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The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving
Jeremy Frey’s first museum show presents the artist’s virtuosic craft as must-see contemporary work.
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“World’s Largest Bronze Gorilla” Lands in Connecticut
Children have been joyously climbing the 5,000-pound sculpture, which has been reclining on the grounds of Greenwich’s Bruce Museum since Earth Day.
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How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style
The Bruce Museum will shine a light on the friendships, influences, and experiments that helped shape the artist’s visual language.
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Lois Dodd's Life in Nature
From the mid-1960s, when Dodd first took her Masonite panels outdoors to paint, her production has been shaped by observation.
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11-Million-Year-Old Fossil Leads to Discovery of New Bird Species
The fossil sat in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, unidentified, for nearly 100 years.
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Patrick Nagatani: Chain Reaction Opens at the Bruce Museum
The Japanese-American photographer's entire Nuclear Enchantment series is on view at the Connecticut museum through October 10.
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How Artists Interpreted the Transformation of Paris into a City of Light
GREENWICH, Conn. — Everything was illuminated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, from 5,000 electric lamps igniting the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Waterfall, a cascading fountain animated by colored lights.
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The Lights of Paris, Seen Through the Eyes of the Impressionists and Their Contemporaries
Bruce Museum's 'Electric Paris' features approximately fifty paintings, photographs, and drawings that explore the influence of artificial lighting on the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Expect a mix of European and American masters: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Hen
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Seven Museums Each Tackle a Deadly Sin
The Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance (FWMA), a recently formed consortium of museums located just north of New York City, chose to inaugurate its new partnership with simultaneous exhibitions designed to address a widely known if archaic catalogue of human foibles known as the Seven Deadly Sins
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What the World Never Looked Like
During the late Renaissance, many gold-thirsty European explorers set sail on a quest to locate the fastest route to the Orient.