Thursday, February 16, 2017
Connecticut is the home of American Impressionism. At the turn of the 20th century, colonies sprouted up in Old Lyme, Cos Cob, Farmington, Kent and other places. Many of the artists who gath…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Real Art Ways in Hartford hosts ts annual screenings of Oscar-nominated short films starting Feb. 10. Unlike the annual Manhattan Short Film Festival, audience members aren't allowed to vote…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:24AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Historian and filmmaker Ken Burns once described the artifact collection of The Mark Twain House & Museum as a "treasure trove of unbelievable holdings on the life, work and history of Mark …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:22AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
February is Black History Month, and two exhibits in the state focus on extraordinary people and one extraordinary event. An exhibit in Hartford showcases some of the leading African America…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:13PMMonday, January 30, 2017
The upcoming publication of "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," the first children's book ever published by Mark Twain, will be "a huge springboard into Twain's novels" for youths, say…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:19PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Just what is the definition of "America"? Is it just the United States? Does it include our North American partners, Mexico and Canada? Does the definition travel as far south as Central Ame…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Hygienic Art, the visual-arts hub in the heart of the New London waterfront, will hold its 38th annual winter art carnival, featuring art, music, fashion, poetry, films and other events, sta…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, January 19, 2017
In the time of Japan's last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed "pleasure quarters," where courtesans practiced prostitution and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
The inauguration of the nation's newest president has already sent artists to their studios to turn their concerns into art. New Haven's Kehler Liddell Gallery has gathered some of that art …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:59AMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Since the November elections, some artists are taking the lead in a national movement they say is designed to protect civil liberties and defend truth in political discourse. An event being …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, January 5, 2017
Thomas Loughman has been at the helm of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford for just shy of a year. Usually, it takes about a year for a new director to start putting his stamp …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMTuesday, December 27, 2016
Just as Yale University Art Gallery's exhibit of artwork about Yosemite is ending its run — the show closes Dec. 31 — another exhibit about the legendary national park is beginning its r…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London is marking the holiday with a unique exhibit, which celebrates not Santa Claus or Christmas trees but instead the glorious variety of the rainbow. "A Col…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Old Sturbridge Village is a celebration of times gone by, a period-perfect re-creation of an 18th- to 19th-century village. But among the village's attractions this holiday season is a conte…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:37AMMonday, November 21, 2016
The new exhibit at Foxwoods Resort Casino of Beatles memorabilia, "The Magical History Tour," begins chronologically before the Beatles existed, when John Lennon was playing in his first ban…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFriday, November 18, 2016
"Nutcracker Suite & Spicy," a modern-day adaptation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet, will give its seventh annual presentation Dec. 9 to 11 in Hartford. But it never would have made it pas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Connecticut author Wally Lamb has made the ghosts of New London's glorious Garde Arts Center the central characters in his new novel, "I'll Take You There" (Harper, $25.99). After the film p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
When Chris Steininger was a boy, the best day of the school year was Take Your Parent to School Day. Other kids' dads were doctors, lawyers, whatever. Steininger's dad was the coolest of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:51AMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Open Studio Hartford, the annual art-and-artists extravaganza, at which 350 local creative talents will show and sell their creations, is Nov. 12 and 13 in 24 locations around the city. Arti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2016
On any given morning, Brett Maddux is eating breakfast at a diner somewhere in Connecticut. Maddux doesn't go out for breakfast just to eat, but also to soak in the atmosphere at each place,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:58PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
There's something rotten going on at Alfred Pierce Prep School. Pierce is the New England setting for a new five-episode original series on CPTV, "The Cobblestone Corridor," which premieres …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
Hartford's second annual Fashion Week — this year Oct. 13 to 16 — will showcase the work of eight Hartford-area designers, as well as designers based in Providence, Boston and New York. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PMMonday, October 3, 2016
The sun will come out at night in Elizabeth Park this weekend. Anne Cubberly's glowing 16-feet-tall Solstice Puppet, a beatific sunburst with a Mona Lisa smile, is the shining star and avata…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Yale Poetry Prof. Claudia Rankine and artist-writer Lauren Redniss, who grew up in Stamford, are among this year's recipients of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships. An…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:21AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
In 1979, someone in Indiana tried to have Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" banned, saying the book "openly rejects traditional marriage and motherhood." In 1998, a Californian tried to ban J.K.…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, September 19, 2016
The new photography exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, of photographs collected by its former curator Sam Wagstaff, is called "The Thrill of the Chase." "It was a thril…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Bloomfield artist Stanwyck Cromwell is known throughout the Hartford area for his jewel-bright oils-on-canvas with references to the folklore and traditions of his native Guyana. But when co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Imagine a world without "Macbeth," "The Taming of the Shrew," "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night." Imagine a world without "All the world's a stage," "Beware the ides of March," "We are such s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:01PMTuesday, August 23, 2016
Ricou Browning became legendary almost by accident. In 1953, He was working at Wakulla Springs near Tallahassee, Fla., lifeguarding and doing other chores. His boss, who was going out of tow…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:41AMSunday, August 21, 2016
HARTFORD — The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in a move to open its arms to the city and become a place for its diverse communities to interact, is instituting free admission to Hartfor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:27AMThursday, August 18, 2016
The home-office in New Haven where Crystal Emery lives and works is full of inspirational messages. Her front door bears the sign "'I Can't' Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Above her desk reads …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:54PM 
