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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

City Gallery Opens Wide For Open Studios

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

Calm And Escape At The Art Show

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

Vintage Photo Detective Is On The Case

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

(VW) Buggin’ Out In The Yard

(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

Artists Warn Us The Clock Is Ticking

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

Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?

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

“These Things Are Like Yeast”: 50 Years On, New College Artists Remain Collective

“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

The Trees Are Alive

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

Place Out Of No Place

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

Freedom Achieved Through Other Means

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

Art Helps Clients Cope

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