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
Hartford Calm And Escape At The Art Show It’s not often that I get two great experiences at one location, but I was fortunate to find that in addition to offering fascinating talks, the Lucy Robbins Welles Library has a gallery space where they display the creations of local artists. Jamil Ragland 9 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Vintage Photo Detective Is On The Case By day, Erik S. Hinckley is an unassuming assistant town planner for the town of Newington. By night, he’s a detective, working to solve mysteries over a century in the making. Jamil Ragland 8 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia (VW) Buggin’ Out In The Yard Clark Bedford moved his ancient, trash-packed Volkswagen out of his Maryland driveway — and into a contemporary art gallery. Nora Grace-Flood 7 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Artists Warn Us The Clock Is Ticking After the shocking flooding that tore through Western Connecticut just a few weeks ago, it’s more apparent than ever that climate change does not only mean a few warmer days here and disaster over there. Jamil Ragland 2 Oct 2024 · 3 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
Oakland “These Things Are Like Yeast”: 50 Years On, New College Artists Remain Collective Once, when I was a young, bright-eyed MFA student, a professor told the class to “look to the left of you. Look to the right of you. You should know that only one in five of you will still be making art in five years time. As the years go on, it will be even less.” Vita Hewitt 26 Sep 2024 · 4 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
LA Place Out Of No Place On a scalding Saturday afternoon — peak heat wave in Los Angeles, temperatures around 107 outside — a small crowd of art writers gathered around a seersucker-suited Hilton Als inside the main gallery at David Zwirner. Melissa Seley 26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Freedom Achieved Through Other Means The Nutmeg Pulpit is a celebration of the history of Black churches in post-Revolutionary War Connecticut Jamil Ragland 26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Art Helps Clients Cope The pill bottles hang suspended in the air, a testament to their ubiquity and the damage they cause. Behind them are arrayed a series of facts and statistics about drug Brian Slattery 25 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Small Sculptures Steal the Show Ever lost hours in search of a sculpture you saw a decade ago and only vaguely recall, both online and among your own poorly archived history? She’s bronze, just smaller than life-sized, arms behind her back, facing the vista, standing on the side of a hill. She may be getting ready to swim… Sarah Bass 25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Artist Shoots Artwork Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness Brian Slattery 24 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
LA What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy INTUIT DOME ART PREVIEW Intuit Dome Inglewood We made long, slow shadows, watched them bleed into the pallid concrete. For what felt like an hour, we’d be waiting for Eli Diner 23 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Proud to be Scratchy At the opening of the special exhibition “Creative Growth at 50: A Visual History,” a woman with a guide cane asked if I’d seen her reflectors. I didn’t know who she was, and I didn’t know what reflectors she was referring to. She held out her hand… Agustín Maes 19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven The Mykonos Blues Judy Atlas takes an abstract trip, at City Gallery. Brian Slattery 18 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Art On The Rocks Jacqueline Unanue: “The Eternal Return” Muse Gallery 52 N 2nd St. Philadelphia Sept. 13, 2024 As a child in Chile, artist Jacqueline Unanue would look up from her grandmother’s Nora Grace-Flood 16 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa 18 Artists, Seven Countries: One Quilt Hanging In Tulsa TELEPORTAL: “Homeward” TAC Gallery Tulsa Through Sept. 28 Probably the craziest sound bite to come out of the recent presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Cassidy Petrazzi 13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
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