New Haven Like Rush Hour On Canvas Frank Bruckmann paints the sky to convey a sense of the clouds roiling overhead; perhaps it’s getting dark, or threatening rain, or both. In the dimness, the lights in Brian Slattery 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Breathing Fire, Falling Rain: “Year Of The Dragon” Makes Waves “Year of the Dragon” — an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery celebrating the year 2024 and running now through Nov. 10 — begins with two artworks of waves. One of those Brian Slattery 30 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven On Being Soft It’s a simple idea with big consequences. The picture of East Rock is the sort you might see on a postcard. The message is easy to digest, a salute Brian Slattery 29 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Punq Noire Opens A New Stage Allie Bee stood in front of an admiring audience in the downstairs space of Westville’s Third Space. Tracks they’d made themself played behind them as they took their Brian Slattery 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Feminism, By Design It’s a poster for a conference held in Los Angeles in 1975, “for women who work with public visual and physical forms,” as the piece advertises — that is, women Brian Slattery 23 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven This Is How To Rock A Monday New Haven-based artist Michael Miglietta has a visual style that leans into the surreal and the cosmic, creating dizzying, shape-shifting images with bold linework and vivid color. Under the moniker Brian Slattery 21 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Stare Into The Sun An entire gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street is bathed in a pinkish-orange glow that streams in through tinted windows, a constant chemical sunset. The Brian Slattery 16 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Bend Time’s Arrow In Sean Patrick Gallagher’s series of paintings, the sea roils red. The image is clear enough, but the title brings home the allusions the artist is leaning toward. “Wine-dark, Brian Slattery 14 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Black Book” Opens Armed Teacher Debate It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more Brian Slattery 7 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Take Time To Breathe Unbothered, a new exhibit in a coworking space in downtown New Haven, features works by Juliana Chavarria, Lauren Clayton, Shaunda Holloway, Kimberly Klauss, Melida McKenzie-Alford, Shanna T. Melton, Aisha Nailah, Brian Slattery 3 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Hip Hop Artists Are No Imitation “Hello several people, rap professionals, and various cool people,” said Sketch Tha Cataclysm from the Three Sheets stage, as he and fellow New Haven hip hop stalwart Mo Niklz hosted Brian Slattery 25 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Create Connection Amid Struggle “Observe,” Omola Studio’s second installment of APRiL (Artists Prospering Really is Limitless), features works by De, Kulimushi Barongozi, Kaelynne Hernandez, Miguel Mendoza, and Rex Morris. The first iteration happened Brian Slattery 22 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Finds Holiness In The Ruins It’s the shape of an ancient Middle Eastern cityscape, verandahs and towers, arched doorways and windows like peeping eyes. But it’s not anywhere near the Middle East; it’ Brian Slattery 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ghost Funk Orchestra, Marco Benevento Achieve Liftoff In front of a packed house that was ready to have fun, two touring acts — the New York City-based Ghost Funk Orchestra and the Woodstock, N.Y.-based Marco Benevento Brian Slattery 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven From Cameroon, With Futuristic Hope A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night featured a stunning set of music from Blick Bassy. Born in Cameroon and now living in France, the 50-year-old Bassy has Brian Slattery 8 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave The jury is still out on whether American culture, or the music industry, can create another superstar, like Michael Jackson or Prince, like Madonna or Bruce Springsteen. Maybe Beyoncé, now Brian Slattery 4 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
