New Haven Free 2 Spit Marks 20 Years At The Mic On Friday, Free 2 Spit celebrated the completion of its 20th year holding down an open mic for New Haven’s spoken-word scene at the New Haven Peoples Center on Brian Slattery 11 Dec 2024 · 6 min read
New Haven Something's Not Quite Right Yale Peabody Museum neuroscience-art exhibit plays with perception. Brian Slattery 3 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
New Haven With Final Solo Album, Ceschi Completes The Cycle After 16 years of albums, tours, collaborations and compilations, indie hip hop and folk pioneer is done. Brian Slattery 2 Dec 2024 · 7 min read
New Haven Symphony Lights A Creative Fire A symphony orchestra in a vast concert hall. Ballet dancers, barefoot. A spoken-word poet and a singer. A traditional African drummer. These elements all came together in concert, as a Brian Slattery 25 Nov 2024 · 6 min read
From One Man, Multitudes American Renaissance art gets its due, at Yale University Art Gallery Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Through A Glass, Brightly At Kehler Liddell Gallery's "overtones" and "bold as Love" shows. Brian Slattery 22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face? Amelia Ingraham's "MeatFace" captures the vibe of the artwork being put together in studios where workers once produced America's erector sets. Brian Slattery 21 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
New Haven “Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do. Brian Slattery 18 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Prints From The Underground It’s a transfixing stare, made more intense by the medium. A woodcut hearkens back to an earlier time — and, in German Expressionism, an earlier mode of expressing anxiety. Brian Slattery 16 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Open Studios” Steps Into West Haven Inside Susan Clinard’s Gilbert Street studio on Sunday afternoon, the West Haven space was full of New Haven faces. Brian Slattery 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Musical Acts Buzz The Stacks Dan Greene, sometimes of the Mountain Movers, cast a dislocating spell on a rapt audience at the Institute Library Saturday night, with a tremolo guitar and his echo-drenched voice. Brian Slattery 14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Island On My Mind The diptych, by Robert De Matteo, offers two shapes that strongly echo each other, but are from quite different models. Brian Slattery 11 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven City Gallery Opens Wide For Open Studios Rita Hannafin’s Float hangs in the midst of City Gallery’s latest show on Upper State Street, a quilt of bright, shifting colors, surprising shapes, dynamic contrasts, and ultimately, cohesion. Brian Slattery 10 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three New Albums Put The Heart On The Line “Good Morning Heartache,” the opening track on Christian Sands’s latest album, Embracing Dawn, begins with a warm, gently unfolding gesture from the piano, an easing into consciousness. Brian Slattery 9 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves? Do you have a mind’s eye, the ability to not just remember, but visualize the past? Do you have an interior monologue? Rich childhood memories, full of sights, sounds, and smells? Brian Slattery 1 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Cornet-Piano Duo Frees Up The Space Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there Brian Slattery 30 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper... Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Trees Are Alive In the short film Dendrostalkers, the view is from the driver’s seat of a car curving along a dirt road through a forest at night. Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
