Art
A Trailblazing Lesbian Artist Gets Her Due
Harmony Hammond’s work can appear bewildering at first, expansive in its diametrical explorations, and sprawling in its material juxtapositions.
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Announcement
The Yale Center for British Art Presents the First North American Survey of Work by Eileen Hogan
Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies examines her artistic process and feature sketchbooks alongside finished paintings. On view at the Yale Center for British Art from May 9 to August 11.
Announcement
Visit the Yale School of Art's 2019 MFA Open Studios, April 6 - 7
Studios are open to the public and located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven.
News
A 40-Year Initiative Brings the Art of Maximum-Security Prisoners to the Museum
"Those capable of the worst are capable of the best," says curator Jeffrey Greene. "Anyone can be an artist."
Announcement
UConn’s First Three-Year MFA Art Class Graduated in May, and Here’s What They are Doing Now
UConn’s MFA Studio Art Program is no longer the “best kept secret” in the country.
Art
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.
Art
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
Art
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.
Art
Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show
Long before Desperate Housewives, Honey Boo Boo, or any of those viral BuzzFeed lists, there was the American side show.
Art
Poster Boy Is Subject of Panel this Saturday
This Saturday, January 28, the multidisciplinary arts organization Real Art Ways will present a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding collage street artist Poster Boy, aka Henry Matyjewicz.
News
Are Artists the Next Best Business Venture? Connecticut Is Banking on It
A new arts funding plan is brewing in Connecticut that places precedence on cultural and arts programs that contribute to the community and attract new businesses.
Art
Felice Varini Is Messing With Your Head
Felice Varini uses nothing but a bit of color, applied to a wall, to shake you from of your routine and, so he hopes, brighten one of memory’s grey spots a little in a moment of world-flattening surreality. In doing so, Varini is not unlike other artists that have sought to place the viewer within t