Video: Anthony Restivo’s performance art piece opens at the Bridge
"Far Off and All Aflame" will be fueled by apples
What’s going on this weekend?
A look at this week’s First Friday listings, plus some good shows to check out
Finally, a class in guerilla knitting at a reasonable price point!
Check out the new Charlottesville Trade School listings
Art in place
Thanks to Marina Abramovic’s sweeping retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last year, 2010 was in some ways the year that performance art entered the public awareness. “The Artist is Present” greeted viewers with shocking images: A totally nude woman, and clearly in pain, balanced on a thin seat that jutted […]
The Fates Will Find Their Way; Hannah Pittard; Ecco, 225 pages
Hannah Pittard’s name may be familiar because it was attached to the unopened Belmont restaurant Southern Crescent that fomented controversy in that neighborhood. But she is more widely known for a buzzed-about debut novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way that fomented a bidding war between publishers (Ecco won), which is about a tragedy not […]
Subverting with Verdi
The Nazis at the Terezin concentration camp took a cruel sort of pleasure in hearing the motley chorus of Jews sing a dramatic piece of music about death. The Jewish prisoners, for their part, relished the opportunity to sing a passionate work to their oppressors about what awaits sinners come judgment day. Both emotions were […]
Hannah Pittard’s “The Fates Will Find Their Way” in the NYTimes, Post book review
The debut novelist makes a splash with her first
Ask men about music tonight (while eating pizza)
Check out this "Men in Music" panel tonight at CitySpace
What’s going on this weekend?
Final Fridays exhibits at UVA, indie rock, songwriters, and breakneck theater