New Haven Walls Decked With Photographic Reflections Penrhyn Cook’s series of photographs, Holiday Reflections, are absorbing enough in their own right. Colorful and festive, the images are just askew enough to warrant a closer look. Are Brian Slattery 28 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 4 Bands Converge On 9 Brooklyn’s Silver Liz and Connecticut’s Private Liz, Audio Jane, and Cabins! East poured into a packed Cafe 9 Saturday night — and poured on the energy. Brian Slattery 20 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Put “Everything & Nothing” On View Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for Brian Slattery 17 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Shubert Opens Broadway Season With Hope A bus driver has brought a busload full of stranded airline passengers to a camp in Newfoundland, in the middle of the night. The passengers don’t really know why Brian Slattery 10 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven It’s Gotta Be The Shoes The two men in Cal Bocicault’s painting are, first and foremost, stylish, and they know it. Peering askance at the viewer, colors coordinated with themselves and each other, together Brian Slattery 8 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Something’s Off. Something’s Wrong Collective Consciousness Theatre raises searing questions about race, class, gender, plot, and character in a new production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning Fairview. Brian Slattery 3 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Twist & Hedge A keen sense of play — married to rigorous formal accomplishment — marks both Marjorie Gillette Wolfe’s show, “Hedge,” and sculptor and potter Amanda Duchen’s show, “Clay,” running concurrently at Brian Slattery 2 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven In“After Picasso,” Artists Reckon With A Giant Cynthia Beth Rubin’s collage crackles with energy, as colors vibrate off one another and forms within forms, textures within textures, rub against each other. Keen senses of both aesthetic Brian Slattery 27 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 3 Bands From 3 Zones Mellow Out Habe (NYC), Emmet Kai (upstate NYS) and Miguel (Loor) take turns helping Cafe Nine crowd drift on a Wednesday night. Brian Slattery 26 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Take Over The Reins Of Open Studios Artist Chelsea M. Rowe marries festive colors to a violent act in her art, a contrast that opens up the possibilities for interpretation. There’s no getting away from the Brian Slattery 23 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Art Galley Show Uncovers Individuals Amid Crush Of Slavery Prentice looks like a no-nonsense woman. The depiction of her is simple, but it appears to capture some of her essential nature. Prentice looks smart, curious, and strong. But she Brian Slattery 20 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Solo Artists Band Together Among the digital video detritus of Kit Young’s installation at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is a cracked screen with a sign rarely seen in a gallery: “Please Brian Slattery 19 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
New Haven Artists Connect Soul To Soul In ways that photographs can’t capture, the installation of “Impossible Souls” — running now through Oct. 29 on the second floor of the Hilles Gallery of Creative Arts Workshop at Brian Slattery 10 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Build Worlds In Group Show The look of Jihyun Lee’s Doll Shelf partakes at once of the past and an imagined future. The collection of objects has the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, Brian Slattery 4 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven “Neverending Poetry” Moves From Open Mic To The Page On the last page of the new poetry anthology Never Ending Poetry — a celebration of the first year of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry reading series that happens almost every Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Births A New Sky Field Notes from the Empathic Universe Work by artist Saya Woolfalk, organized by Kalia Brooks NXTHVN, 169 Henry St., New Haven Through Nov. 19. The central figure in Birthing a Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Frame + Frame + Frame + Frame In group show, sequential artists tell a story. Two narratives are laid out on the wall. They follow at first familiar forms, a plucky young person setting out on a Brian Slattery 22 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
