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...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 14, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio “Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit” is a uniquely seductive concept for an exhibition, as visitors are made to feel as though we are walking through his studio space. Organized by the VA Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, MOCA’s installation of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 22, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Intrigued that a show by an architect turned professional landscape painter—who also happens to play award-winning fiddle and banjo—was on view this winter at Virginia Wesleyan College’s Neil Britton Gallery and would be accompanied by a roots music...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 8, 2014 | Art, Art News, Art Previews
By Betsy DiJulio As Norfolk and the larger community prepares for a British invasion—the opening of Bruce Munro: Light—at the Hermitage Museum or “The Herm,” as it is quickly becoming known in it’s new, ever more progressive, and relevant form, I had an...
