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Brian Slattery |
Oct 7, 2020 9:07 am
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Amira Brown
I’m Lost, Red Directions.
The style of the painting could be celebratory or frantic. Some of the exclamations painted onto the canvas — “dangit,” “crap,” “oh poop!” — could be seen as jokes. But there is something truly piteous about the posture of the figure in the middle. “I’m lost,” the words above her read, and suddenly we’re in the mind of a child who has lost her way, buffeted by the world. That disorienting, somewhat scary sense we all had as children has its echoes in the current state of the world, as the news doesn’t look good and we don’t know what’s coming next.
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Allison Hadley |
Oct 6, 2020 10:11 am
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Kate Gonzales sat tranquilly in her lyra, a large acrobatic hoop elevated several feet above the ground, gesturing elegantly to the pavement below. Decked out in a rich royal purple unitard that matched the material wrapping the lyra, she contorted and posed around the hoop, demonstrating mighty core strength and flexibility as she bent around to strike another pose. The tones of Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3 in A‑flat major conjured a dance of courtly love. After a particularly elegant pose, fellow performers shouted, “Yeah Kate!” and the tiniest hint of a smile broke through her composed concentration of performance.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 5, 2020 9:21 am
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Harvest after dark.
The sound of jazz filtering up to Chapel Street from Harvest Wine Bar is not new to a Thursday night in New Haven, but on this particular Thursday, Oct. 1, it felt like the first time and happened to be the first of many things for a few in a long while.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 4, 2020 8:17 pm
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A second Black Lives Matter street mural drew in yet another large crowd of New Haveners from all over to help bring the message to life, this time on Temple Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 2, 2020 10:55 am
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Lori Petchers
Garden Party 8.
The arms reach up from the foliage in a surreal way that seems both playful and unsettling. The disembodied nipples they may be throwing around seem almost like eyes, ready to blink. As the title of the piece — Garden Party 8 — by artist Lori Petchers suggests, it’s supposed to be fun. But it goes deeper than that, too. Most of all, it feels like a new discovery, which is what City Wide Open Studios is all about.
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Allison Hadley |
Oct 1, 2020 10:09 am
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You’ve probably seen the posters for The Crowd around town. Black and white, and affixed to everything, from the usual light poles to more avant-garde trash receptacles, they shout at passersby to “vote early, vote often” and portray such illustrious figures as socialist and trade unionist Eugene Debs.
The posters are part agitprop and part advertisement. But there is no contact information. The poster points the way, but to find the Crowd requires more digging.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 30, 2020 9:34 am
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Y&R New York
Feminist Letters Typeface.
The message is clear enough. It’s the letters themselves that bear a closer look, because it turns out the T is built around the shape of a uterus, the P around a raised fist, the S around a dollar bill, the E around a ballot. The letters appear to comment on what they’re spelling; the message is to smash the patriarchy, but it’s the letters that suggest what’s needed to make it happen.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 29, 2020 9:06 am
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Artist Z Bell sang the song of Azhar Ahmed and turned the experience of Patrick Morrison into poetry. “The American Dream don’t shine at night,” Bell said. “The American Dream doesn’t teach you what’s right.” Ayse Coskun, on a park bench, talked about what it is to miss home even as you create new ones. Ismael Al Hraaki talked about the help he got in arriving from Syria via Jordan. “I want to show all these people it wasn’t a waste of time taking care of me,” he said. He wants to become a docfor and help take care of people right back.
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Courtney Luciana |
Sep 28, 2020 3:24 pm
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Colorful fish, tadpoles, and other marine life took over the intersection of Quinnipiac Avenue and Hemingway Street Saturday, thanks to 30 volunteers who painted an environmental awareness project that also aimed to calm traffic.
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
After seven years of planning, New Haven Saturday unveiled a 700-pound bronze monument to one of the seminal and no-longer forgotten figures of the city’s Black history, William Lanson.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 25, 2020 9:20 am
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The bear’s mouth was agape, wide enough to snap up two people. Its head, neck, and shoulders were made of scrap. But its eye was tenderly rendered, imbuing the bear with surprising emotion. It didn’t seem like it was hunting; maybe it was even crying. The emotion was all the more powerful for the bear’s location, in a building amid the former Cedar Hill Rail Yard straddling the New Haven and North Haven lines, and just off the Tidal Marsh Trail, which began in North Haven.
The bear was the work of New Haven-based artist M.J. DeAngelo. Finding it took three tries, in a journey that felt like a trip into both the past and the future.
Dot by dot — by tens of thousands of dots — a public portrait of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is coming into focus at the corner of Howe and Elm, at the hand of a warehouse worker looking to take the art world by storm.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 24, 2020 8:56 am
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Pizza, A Love Story — the movie that director Gorman Bechard calls “the quintessential New Haven film” — returns to the city for another party in the Sally’s parking lot, this one to celebrate its release on DVD and streaming services on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
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Emily Hays |
Sep 23, 2020 10:57 am
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Havenly Treats Head Chef Nieda Abbas packs up boxes of grape leaves.
The staff wrapped the grape leaves carefully, filled them with just the right amount of tomato sauce and rice. The finished product — an Iraqi appetizer — was then available for purchase for $4.99.
It also served as a way for refugees to train for gainful employment.
