Thursday, 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 01:06PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Sophie Tucker didn't have a wild streak. Tucker was a wild streak. The chubby, plain, sexy Last of the Red Hot Mamas was a fearlessly brazen jazz singer, as well as the most famous person ev…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Eighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree mad…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:07PMEighty-four years ago, on March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover made "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States. Hoover's signature on the congressional decree mad…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:07PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Charlie and Irene Hamm of Mystic are in their late 70s now, and they don't go boating anymore. They've given their boats away. But in past years, they sailed a lot and saw many aspects of li…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:29PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Selfie sticks are the talk of the museum world. Those extender poles used to widen the panoramic range of a selfie have become popular with the general public and museum visitors, who want t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:07AMSelfie sticks are the talk of the museum world. Those extender poles used to widen the panoramic range of a selfie have become popular with the general public and museum visitors, who want t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:07AMThursday, February 19, 2015
A new art event at Wesleyan University in Middletown consists of a series of still photographs of Professor Eiko Otake dancing, freeform, elegantly, draped in a variety of handsome fabrics. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:36PMA new art event at Wesleyan University in Middletown consists of a series of still photographs of Professor Eiko Otake dancing, freeform, elegantly, draped in a variety of handsome fabrics. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:36PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Sidney Poitier became a major movie star in the 1950s. But by 1967 — when he starred in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "In the Heat of the Night" and "To Sir With Love" and was the countr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:24AMSidney Poitier became a major movie star in the 1950s. But by 1967 - when he starred in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "In the Heat of the Night" and "To Sir With Love" and was the country'…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:24AMMonday, February 9, 2015
In the 20th century, many African American artists — songwriters, authors, singers — made names for themselves in the increasingly welcoming world of American popular culture. However, f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:59AMIn the 20th century, many African American artists - songwriters, authors, singers - made names for themselves in the increasingly welcoming world of American popular culture. However, for m…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:59AMFriday, February 6, 2015
Years ago, when Louisa Barton-Duguay lived in Moncton, New Brunswick, she was a social justice activist, including helping plan a summit for the International Day for the Eradication of Pove…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
When Walt Whitman lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1836 to 1850, he frequently visited the beach at Coney Island, which he described as "a long, bare, unfrequented shore, which I had all to mys…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:06PMSunday, January 18, 2015
One of the first things visitors will see when entering the newly renovated Susan Morse Hilles Gallery at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Jan. 31 is a lighted sign reading "Like, Man, I'…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:13PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
In July, when The Courant last checked in with Nick Fradiani, he was competing on the TV reality show "America's Got Talent" with his band, Beach Avenue. The band got eliminated early on in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:08PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
Coney Island amusement park had a sideshow. And the Wadsworth Atheneum’s upcoming Coney Island exhibit has a side show, too.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMMonday, December 22, 2014
The exhibit 'Buon Natale: Creches Of Italy' the Knights Of Columbus Museum In New Haven has dozens of nativities in different styles, but focuses strongly on Neapolitan-style creches, which …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:44AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Susan Lubowsky Talbott, who has been director and chief executive officer of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art since 2008, will announce her retirement on Friday, Talbott told The Courant.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:36PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Both David Reed-Brown and Robin Lynch knew what they wanted to do with their lives when they were very young. Lynch was found dangling from her crib as a baby, the beginning of a lifelong lo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:21PMThursday, December 11, 2014
The Hartford Courant has been around for 250 years, publishing its first issue in 1764. For exactly half of that time, 125 years, it was published without photographs. That changed in 1889, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:04PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Mansfield Art Center, on a sparsely populated stretch of Route 32 in Mansfield, looks ordinary from the outside, a green and yellow building set back from the road behind a colorful sign, ac…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:03AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
Peter Mikulak once was a full-time general contractor in New Haven. Now he's a full-time artist living in his hometown of Bristol. The path that brought Mikulak where he is now hasn't been e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:47AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Sophie Tucker, the legendary bad-girl jazz singer who was raised in Hartford, wrote a memoir in 1935, when she was in her late 40s. For the next 10 years, she went back and forth between pub…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
People who participate in Open Studio Hartford on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, can spend all weekend all over Hartford looking at thousands of works of art by creative talents who li…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:30AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Over the course of his life, Kevin Iega Jeff has looked at old portraits from the turn of the 20th century and wondered about the people in them. Who were they? What kind of lives did they h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:12AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Sam Schrager has lived at Bushnell Plaza in downtown Hartford for 10 years, and he likes living there, but something always nagged at him: the vast emptiness of the courtyard in front of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:35AMSunday, November 2, 2014
Douglas Hyland was a senior in 1970, majoring in history at University of Pennsylvania, when he first heard of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:28AMThursday, October 30, 2014
From Nov. 1 to Dec. 7, there will be new artists-in-residence at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Visitors who like what they see can't take the art home with them, but they can take the artists h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:41AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Every year, Florence Griswold Museum's Wee Faerie Villlage outdoor fantasy art installation has a literary theme, and this year, organizer David D.J. Rau thought "Alice in Wonderland" would …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PM 
