I don’t care how energetically Johnny rosins up his bow, Karen Briggs will still win that fiddle of gold. On 8/14/2011 at the Richmond Jazz Festiva...

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A long, long time ago Howard Roark was my initiation to the significance of architecture as a supreme art form, and just a few days ago my attendance at the 25th birthday celebration of BCWH Architects (8/5/2011) was my initiation to a nice way for an architecture firm to celebrate an anniversary: by spotlighting student artworks along with the firm’s own work.

 

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Media impressions are what you count to determine how well you’ve done in a marketing campaign. At the 7/26/2011 C3 Breakfast Club, I heard VMFA’s director of marketing Bob Tarren present a talk entitled, “The VMFA Looks Back at its Marketing of Picasso: What Worked? What Didn’t?”

 

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B.J. Kocen in drag singing Liza? Stephen Ryan as a sock hand puppet?  Throw in the multi-rolled Kimberly Jones Clark, what-was-she-thinking ...

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Artworks can transport you. On 8/29/2011 I viewed the Pine Camp Arts and Community Center’s “Summer Artist Series” exhibition in the lobby of Richmond...

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When is “act locally, think globally” not expansive enough? The Science Museum of Virginia provoked my thoughts on almost a weekly basis when my children were growing up, and it did so again on 7/23/2011.

 

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