Oakland In Search Of The Sage Serpent “Sage Serpent“ Maybelle Avenue & MacArthur Boulevard Laurel District, Oakland www.last1s.com www.fistofflour.com No names, no faces. That’s what I promised one of the co-founders of Agustín Maes 20 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artist Rolls With The Temporary After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents. “I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but “sometimes I almost like Brian Slattery 19 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Hopper With A Camera: Paul Vlachos Captures The Loneliness Of The Metropolis PRIVATE/NYC: Photos by Paul Vlachos, New York City, 1998 ‑2023 Art Cake 214 40th St. Brooklyn, NY Through Dec. 23, 2023 Paul Vlachos’ haunting photos of vacant spaces of Betsy Kim 18 Dec 2023 · 5 min read
Hartford You Made Me Look. My Bad Matrix 193 Work by Talia Chetrit Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Through Jan. 7, 2024 When I entered the gallery to view Talia Chetrit’s first museum exhibit in the United States, Jamil Ragland 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Nativity Scene: Elves Torn To Shreds Somerville Illuminations Somerville, Mass. Through early January 2024 How many different ways can you decorate your yard for the holidays? You might opt for the classy, minimal look with classic Sasha Patkin 18 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artist Questions The Questions The show of artist Amira Brown’s work, up now at the Mitchell Branch Library in Westville through the end of the month, doesn’t have a title, nor do Brian Slattery 18 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
NYC Lawdy Mama: Adam & Betsy Dish On 1st Black Artist Solo Show At The Frick By Adam Wassilchalk and Betsy Kim Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits The Frick Madison 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street New York City Through Jan. 7, 2024 Taking advantage of free Stacey Peters 15 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
Reno Life On The Farm, For Real Birthed from the soil Iyana Esters Front Door Gallery at UNR Reno Through Jan. 1, 2024 You have to get close to some of Iyana Esters’ photographs to make out Jose Davila IV 12 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Some Painted,Some Panted Music and visual art both went live Wednesday night at Cafe Nine when Color in Sound, an event organized and curated by local artist Andres Madariaga, brought together three musical Karen Ponzio 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa A Slower Kind Of Knowing Darren Dirksen: November Grass Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa Through Dec. 9 In the introduction to her “Best Music of 2023” list, the New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich wrote Alicia Chesser 6 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
LA From Guyana with Love CARIBBEAN TELEVISION Commonwealth and Council Los Angeles Through Dec. 23, 2023 Adam revealed his life to me in slivers over the course of our brief romance: his Muslim faith, the Brandon Sward 6 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “The Truth Is Out There” Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the Brian Slattery 5 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
Hartford The Art Of The Xmas Tree Festival of Trees and Traditions Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Through Dec. 10. Decorating the Christmas tree is one of those holiday traditions that unite families and build lasting memories. The Wadsworth Jamil Ragland 1 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Where The Wild Art Is The Ramble Central Park 59th St. to 110th St., and Fifth Avenue to Central Park West New York City Open from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., 365 days Betsy Kim 30 Nov 2023 · 5 min read
Hartford Stained-Glass Revelation: Heaven is Other People Stained Glass Windows Jubilee House Hartford Nov. 29 When I was kid, I once locked myself in the closet and prayed. I decided that I would stay there, in total Jamil Ragland 30 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Basquiat’s Final Studio Travels From Coast To Coast JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: King Pleasure The Grant Los Angeles Through Jan. 1, 2024 The opening walkway of the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibit at the Grand LA is printed with the David Diaz 28 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
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
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