With a Rebel Yell

I'm zipping over to Richmond today to see "Artificial Light", an exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts VCU's Anderson Gallery featuring new works by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Ivan Navarro, Nathaniel Rackowe, and Douglas Ross. Should be a bang-up fall show—it's near the top of my list for fall destinations—and a real feather in curator John Ravenal's cap. Much of the art world will have a chance to see it in December when it hits Miami, coinciding with "Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light." Then it's studio visits and drinks with Lily Cox-Richard, who's kindly agreed to show me around town.

Now, I'm led by another friend to understand that Richmond has an unusually high density of hipsters. Doesn't matter to me one way or another but I just find it hard to believe. Is this really true? The city that hosts the Museum of the Confederacy? I expect to see a cadre of beleaguered white-belts huddled around a table in the VCU student union, but we'll see.

CORRECTION: Whistle my Dixie—VCU's Anderson Gallery is hosting "Artificial Light." Correction noted.