James Monroe owned Monroe Hill from 1789 to 1799 — the exact decade of the French Revolution, with most of it spent in Paris during the Reign of Terror. A note on the film, the Jefferson Trust, the absent landlord whose hill became the cradle of the University of Virginia, a rumor of Monroe's face in David's Coronation of Napoleon, and the unmarked grave of his daughter Eliza at Père Lachaise — a few rows from Jim Morrison.

Documenting Charlottesville: A Reflection on Community, History, and the Arts.

he dialogue with Crozier provides a unique opportunity—one artist presenting another.

Edward Thomas was a Renaissance man, and inventor of sorts; he was a tremendous artist with a smile that trascended boundaries and words.

When I moved to Charlottesville in 2010, my only contact was Jared Loewenstein, funder and curator of The Jorge Luis Borges Collection...