Art historian, curator, and professor David Getsy has been observing how abstraction lends itself to often less obvious—though no less potent—ways of communicating aspects of queer experience and embodiment.
Les Yeux du Monde (The Eyes of the World) is a contemporary art gallery located in Charlottesville, VA. The gallery rotates exhibitions by regional, national and international contemporary artists and modern masters. Committed to education and sharing the joys of art with both the novice and collector alike, the gallery offers artists’ talks and trips to studios, museums and collections.
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July 1, 2022 | by Jeffrey Roedel, Photos by Romero & Romero. With one bare foot steering the large silver press wheel, and two hands secure around the climbing boy’s bottom, his rainboots dangling over her ash-colored shop apron, this tangle of limbs and kinetic energy somehow stands in perfect poise, producing striking prints even so. With fresh ink sinking into paper, and cotton and linen, and then resting there to stir up stories of quiet afternoons, or wild encounters, or even legends.
A $250,000 grant given to the Fralin Museum by the Henry Luce Foundation will help those of who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history.
The Virginia Theatre Festival – formerly known as the Heritage Theatre Festival – will literally and figuratively reopen its doors to the University of Virginia and local community with a season that includes a new adaptation of “Little Women,” along with “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone,” an acclaimed one-woman show about the legendary singer and civil rights activist.
