Let’s get cracking on the Clay Street connector between the convention center and Court End with its architectural and historic treasures from neoclassical to art deco.
Edwin Slipek
(Slipek) Breathtaking beauty amid centuries of bloodshed: ‘Samurai’ at the VMFA
(Guest Commentary) If a recent weekday visit to the exhibition and a “wind-shield” survey of attendance are indicative, the word is out on a visually jaw-dropping, intellectually stimulating and surprisingly moving experience.
Slipek: Virginia Union takes on residential real estate development (Guest Commentary)
Last month, as a back-handed slap to Black History Month no less, Virginia Union announced plans to demolish the abandoned, but sturdy Richmond Community Hospital to open up a site for 130 housing units.
Slipek: Thoughts on enlivening the Eastern Quadrant of the Capitol Square complex
(Guest Commentary) Ideas include constructing infill office structures at the top of the hill, and establishing a park-like grand promenade that would crown and celebrate the old hillside architecturally while offering vistas of other Richmond hills and landmarks.
Slipek: With Capitol Square resuscitation on the horizon, a brief history of the lost Council Chamber Hill neighborhood
(Guest Commentary) If the asphalt could speak, it’d remind us that this eastward sloping hillside was once a densely populated, mixed-use caldron of human activity.
Slipek: Melding the past and present photographically in two master exhibitions at the VMFA
(Guest Commentary) These respective presentations, impeccably installed, feel like more than art exhibitions; they are like a symphony in Bey’s case, or in Wright’s evolution, a serious musical play.
(Slipek) Community Assets Part 2: For whom the bell tolled in 2023
This is the second of columnist Edwin Slipek’s two-part feature of prominent local personalities and leaders who passed away in 2023.
(Slipek) Community Assets: For whom the bell tolled in 2023
Our broader family, the Richmond community, has felt the loss in 2023 of many impressive folks whose example and deeds will continue to affect us. (Guest Commentary)
Slipek: In ‘The Holdovers’ film, the joke’s on a nearby boarding school
(Guest Commentary) Richmond movie goers are being caught unawares — jolted even — when “The Holdovers” targets a respected, 126-year-old prep school located just up the road in rural Fluvanna County.
Slipek: Three ideas for Richmond’s architectural future (Guest Commentary)
How can Richmond be proactive in drafting and initiating a fresh, imaginative and practical narrative for respecting and building upon the past? Here are three ideas.