by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Maybe it was the opportunity to meet the artist, drive a golf cart on a beautiful late-summer day, and help install one of the outdoor sculptures for her show. Or maybe it was the opening party: settling with close friends into chi-chi white lounge...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Art News, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Cities across America are now tapping into the performing and visual arts to breathe new life and vibrancy into downtown areas. It is a trend taking hold from Nashville to Asheville, but certainly no surprise to Rob Cross. As the Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 25, 2015 | Art News, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey On April 18, VEER Magazine reported d’Art Center and Selden Arcade would be closed for 5 to 6 months after a gas-line explosion left the interior of the Norfolk landmark damaged, displacing dozens of resident artists, the city’s Cultural Affairs Office...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio The Hermitage is an historic house museum. But it’s not just an historic house museum, nor even the same historic house museum that it once was. While it could be said that any museum is never quite the same as the day before, the staff and...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 11, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey The world of graffiti art comes to life in a new exhibition at Work | Release. Dubbed “Nobody Writes Letters Anymore,” outsider artists such as Mickael Broth, Noah Larmz, “Frank Ape” creator Brandon Sines, and Chris “Apes” Peters provide a taste...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 13, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Jeff Maisey Imagine looking through your attic or closet and uncovering a gift from long ago – like 54 years ago. That’s essentially what happened to Alex Mann, Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art, when he happened upon a series of...
