Arts Culture

With feeling

For Hagan Tampellini, the current Les Yeux du Monde show felt right. “Modern Alchemy: Rosemarie Fiore & Ana Rendich” is the first exhibition conceived and curated by Tampellini, the gallery’s […]

Sarah Sargent | June 15, 2022

Arts Culture

Seeing the divine

“A few months before she passed, my mom told me she’d had a dream that she was supposed to have a show called ‘Turn on the Light!’ It would be […]

Sarah Sargent | April 20, 2022

Arts Culture

Color rush

As daily temps start to climb, and we await the vibrant colors of spring, Quirk Gallery offers a visually stunning show celebrating the work of two artists, Priscilla Whitlock and […]

Sarah Sargent | March 9, 2022

Arts Culture

All the joys of life

The Charlottesville arts community lost one of its greatest champions and brightest stars in Carolyn “Lyn” Bolen Warren, who died on Sunday, November 21, at the age of 60 after […]

Sarah Sargent | December 8, 2021

Culture

Reach for the sky

Skyscrapers, in our modern imagination, are glitzy glass needles. It wasn’t always that way. The nation’s first towers were ornate and detailed. Intrinsically American, the designs embodied the qualities we […]

Sarah Sargent | September 29, 2021

Culture

Fresh eyes

When Haitian American art collector and curator Jeanremi Verella first encountered the Sen Soley art collective during a residency in Port-Au-Prince, he knew he had to bring the artists to […]

Sarah Sargent | August 18, 2021

Culture

Following curiosity

Feeling stressed? Suffering from pandemic anxiety? Need a staycation?  “Breathe with Me” offers a special respite. Inspired by dadirri, the Aboriginal practice of deep listening, “Breathe With Me,” an installation […]

Sarah Sargent | July 28, 2021

Culture

Seeing Charlottesville

Most days, Charlottesville artist Edward Thomas could be found with his folding easel, set up on a sidewalk, by the river, or at a construction site, engaged in capturing “what […]

Sarah Sargent | May 26, 2021