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Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above

Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above

The strange curation of this show lends to the exhibit’s whimsy and playfulness: delightfully eccentric and bizarro.

Agustín Maes

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

DIY Love

DIY Love

A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of.

Nora Grace-Flood

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

Nora Grace-Flood

7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion.

Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Place Show Win

Place Show Win

As we travel through life, place echoes forward through us, making itself known no matter what.

Nora Grace-Flood

30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious.

Clay Davies

28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Through A Glass, Brightly

Through A Glass, Brightly

At Kehler Liddell Gallery's "overtones" and "bold as Love" shows.

Brian Slattery

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

This weekend was the turn of artists at Willow Street's Marlin Works complex to invite the public in for Open Studios.

Karen Ponzio

21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Hey Erector Square: Who You Calling Meat Face?

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

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into

Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways.

Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Idora Idora: Echoes from the Past

Fred's review in comics of Idora Idora. Saturdays, October 12 through November 9, 2024

Fred Noland

20 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.

Nora Grace-Flood

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right

When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land.

Z.B. Reeves

18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

How We Mourn Four-Legged Family

Death is inevitable for all living things. Humans have a wide range of ceremonies across cultures and religions that lay out strict rules for what to do with other humans who are dead. But what about our pets?

Jamil Ragland

18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Prints From The Underground

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

“Open Studios” Steps Into West 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

Artists Get Amplified

Artists Get Amplified

A multicolored fabric sculpture created by Kat Wiese seemed to float between the trees that framed one entrance to the Eli Whitney Barn.

Karen Ponzio

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Island On My Mind

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