or fully realized. Yet, this brilli...more

The sacred is at the root of most African art, with the Yoruba being no exception. The art on display had an original purpose of being used in ritual; its original intention was not to be part of this wonderful exhibit, Embodying ...more

How pristine and sacred the x/y axis—so malleable and seemingly so viable to contemporary art that it really ought to have its own designation like still lifes, portraits and landscapes. Whether pronounced as in Mondrian’s reducti...more

An environment where a lush, fragrant atmosphere surrounds the ghosts of an ancient past; a land with a bewildering variety of fresh, abundant food and wine, populated by a cynical, self-absorbed people gifted with an inborn sense...more

INSIDE THIS ISSUE #5 SPRING 2009

DESIgN
I Dream of Knick-Knacks: Lara Koplin’s Genie Bottles are Intriguing Trompe-l'œil Objets d'art
Cover Story: Mark Lipscombe Rethinks Form Over Function
Downtown Loft Tour 2009: A Preview of Richmond’s Urban, Chic Residences
Spectacular Spectrum: Interior designer Patti Ryan wants to help you color your world
Brilliantly Neutral: Interior designer Kathy Corbet shares how to make a neutral room warm and captivating
Palette Savvy: Warm Green Tones for 2009

IMAgINE
Cafe Conversations: Richmond genre artist Greig Leach captures the social intricacies of everyday life
William Fletcher Jones: A guru of Richmond’s Underground Art
New Location & Partners: The Arts Council of Richmond Evolves
Art Works for Virginia: Activist and Professor Nikki Giovanni Presented the Keynote
Andy Warhol at University of Richmond: 153 Original Photos Added to the Permanent Collection
Parks Duffey: Petersburg’s Consummate Primitive Painter Tackles The New Political Landscape
Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #541”
Elegant Complexity: Joseph Di Bella’s Mixed Media Employs Material as Metaphor
Richard Weisman at UMW
20th Century Masterpieces Make a Big Bang at UVA
The Hand and the Soul: LeWitt, Slutzky, Iliescu On View at UVa Art Museum
Central Virginia’s Off the Clock Photography Exhibit

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gallery Reviews
Christopher Quirk at 1708 Gallery
Embodying the Sacred in Yoruba Art hosted by VCU’s Anderson Gallery
Form and Story: Narration in Recent Painting Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond
Ryan Poe at The Athenaeum’s Wounded Bookshop
Jeanne Drevas at Second Street Gallery
The Dutch Italianates: Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from the Dulwich Picture Gallery at The Muscarelle Museum of Art in the College of William and Mary

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ENTERTAININg
Springtime in Jefferson’s Wine Country; Richmond’s Movieland Opens; Sip Spring; Gourmet Gadgets; Satiate Your Sweet Tooth With a Key Lime Cupcake

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SPLURgE
All About the Children: Handmade and durable inspirations for fun; Just Ride Like When You Were a Kid

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gLITZ & gLAM
Hot, Hot, Hot Handbags; More Accessories at 2 Best Friends; Tame Your Tummy; World Fibers & Fabrics; Tales of Fashion; Guys, Dress Outside Your Comfort Zone

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SONgFEST
The Great Escape: Core87 at The National;
Prabir and the Substitutes
Ra Ra Riot in Fredericksburg
Real Country: Jim Waive & the Young Divorcees
C’ville Sound Check
Gills and Wings

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SCREENINg ROOM
Richmond’s 6th Italian Film and Food Festival

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ONSTAgE
A Thirst for Theater: Ask actor d.l. Hopkins what he does, and his answer might surprise you.
Richmond Ballet’s Djangology
Eleone Dance Theatre
Richmond Symphony’s Video Games Live
Nights at the Opera
Spring Preview: Williamsburg’s Kimball Theater

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PAgES
The Auction: Richmond art collector Jane Joel Knox is the author of the upcoming book A Celebration of Art: Notes from a Collector
Book Reviews
Mulligans by Charlie David
Breaking Spirit Bridge by Ruth Perkinson
Holy Faces, Holy Places by Vienna Cobb Anderson