New Haven Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Makes The Mythology Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Brick Art Builds Up Lego Legend Art Of The Brick The Franklin Institute 222 N 20th St. Philadelphia Aug. 12, 2024 I’m not sure quite what I expected as we walked into the Franklin Institute’ Emily Cohen 16 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Photographers Make Life Into Art John T. Deneka’s Lifeguards tells an entire story by itself. The photo is one of 88 photographs selected to appear in “IMAGES 2024,” an exhibition running now at Kehler Eleanor Polak 16 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Artwork Offers Different Take on Drag Free to Be Theaterworks Hartford August 13, 2024 The celebration of drag culture continues at Theaterworks with the opening of the exhibit Free to Be in the gallery space on Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Get Constructive Ariel Bintang’s pieces can be understood as abstractions of figurative landscapes. The color choices, of vivid greens, blues, and oranges, don’t happen much in the real world, and Brian Slattery 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Everything Is Political In America,” Including The Art Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph Eleanor Polak 9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Trace Evidence: The Work & Friendship Of Hayley Nichols & Nic Annette Miller Hayley Nichols and Nic Annette Miller: Natural Rhythms 108 Contemporary Tulsa Through Sept. 21 I was lucky enough to get out of Oklahoma’s sweltering heat recently, as my family Cassidy Petrazzi 9 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa This Art Deserves Better Jordan Vinyard: Command + C, Command + C, Command + CTAC Gallery Tulsa Aug. 2 – 24, 2024 Kinetic sculpture — sculpture that moves — is a tough beast to tame. It tends to move slowly, Z.B. Reeves 9 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Ashley The Creator’s Art Bears Fruit According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering Eleanor Polak 6 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Matisse Makes Way For Pink Handcuffs Visions The Barnes Foundation 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy Philadelphia Aug. 1, 2024 Meandering through a maze of Matisse — meaning through a wave of 20th century women generously sprawled across colorful Nora Grace-Flood 2 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa Living Memory “Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art. Alicia Chesser 2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
New Haven The Holocaust, In The First Person How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not Eleanor Polak 1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland X‑FOLX ASSEMBLE! Superheroes Reframed X‑FOLX Hella Positive 1606 7th St. Oakland July 27th, 2024 Fred Noland 1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Finally, Crying for Megan I only found you when I stopped looking Real Art Ways Hartford July 31, 2024 I’m sure that there’s more to Denisse Griselda Reyes’ exhibit, I only found Jamil Ragland 1 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Star Secrets Revealed, As Chinese Lanterns Light Up Franklin Square Chinese Lantern Festival Franklin Square 700 Arch St. Philadelphia July 30, 2024 A live rat ran past my shoe while I was lacing up to walk through Philly’s Chinese Nora Grace-Flood 31 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Shaunda Holloway Shows Up For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have Eleanor Polak 30 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
