Friday, September 18, 2015
On Saturday, Sept. 26. consumer advocate-politician Ralph Nader is celebrating the opening of a museum he founded in his hometown of Winsted. The American Museum of Tort Law will focus on th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55PMThursday, September 17, 2015
Graffiti culture is alive and well in the cities of Connecticut, but it's harder to find in the suburbs. Stafford is an exception. On Saturday, Sept. 19, about 50 graffiti artists will get t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:31AMSunday, September 13, 2015
Starting this week, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will be something it hasn't been in recent memory: overwhelming.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
There are only 16 artworks in the new exhibit at the Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford. Still, visitors might find themselves spending more time than they expect inside the gall…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:27PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Rob Gentile's reaction to the new artwork on the front of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is appropriate: "Oh, my God."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:58PMFriday, August 28, 2015
New Britain Museum of American Art on Friday named a director to succeed Douglas Hyland. Min Jung Kim, who will join the museum on Nov. 2, is currently deputy director for external relations…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Real Art Ways sent out Wednesday a strongly worded call for funding, pointing out shortfalls in its expected contributions and stating that "longevity is not a guarantee," implying that the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:55PMThursday, August 20, 2015
In preparation for the unveiling of its big new wing this fall, the New Britain Museum of American Art has reinstalled all of its second-floor galleries. There are now dedicated spaces for s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Every August, the Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery in Stamford presents a "Thank You CT" exhibit to showcase work by Connecticut artists. This year, gallerist Alvarez has decided to step back f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMThursday, August 6, 2015
Every artist wants a one-person show, even a small one, like the one in the second-floor corridor at Green Street Teaching and Learning Center in Middletown of nature photography by 15-year-…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:55PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
In the old days, the predominant attitude in a classroom was that the teacher knew everything and the students should keep quiet and learn what they were told. But times have changed.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:18AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Peter Blume was a modernist, which in his case meant all kinds of things. Blume did surrealism, magical realism, precisionism. But at the new Peter Blume exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:58AMMonday, July 13, 2015
In his 90 years, Dennis Gentle has had many vocations. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He worked as an advertising salesman, a movie extra, a film and television art di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:58PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Outside the Hygienic Galleries in New London is a water feature dominated by a brass sculpture of the Greek goddess Gaia, who is depicted celebrating the Earth. Inside the gallery, Gaia reig…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:25PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - New England's No. 1 can't-miss museum road trip this summer is at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. Until Sept. 13, two blockbuster attractions will be on …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:27PMMonday, June 29, 2015
At any given museum, the artists at the museum aren't just the ones whose work is on the walls. Many artists work behind the scenes, in the museum office as preparators, education directors,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:38AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Mark Bradford said he doesn't have any "grand narratives" about himself. "What I make doesn't have to go on for 1,000 years after I die," Bradford said. "Something will go on for 1,000 years…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:47AMThursday, June 4, 2015
For years, Manchester's Art in the Park was the first Sunday of June, and operated along the same lines: Artist, crafters and antique dealers who wanted to participate would register in adva…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:30AMMonday, June 1, 2015
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice is awarded biennially to an author whose work "makes an impact on a critical social issue in the tradition of Stowe's 'U…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:49AMThursday, May 21, 2015
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, he set in motion the adoption of a new constitution, with an emphasis on equality of rights and opportunities. This opennes…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:43AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
In 1921, Greenwood, Okla., was a successful, predominantly black community in Tulsa, with 600 businesses and about 10,000 residents, living and thriving together alongside a few other minori…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
A festival will be held Saturday, May 9, at Harbor Park in Middletown with music, crafts, art, food and other family-friendly attractions. A map of the festival grounds shows 19 different ev…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMThursday, April 30, 2015
The "light bulb" moment that turned Elizabeth Gage into an artist happened a lifetime ago at the British Museum.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:39PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Amy Merli founded Trashion Fashion in 2010. This weekend will mark the fifth celebration of couture made from garbage. She likes everything about the annual event, but is particularly fond o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:40PMConnecticut Ballet is presenting its new version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" April 18 and 19 in Stamford and April 26 in Hartford. For the first time the ballet is offering free admission…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:48PMConnecticut Ballet is presenting its new version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on April 26 in Hartford. For the first time the ballet is offering free admission to the Sunday matinees to …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:48PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Mariette Monpierre grew up in Paris not knowing her father. When she was an adult she went to her native country, Guadeloupe, to try to find him. "I really yearned to see his eyes, feel his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:11AMMariette Monpierre grew up in Paris not knowing her father. When she was an adult she went to her native country, Guadeloupe, to try to find him. "I really yearned to see his eyes, feel his …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:11AMSince 2009, the Sea Tea Improv comedy troupe has entertained Hartford audiences with shows at City Steam Brewery, HartBeat Ensemble's Carriage House Theater, Billings Forge, Real Art Ways an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:54AMThursday, March 12, 2015
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquire…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:06PM 
