by | Aug 7, 2017 12:14 pm | Comments (7)
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Tatters at Sunday’s protest.
A tattoo street battle came to Upper State Street, where a new combination parlor-school is offering classes that rub traditional skin-ink artists the wrong way.
by | Aug 3, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (0)
The Diesel Lounge on Upper State Street is launching a series of monthly pop-up exhibitions that will be showcasing works from “The Other Side.”
However, seance-seekers and Madame Blavatsky aficionados, despair in advance. For there will likely be no spirits, ghosts, or zombies mingling among the lounge lizards.
by | Jul 31, 2017 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
Christopher Peak Photo
Here: Krikko notes Union Station on his New Haven drawing.
Transit-riders heading down escalators to the tracks at Union Station can once again get a glimpse of their final destinations — New York City, Boston and, yes, New Haven — through the famed lead-pencil drawings of Gregory “Krikko” Obbott, a local artist whose prints have been sold worldwide.
by | Jul 28, 2017 7:55 am | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
May 15, 1967 edition of the Panthers’ community news service, Oakland, Calif.
On May 15, 1967, the Black Panther Defense Minister Huey Newton wrote, “Politics is war without bloodshed. War is politics with bloodshed.” On July 29 of the same year, Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner, appointed to head President Johnson’s national commission on civil disorders, after the Detroit riots, called the “the war on poverty and discrimination” a continuation of the American Revolution.
In between, on June 12, a landmark unanimous Supreme Court decision declared “marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man” and thereby ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage. That decision, Loving v. Virginia, is the title and trigger for “1967: The Summer of Loving,” a small but illuminating exhibition of books, photographs, and paper ephemera.
by | Jul 26, 2017 7:50 am | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
Detail from June Webster’s “Ticket to Ride.”
If Anne Doris-Eisner is a bit of an evangelist for the healing and redemptive power of making art, she has earned it, through a breakthrough in medium and subject matter after the death of her teenage son Matt.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Paint & Clay Club Going Strong At 116’
by | Jul 21, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (0)
Mueller with produced with Hill-Side Projects.
In marrying craftsmanship and financial savvy, a New Haven printshop has become a case study in keeping a creative business afloat.
by | Jul 18, 2017 7:36 am | Comments (2)
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Soldiers dig in.
After discovering a collection of his father’s dramatic World War ll letters at his home, artist Robert Reynolds set off on a physical and emotional journey to stand on the ground where his father fought and bled while serving in the South Pacific nearly 75 years ago.
Continue reading ‘Artist Traces Father’s Steps Through World War II’
by | Jul 13, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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“Obsidian Flow Oregon #1,” archival digital print by Bob Giannotti, curated by Alan Shulik
If you believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, then what if pictures can talk? And not only to us but to each other?
by | Jul 12, 2017 12:23 pm | Comments (1)
Brandi Fullwood Photo
Elizabeth Barton of Iron & Walnut.
On the most recent version of a new Westville Village art crawl Second Saturday, the artists working in West River Arts — a warren of second-floor studio spaces nestled amongst galleries, cafes, and commercial buildings on Whalley Avenue and Blake Street — threw their studios open for conversation with the community.
by | Jul 11, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
Front door is open again, by appointment.
After being shuttered for decades, Marcel Breuer‘s famous Brutalist elevated concrete griddle off I‑95 is opening its doors once again.
However, inside they’re not promoting Armstrong Rubber, which commissioned the building in 1968, or Pirelli Tires, or the sofas of IKEA, which still owns the building. Instead, an art show is on display. In the show, New Haven native, ECA graduate, and now distinguished conceptual artist Tom Burr offers art with evocations to New Haven’s recent past, including the 1970 May Day on the Green, Jean Genet’s defense of the Black Panthers, an era of borders and border crossings, and the arrest of Jim Morrison at the New Haven Arena in 1969.
by | Jul 10, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (6)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Lior Trestman and Sawyer Christmann help each other get the hard-to-reach spots.
Sarah Miller Photo
Sunday’s murals on the back of the school.
Just off Grand Avenue, an African woman carries a bundled baby on her back, a purple cloth pressing up into her hair. A half-pigeon, half-dove with pink and blue-green wings flies above. Just a few feet to the left, an activist steps forward, bangled, purple fist slicing the air triumphantly. The Quinnipiac River bridge beckons behind her.
Continue reading ‘Mural Makes Over Vacant Former Strong School’
by | Jul 6, 2017 11:35 am | Comments (1)
Eric Gallant Photo
Carnival lights glowing in the mist. A young man sweeping a basketball court. Downtown’s skyline under gray clouds. A truck, blinker blazing, making a left at an intersection.
These images and a couple hundred more were taken between 12 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on June 17 as part of New Haven Photo Day, and succeed in the project’s goal of creating “a broad portrait of New Haven on that day.”
Continue reading ‘Photographs Capture A Day In The City Life’
by | Jul 5, 2017 7:34 am | Comments (19)
The Route 34 underpass today (above) and after de Bretteville’s planned makeover (below).
Artist Photos
A dark, forbidding welcome walkway to New Haven may come alive with light and life, thanks to a premier public artist.
by | Jul 4, 2017 10:24 am | Comments (0)
Ely Center Photo
Natalie Baxter, America Current Mood.
As visitors entered the Ely Center of Contemporary Art for the center’s latest exhibit, they were offered copies of the Bill of Rights reproduced on white printer paper — giving a pointed political edge to the opening night of an already inherently political show. The reproduction of the historic document echoed the abundant reproduction of another American icon that was present: the American flag.
Continue reading ‘Ely Center Celebrates Precarious Independence’
by | Jul 3, 2017 12:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Fitmaurice left, Hesse Right.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven held a celebratory good-bye for Debbie Hesse, its director of programs and artistic services for the last 15 years. The amicable departure heralds a new focus for Hesse as well as for the Arts Council, which will see structural changes and a broadening of its scope of operations.
Continue reading ‘New Focus For Arts Council As Longtime Program Chief Departs’
by | Jul 3, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
At the municipal parking lot wall on Blake Street, off Whalley Avenue in Westville, artist Don Wunderlee unveiled a new mural Sunday.
by | Jun 28, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (3)
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New exterior mural at Soul de Cuba Cafe.
Soul de Cuba owner Jesus Puerto, along with his general manager Michael Lamele, took a colorful step in promoting their business’s concept beyond the confines of the Crown Street restaurant’s interior.
Continue reading ‘Soul de Cuba Aerosol Mural Navigates Cultural History’
by | Jun 27, 2017 12:26 pm | Comments (14)
Brian Slattery Photo
Cole.
James Montford drew on the walls of Artspace’s gallery Saturday evening, as the gallery on Orange and Crown celebrated its 30th anniversary. America, he wrote, in upside down letters that he then blotted with his hand. When he had finished his task, Shola Cole swooped in and began to own the space. She picked up a noose off the floor and regarded it like a historical artifact.
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,” Cole said, addressing the crowd in front of her, as if half-remembering the famous Emma Lazarus poem that adorns the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. She wrote it on the wall. “With conquering limbs astride from land to land,” she said with more certainty. “Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles.” Then she began to tell her own story.
Continue reading ‘Artspace Celebrates 30 Years With New Exhibition’
by | Jun 26, 2017 7:37 am | Comments (4)
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Before the installation.
A chain-link fence dotted with dying, rust-colored arborvitae shrubs is now the support for an eye-catching, street-level public art installation.
Continue reading ‘Elm City Mosaic Pieces Together Past And Present’
by | Jun 20, 2017 12:22 am | Comments (5)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Katro Storm paints the first horizon line.
Local artist Katro Storm painted a setting, peach-colored sun — and passed on the story of emancipation to young ears who hadn’t heard it before.
by | Jun 19, 2017 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Pasticiotti di ricotta, or little cakes with ricotta in the center.
Pressing his face close to a glass case, Fordham student David Cappetta zeroed in on his first subject: trays of cannoli and pasticiotti di ricotta, covered with powdered sugar. He took a deep breath in and steadied his camera. Click.
Jasmine Nicole Photo
At the top of East Rock.
Just a mile away in East Rock Park, Corey Hudson pointed out how light hit the branches early in the day. In Wooster Square, Chris Randall was documenting the stillness that comes each Saturday before a 9 a.m. farmer’s market. A few hours later, he would be marching down Congress Avenue, trailed by the smell of collard greens and macaroni and cheese.
by | Jun 14, 2017 7:38 am | Comments (3)
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One of several Artspace rooms.
The notion of the artist’s muse, and one artist’s practice in elevating the relationship between artist and model, is explored in a retrospective exhibit that is soon to close following a month-long run at Artspace on Orange and Crown.
by | Jun 13, 2017 11:57 am | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
Sack with her “Burst,” encaustic and mixed media.
You can paint with encaustic. You can sculpt with it and layer it. You can heat it so it’s like a molasses smoothy or heat it a little more so it can flow like water. When you add pigment, the colors are vivid. It shines up so it’s translucent, and it endures. The faces on Egyptian mummies still glow with it. Still, very few major artists in the last decades have used the technique.
That’s all about to change if it’s up to Ruth Sack.
by | Jun 8, 2017 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
YCBA Photos
Shaykh Zayn-al-Din, Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans), 1781, graphite and watercolor.
A stork dips its long beak into a deep green shell, dislodging something soft-bodied and gray that it’s going to eat for dinner. Just a stone’s throw away, an elaborate miniature of the Taj Mahal beckons from its glass case. In the next room, wild flowers bloom from a woman’s wide left eye, criss-crossing her face in a sort of floral map.
The three — all different media, which seemingly have nothing to do with each other — are brought together in “A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, the latest exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). Planned in conjunction with the YCBA’s 40th anniversary, the exhibition highlights some of the past decade’s greatest hits, honoring donors while also feting purchases that the curators have pursued and made.
by | Jun 7, 2017 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
A representative mural by Emilio Herrera Corichi.
As the city and community activists figure out the next incarnation for the vacant but venerable former Strong School building on Grand Avenue, vandals have been making it uglier by the day.
That’s about to change, thanks to the arts.
Continue reading ‘Wraparound Mural Coming To Shuttered School’