Arts & Culture

The Taubman Museum of Art is celebrating 75 years with more than 200 newly acquired works, architecture tours, and launching an oral history project.

In middle age, many people consider a career change, and one Charlottesville man is going all out. His early resume features some of the best-known children’s programs on public television. Now he’s working as a death doula— a professional who helps people at the end of life.

Kellum’s VHF Records has been releasing albums since the early 1990s, issuing work across shoegaze, electronic experimentation, stringband and improvised musics.

A band from Appalachia is touring now, raising issues about this country’s current political climate.

If you’re an avid reader, you may want to mark your calendar for March 20th through the 22nd. That’s when about 150 authors will be in Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Most teenagers fantasize at some point about becoming a recording star. Now, some Roanoke Valley middle and high schoolers are getting a hands-on lesson in how to produce songs.

Seth Michelson has written a new book about those kids and other migrants he’s met. It’s called Hope on the Border.

A play about the making of a cinema classic is in the works at a community theater in Roanoke.

Giant blue boulders suspend from the ceiling and whimsical mushroom sculptures are dotted throughout the gallery in a new 3-D art exhibit on display at the Radford University art museum.

Two Roanoke institutions will pay tribute next month to a pioneering filmmaker who for three years operated out of the historic Gainsboro neighborhood, and who left a lasting mark on movies.