Extra: A complex swirl of

Wednesday 10/26

music

Daniel Nunnelee. More Lovely Together Tour. $12-15, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com Open Mic Night. Come out and enjoy the fun, or sign up and be on stage. Free, 9pm. Holly’s Diner, 1221 E. Market St. facebook. com/HollysDinerCville The Wavelength. A midweek music boost. Free, 6:30pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com Whitney. The Chicago duo’s album SPARK is full of buoyant drum loops, effortless falsetto hooks, and coruscant keyboard lines. $34-38, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

words

A Conversation with Gayle Jessup White and

Kristopher Castle. Jessup White discusses her book Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy with artist Kristopher Castle. Free, 6pm. Phaeton Gallery, 114 Old Preston Ave. phaetongallery.com

classes

Crafty Date Night. Enjoy a complimentary beverage with every craft purchase. Free, 6pm. Pikasso Swig Craft Bar, 333 Second St. SE. pikassoswig.com Paint & Sip. Learn to paint a fall landscape. $40, 6pm. Pro Re Nata, 6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke., Crozet. catelynkelseydesigns.com

outside

Farmers in the Park. Local farmers with seasonal produce and meats, cut and potted flowers, baked goods, hot meals, value-added products, prepared food, and crafts. Free, 3pm. Farmers in the Park, 300 Meade Ave. charlottesville.gov

etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art.

Explore the only museum in the U.S. devoted to Indigenous Australian art. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Thursday 10/27

music

Badfish. A tribute to Sublime. $20-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com Berto and Vincent. A night of wild gypsy rumba and Latin guitar. Free, 7pm. The Bebedero, 225 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thebebedero.com Stray Fossa. With Films On Song and Yard Sale. $10-12, 8pm. The Southern Café & Music Hall, 103 S. First St. thesoutherncville.com

stage

Sense and Sensibility. Follow the destitute Dashwood sisters as they navigate life and love affairs in gossip-obsessed 19th-century English society. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. drama.virginia.edu

words

Landscape and Fieldwork in a Changing Climate: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the An-

thropocene. With Ömür Harmansahv, director of the school of art and art history, and associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Free, 6:30pm. Campbell Hall 160, UVA Grounds. art.as.virginia.edu

Something borrowed

Buddhist art at The Fralin shows cultural exchanges

By Erika Howsare

arts@c-ville.com

Remixing, riffing, playing with memes: These are artistic modes that we sometimes think of as belonging to our own time, as though it was only in the 20th century, and only in Western countries, that artists began to knowingly recycle material. Think Roy Lichtenstein, Beastie Boys, and anybody who’s used the image of RBG’s lace collars. But artmaking has involved self-conscious imitation for a lot longer, and in a lot more places—including several hundred years ago in Asia, as revealed in “Earthly Exemplars,” a small exhibition of Buddhist art now showing at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA.

“The exhibition features materials mainly from the 17th through 19th centuries,” says curator Clara Ma. “That was a time when there was lots of cultural exchange and diplomatic exchange between Qing China and Tibet, and also there are connections between China and Edo Japan through trade.” In choosing pieces to highlight—from elaborate paintings called thangkas to sculpture to an astonishing painting on the leaf of a Bodhi tree—Ma hopes to demonstrate that China, Tibet, and Japan were involved in a complex swirl of cross-influences.

Walking into the show at The Fralin, that concept probably wouldn’t hit you immediately. Instead, you might be struck by the delicacy and precision of, say, a painting from Tibet, made in the 17th or 18th century, showing the Goddess of the Victorious White Parasol. She has a long name (Ushnisha Sitatapatra), a thousand faces, and a thousand arms, which are actually depicted in a dizzying, overlapping arrangement like a sunburst or a bullseye. Her ferocious power—maybe even greater than a Supreme Court justice—contrasts with the serenity of the deities around her, and the loveliness of flowers and leaves.

Or you might be drawn to a thangka, also Tibetan, showing the life story of Pindola Bharadvaja, an arhat—a disciple of the Buddha, that is, venerated in his own right. In this piece, he sits on a throne in the center of the painting, surrounded by vignettes from his biography. The piece is lush and rich, even with a constrained palette of red, green, blue, and white; it conjures a whole world and a lifetime. And Ma says its landscape, and the ornate Chinese-style throne on which the arhat sits, are elements a Tibetan artist would have borrowed from the art of the Qing dynasty. “There would be missionaries or diplomats the Qing sent to Tibet with gifts of paintings, or vice versa,” she explains.

THE FRALIN MUSEUM OF ART AT UVA

Selected pages from Studies of Ancient Masters (Gakko-jˉo), Kanˉo Tsunenobu (Japan, ca. 1695) Ink and color on silk and paper.

In choosing pieces to highlight—from elaborate paintings called thangkas to sculpture to an astonishing painting on the leaf of a Bodhi tree—Ma hopes to demonstrate that China, Tibet, and Japan were involved in a complex swirl of cross‑influences.

“So the style or the composition, they got influenced through these exchanges.”

She says we can think of these connections like souvenirs—bringing home a new idea for how an image could look or a technology for making something, like the woodblock print that closes the show. But maybe an even better analogy is fashion. To get dressed is to refer to any number of cultures and histories, making oneself a living library of clothes. A Japanese album from around 1695, made by a court painter named Kanō Tsunenobu, amounts to an artistic wardrobe: Tsunenobu used the album to demonstrate his mastery of different painting styles, including the loose, poetic look of the paintings Ma highlights.

“The way he created it was to study Chinese painting at the court,” she says. “At the time, China was the center of Zen, and lots of Japanese monks went to China. They’d bring back a lot of the Chinese paintings. He’s making the claim, setting up that lineage for his own art school: ‘We have these deep connections, our school has this long history.’”

It sounds very modern, like a 21st-century piano student learning Bach one day and Scott Joplin the next. “I guess one way to see that is that these artists, for them to establish their own identity is not to come up with something totally new, it’s to connect themselves to different traditions.”

There’s even another layer of borrowing going on here, she points out—one that she wasn’t able to represent in this show. “They are all making connections to India,” she says, “but I didn’t select any Indian artworks. It’s all about these regions trying to connect back to India.”

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Thursday 10/27

MFA Reading Series. Fiction and poetry students from the University of Virginia’s MFA program in creative writing read from their work. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com Narrating Rap, Narrating Law. A two-day event on the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials. Free with registration, time and location vary. soundjusticelab.org

etc.

Arts From Underground. Artmaking, drinks, and karaoke inside The Looking Glass. Free, 7pm. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art.

See listing for Wednesday, October 26. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org The “Cav Futures Show” Live. Lo Davis and Luke Neer host this live radio show that features interviews with UVA student- athletes, a social media livestream, and in-person photo and autograph opportunities. Free, 7pm. Dairy Market, 946 Grady Ave. cavalierfutures.com

Friday 10/28

music

Andy Frasco & The U.N. With Little Stranger. $22-25, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com

Barling and Collins at Offbeat Road-

house. Two rather reckless bastards who make ornery noise for the sheer jollies of it. Free, 8pm. The Stage at WTJU, 2244 Ivy Rd. wtju.net Family Weekend Concert. Join the University Singers, UVA Chamber Singers, Virginia Glee Club, and Virginia Women’s Chorus for the traditional family weekend choral showcase. $5-10, 8pm. Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds. music.virginia.edu Matty Metcalfe. Live music, wine, and food from the Eastwood food truck. Free, 5pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwoodfarmandwinery.com Ozma. Performing music from its most recent album, Hyperlapse. $20-25, 8pm. Unity of Charlottesville, 2825 Hydraulic Rd. cjs. ticketbud.com

The Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra Presents: An Evening on the American

Frontier. This year’s fundraiser is a celebration of the American soundtrack. $10-90, 7:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net

stage

Sense and Sensibility. See listing for Thursday, October 27. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. drama.virginia.edu

words

Emily Ogden in conversation with Brian

Teare. Ogden discusses her recent book, On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com Narrating Rap, Narrating Law. See listing for Thursday, October 27. Free with registration, time and location vary. sound justicelab.org

outside

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze & Fall Fes-

tival. Get lost in this five-acre corn maze. Free-$12, all day. Blue Ridge Mountain Maze, 165 Old Ridge Rd., Lovingston. blueridgemountainmaze.com Playdates at the Playscape. BYO buddies and snacks and enjoy nature play. $20, 9:30am. Wildrock, 6600 Blackwells Hollow Rd., Crozet. wildrock.org

etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art.

See listing for Wednesday, October 26. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org Magic: The Gathering. A casual evening with multiple formats, including draft, modern, legacy, and pioneer, and prizes for participants. $5, 6pm. The End Games, 374 Hillsdale Dr. theendgames.co

Saturday 10/29

music

Cupcake Debate. Members of Cake Fight perform live. Free, 1pm. Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. eastwood farmandwinery.com Mayo and The House Sauce. Originals and classic rock hits. Free, 10pm. The Whiskey Jar, 227 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. thewhiskeyjarcville.com Tonal Strangers. Music, wine, and friends. Free, 5pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com

Tom Teasley, Stephen Nachmanovitch,

Brad Stoller. Masters of improvisation and pioneers in their field join forces for the first time for an evening of music and dance free play. $10-12, 7:30pm. PVCC’s V. Earl Dickinson Building, 501 College Dr. pvcc.edu

stage

Sense and Sensibility. See listing for Thursday, October 27. $8-14, 8pm. Ruth Caplin Theatre, 109 Culbreth Rd. drama.virginia.edu

words

Christopher G. De Pree: Astronomical

Mindfulness. A unique illustrated guide from De Pree and science writer Sarah Scoles. Free, 4pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com Storytime. Featuring recent storybooks and classics kids know and love. Free, 11am. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com

classes

Train to Teach English to Adults. Support adult learners through one-to-one instruction. Free, 10:30am. JMRL: Northside Library, 705 W. Rio Rd. literacyforall.org

outside

Blue Ridge Mountain Maze & Fall Fes-

tival. See listing for Friday, October 28. Free-$12, all day. Blue Ridge Mountain Maze, 165 Old Ridge Rd., Lovingston. blueridgemountainmaze.com Farmers Market at Ix. Over 60 local vendors with produce, prepared foods, artisan goods, and more. Free, 8am. Ix Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. ixartpark.org Playdates at the Playscape. See listing for Friday, October 28. $20, 9:30am. Wildrock, 6600 Blackwells Hollow Rd., Crozet. wildrock.org

etc.

Daily Tour of Indigenous Australian Art.

See listing for Wednesday, October 26. Free, 10:30am and 1:30pm. Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA, 400 Worrell Dr. kluge-ruhe.org

Sunday 10/30

music

An Evening with the Disco Biscuits.

Bridging the gap between electronic music and jam bands. $45-50, 8pm. The Jefferson Theater, 110 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. jeffersontheater.com An Lar. An afternoon of traditional Irish music. Free, 1pm. The Batesville Market, 6624 Plank Rd. batesvillemarket.com Night Teacher: Desert Psalm. An immersive evening celebrating the premiere of the band’s music video for “Desert Psalm.” $1520, 6pm. Potter’s Craft Cider, 1350 Arrowhead Valley Rd. nightteachermusic.com The Highway Department. Sip on wine and enjoy live music. Free, 2pm. Glass House Winery, 5898 Free Union Rd., Free Union. glasshousewinery.com The Wavelength. Enjoy live music and wine. Free, 1pm. Merrie Mill Farm and Vineyard, 594 Merrie Mill Farm, Keswick. merriemillfarm.com

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