by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2019 | Art, Art News
(The Heart Stompers perform Saturday at 5:00 PM during the Stockley Gardens Arts Festival) By Ron Wray Neighborhoods, like people, have personalities. They have bloodlines running through them. Norfolk’s Ghent community’s Stockley Gardens Fall Arts Festival, now in...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 9, 2019 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
(“MeToo: Intersected” by Betsy DiJulio) By Staff Local visual artists Betsy DiJulio, Knox Garvin and Anne Bousquet have collaborated on a conceptual exhibition reflecting on the #MeToo movement. Titled “Groundswell: Gender, Power & the Body Politic,” the trio of...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 9, 2019 | Art, Art News
(Michael Jurist, “Poppies”) By Michael Curry The Port Warwick Art and Sculpture Festival, taking place over the weekend of October 12 and 13, should be a definite addition to your to do list for the Fall. Set in Styron Square in the center of Port Warwick in Newport...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 24, 2019 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Betsy DiJulio Late in August, I caught up with artist Judith Schaechter and Chrysler Museum curator of glass, Carrie Needell, by phone in advance of Schaechter’s exhibition opening in late September. When, fairly early on, Schaechter said, “I’m familiar with...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2019 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
Michael Kagan’s With All The Fucking Force (2011) By Jeff Maisey Ground control to Major….Kagan. If pop star David Bowie were alive today we can only assume he’d have a strong interest in the paintings of Michael Kagan. Bowie, like many recording artists of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 25, 2019 | Art, Art News
By Betsy DiJulio Not to be confused with the old Virginia Beach Center for the Arts which, over the past few decades, evolved into MOCA, the Virginia Beach Art Center (VBAC) is its own thing, though a similarly long time in coming. VBAC’s home, a beautiful...
