by Jeff Maisey | Apr 30, 2019 | Art, Current Exhibits, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray An evening that will grab your soul is coming to Portsmouth at 7 p.m., May 2 with an iconic performance of the legendary Blues Maker Blues Review at Roger Brown’s Restaurant and Sports Bar on downtown High Street. It is a production of Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 11, 2018 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
By Jeff Maisey The proof is in the shot. Sometimes one single image captures the heart and soul not only of the viewer, but of the subject itself. Often such images happen by chance — being in the right place at the right time. The photographer must always be at...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 19, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Exhibitions at the TCC VAC are always a pleasant viewing experience. Shelley Brooks knows how to edit and install beautiful shows in that attractive facility. And the faculty members and administrators—past and present—are practicing,...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Enchanted by Glass is, to be sure, a story about legendary designer, craftsman, and businessman, René Lalique (1860-1945), and his seemingly enchanted career that burgeoned during a time of artistic, scientific, and technological flourishing in...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2017 | Art, Art News, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Recently, I was treated to a preview of Wayne’s World. No, not that Wayne’s World. Not even close. No, this is the world that Wayne White, of Pee Wee’s Playhouse fame, has created for MOCA based on the two-day Battle of Hampton Roads when, in 1862,...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 22, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
By Jim Roberts Crizti Walsh has spent many of her nights and weekends the last two and a half years painting an eclectic bunch of characters. Among them: a trapeze artist, a voodoo priestess, a woman with progeria and a Tanzanian albino. She said that painting these...