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Nov 29, 2017 8:40 am
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Detail of one of Balan’s panels.
A man in a gas mask thrusts a bayonet in your face. There’s an explosion behind him, and a soldier caught up in it. Behind him, as if through a veil, are what seem like memories, of a row of women, of a train steaming by the Eiffel Tower, of a zeppelin shot down over a city by a machine gun. Action and memory blur together.
It’s a comic book. It’s a document. It’s a bit of both. And it’s at the New Haven Museum as part of its most recent exhibit, “The Courier: Tales from the Great War,” on view now through autumn 2018.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 15, 2017 8:36 am
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Mauricio de Sousa, a Brazilian cartoonist, teaches the basics of anti-trust law in “Lemonade Cartel.”
Quick: How do you illustrate the essential nature of the complex legal subject of involuntary manslaughter?
Answer: She slips on a banana, tumbles toward the poor fellow ahead of her on the sidewalk with a force that pushes him forward into the sharp edge of a cane, which is being perhaps recklessly held parallel to the sidewalk and under the arm of the fellow in front of him. The cane pushes the poor victim’s eyeball right out like a billiard ball.
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Brian Slattery & Lucy Gellman |
Oct 30, 2017 7:54 am
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“Bust Op” on the Green, defying government orders.
A downtown bus stop became a “Bust-Op” for a day and sparked conversations about breast cancer awareness — despite a city government effort to shut it down.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 23, 2017 12:37 pm
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A spiral installed outside the Eli Whitney Barn on Whitney Avenue invited visitors who had come for City Wide Open Studios to linger, and linger — and make connections between art, science, and the natural world that they might not soon forget.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 16, 2017 12:20 pm
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The bystander stood admiring one of the creations of artist Marcus Schaeffer, aka Markus Surrealius — an insect-like creature the height of a small child with bulging eyes and a long proboscis.
“Is it a bee?”
“The body is a cow skull,” Schaeffer said. “This one’s called LB17. It’s its own thing.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 11, 2017 7:42 am
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“Good morning America, how are you?” sang Expression Mondays East cohost Bobcat Carruthers, playing “City of New Orleans” — the Steeve Goodman song that Arlo Guthrie made famous — with guitarist Sal Fusco and Terence Clarke on harmonica.
Others in the audience answered with their own instruments, and another night of sharing and expression began.
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Lucy Gellman |
Oct 10, 2017 12:09 pm
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Antle-O’Donnell.
Liz Antle‑O’Donnell won’t have to learn a roster of new names in her new position at Kehler Liddell Gallery. But she hopes to have new names coming through the door before the end of the year.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 9, 2017 12:31 pm
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Sarah J. Bratchell’s and Kate Stephen’s gallery on Saturday.
There was plenty of finished art to see in West River Arts on Whalley Avenue as artists threw open the doors of their studios for City Wide Open Studios’s Westville weekend. For some artists the weekend was as much about making the art as showing it.
The artist beside her “Jutice Has No Mercy” series of digital photos.
At the art school in upstate New York that 2016 Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) grad Ruby Gonzales Hernandez attended after leaving New Haven, some of her fellow minority students encountered death threats and other harassments — some written on the white boards of their dormitory rooms — especially in the days after the election of Donald Trump.
Hernandez has returned to New Haven, an emerging artist, with work created to understand and heal from that experience. She’s showing that and new works reflecting the trucha, the slang Spanish word for “resilient strength,” of her Fair Haven family and neighbors, many undocumented, a quality that she had not fully appreciated before.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 5, 2017 7:40 am
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Titus Kaphar, one of the founders of the project.
A plan to transform a former Dixwell factory into an $5.8 million arts center got some support for its plans to make the former industrial space into studio space and residential units, with a lot less parking.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 4, 2017 7:53 am
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Artist Sara Scranton.
Artist and poet Daniel Eugene told me before his photo shoot with Sara Scranton at his Studio Feruvius in Westville that he plans to be the Patron Saint of Paper Trails.
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Andrew Koenig |
Oct 2, 2017 2:54 pm
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Breeden.
The dress forms outside of Civvies, a vintage clothing boutique at 845 Chapel St., change almost daily. In this respect, Civvies is not unlike the block it sits on between Orange and Church, where storefronts can turn over frequently.
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Christopher Peak |
Sep 27, 2017 8:04 am
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Titus Kaphar, one of the founders.
An abandoned Dixwell factory — last known for turning out counterfeit Dr. Dre “Beats” and “Lg Tone+” headsets — could get new life and compete with New York City studios to house the next generation of emerging artists, under a plan detailed to the zoning board Tuesday night.
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Andrew Koenig |
Sep 25, 2017 12:12 pm
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Nature morte aux grenades (“Still Life with Grenades”), detail.
“Artists in Exile,” at the Yale University Art Gallery until the end of the year, is as ambitious as it sounds. The exhibition fills several large rooms and, in the gallery’s own words, “spans 200 years of art history” and multiple continents. It’s big.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 20, 2017 7:58 am
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Detail from a section of NCR’s 1960s-era magnetic core memory.
They stood beside a sparkling display case holding folded and inked paper in organic-looking crumples, side by side with a small rectangle of superconducting aluminum that knows how to catch a single photon and once did.
The physicist said the crumples reminded him of hard to visualize quantum fluctuations. The artist said she wanted the papers to remain just as they are, slowly unfolding, or changing shape, being both what they are and something else they had just been. Or, as she put it, “multiple universes.”
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Allan Appel |
Sep 15, 2017 1:00 pm
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Wheeler’s “Unbound,” drawing and mixed media.
We all get a little smaller as we get older, but an entirely new perspective on aging — tiny parents in a haunted diorama — will make you think of The Incredible Shrinking Man or the revenge of Hansel and Gretel, or maybe the graphic correlative of a lyric poem.
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Andrew Koenig |
Sep 13, 2017 11:56 am
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Baker: On a roll.
It all started with the name. The way Danny Baker told it, his New Haven-based urbanwear brand, Local Scumbags, has its origins in a toast he proposed when he was out with friends.
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David Sepulveda |
Sep 6, 2017 12:18 pm
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Jimenez outside CAW.
Until Sunday, viewers approaching the glassy facade of Creative Arts Workshop (CAW) on Audubon Street will immediately notice the large-scale, exuberant paintings in the window. They were created through an interesting collaboration between students and teachers of CAW’s Young People’s Department participating in CAW’s Adventures in Summer Programs.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 25, 2017 12:06 pm
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A colorful three-story-tall banner of a charming silhouetted urban landscape — recognizable to New Haveners was unfurled Thursday morning on 817 Grand Ave.
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David Sepulveda |
Aug 20, 2017 1:45 pm
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Feiner.
Standing before a painting of menacing helicopters superimposed on diagonally fragmented red and white bars of a reimagined American flag, Devil’s Gear Bike Shop owner Matt Feiner pointed to a painting by New Haven artist Dooley‑O (“American revolution un-televised, 2017”), as an example of a work with an explicit message about the flag and the state of America.
“This is one of the most patriotic shows ever; true patriotism is to stand up to tyranny,” said Feiner.
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Colin Lodewick |
Aug 10, 2017 7:47 am
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Nona Faustine
“Over My Dead Body.”
Nude except for a pair of white pumps, Nona Faustine climbs the steps of the Tweed Courthouse in her 2013 photograph “Over My Dead Body.” The courthouse was built over the site of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, and as Faustine ascends its mountainous stairs, she holds a pair of shackles. The courthouse’s columns and three shut doors at the top wait for her. From her stance, though, it seems that the hostility of the architecture is not going to prevent her from accomplishing what she needs to accomplish.
