Arts Culture

McGuffey’s summer show offers plenty of the weird and wonderful

Presenting a broad survey of disciplines and conceptual concerns, McGuffey Art Center’s “All Member Summer Show” highlights the diverse output made by member artists of Charlottesville’s downtown arts hub. From unexpected and eccentric assemblage and sculpture to alluring paintings in lush oil and vivid watercolor, the two-floor showcase offers an incredible amount of art to […]

CM Turner | July 29, 2026

Feature News

How postmodern dance influenced the Downtown Mall

For the past 50 years, Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall has been a site in and of transition. The blocking off and bricking up of East Main Street, completed on July 3, 1976, converted the city’s main drag into a pedestrian promenade and central business district that aimed to keep consumers and community members in place. But […]

CM Turner | June 24, 2026

Culture Feature

Art advisor Susanna Gold launches new non-traditional gallery in Crozet

Situated across the street from King Family Vineyards in Crozet, nestled among a stand of trees at the edge of pasturelands, a 1929 farmhouse offers the opportunity to explore exciting visual art within a vibrant and welcoming domestic setting.  Visitors to the non-traditional gallery at Folly Farm won’t find paintings of hunt scenes or hayfields […]

CM Turner | November 19, 2025

Arts Culture

Visible Records’ ‘Return of the Triumphal Mother’ illustrates the overlap of art and life

“Return of the Triumphal Mother” at Visible Records shares a series of new works by Dani and Sheilah ReStack, including a site-specific projection installation. The exhibition by the ReStacks, who are life partners as well as frequent artistic collaborators, “continues their imagining of queer family, desire, relationship and fantasy.”  In service of this, the artists […]

CM Turner | June 25, 2025

Arts Culture

Dawn Hanson’s contemporary protest art at McGuffey Art Center

“What’s Left? What’s Right?,” an interdisciplinary exhibition of politically charged artworks by Dawn Hanson, leaves little question about where the artist stands in relation to the current presidential administration and conservative America at large.  The self-proclaimed Liberal Artist carries on a long lineage of creators who have used their work as forms of resistance and […]

CM Turner | March 26, 2025

Arts Culture

Indie comic collaborators release a gritty new series

A new independent comic book from local artist Wil Smith and Richmond-based writer Joshua Eadie explores a dystopian near-future through a cyberpunk story packed with gritty pulp action. Southtown, self-published by Smith and Eadie with co-creators Ally Slawson and Mallorie Mize, offers a neo-noir narrative tied to capitalist critique, corporate malfeasance, and the authenticity found […]

CM Turner | March 12, 2025

Arts Culture

Holly Wright ruminates on the human body in The Fralin’s exhibition

With three series of black-and-white photographs depicting various aspects of the human form, “Holly Wright: Vanity” brings themes of corporeality, communication, and mortality into focus. Wright, who taught photography at UVA for 16 years and helped build the university’s museum collection of photo-based works, presents lyrical and contemplative images in her first solo show at […]

CM Turner | January 1, 2025

Arts Culture

Holly Wright ruminates on the human body in The Fralin’s exhibition

With three series of black-and-white photographs depicting various aspects of the human form, “Holly Wright: Vanity” brings themes of corporeality, communication, and mortality into focus. Wright, who taught photography at UVA for 16 years and helped build the university’s museum collection of photo-based works, presents lyrical and contemplative images in her first solo show at […]

CM Turner | January 1, 2025

Arts Culture

‘Picasso, Lydia, & Friends, Vol. V.’ at LYDM

Opportunities to see works by a modern master of art in an intimate gallery setting do not often arise in our part of the world. Les Yeux du Monde provides just that with its current exhibition, “Picasso, Lydia, & Friends, Vol. V.”  The show brings together six prints by Pablo Picasso with contemporary works from […]

CM Turner | October 16, 2024