Untitled mixed media by Paola Gutierrez, 10th grade, Riverside Educational Academy
Do you want to see what Paul Klee means to third-graders at the Bishop Woods School? Or what Picasso means to kids at the Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy? Or what students learned of the meditative lines of Agnes Martin at the Columbus Family Academy in Fair Haven?
Go to the Ives Gallery, in the downstairs of the main library, where New Haven art teachers and their students have mounted an impressive snapshot of visual art achievement citywide through the schools’ first marking period this year.
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Dec 7, 2016 1:06 pm
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Sheppard performs “Liberty’s Cry” at cops-and-art forum.
“It would have been nice to see you come in your regular clothes, bring a pizza or something,” Alexis Ward told the assistant chief of police. “So we could have a regular conversation.”
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Lucy Gellman |
Dec 7, 2016 1:03 pm
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Kendall.
Wednesday’s programs explore the new face of law enforcement, express concerns about President-Elect Donald J. Trump, celebrate a local rabbi, and dive headfirst into a new exhibition.
There’s a two-faced CIA agent who wears both faces at the same time.
There’s a desperate villager, a U.S. soldier, and a Soviet general.
And those pretty decorative patterns on the various surfaces? On closer inspection, they just might turn out to be a lovely visual marriage of opium poppies and Kalashnikovs.
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David Sepulveda |
Dec 5, 2016 1:00 pm
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The Sunday December 4 strip. Courtesy Garry B. Trudeau.
The first splash of color in this week’s nationally syndicated Doonesbury Sunday strip by Garry B. Trudeau doesn’t appear until the sixth panel of the nine-panel strip. So what happened to the color?
One has been operating a private community art school for 11 years. Another recently retired from teaching in a public school art classroom — which he affectionately called his “studio” — for, count ‘em, 36 years.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 28, 2016 3:50 pm
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“Ghost House” by Eric March, oil on wood panel
I’ve always argued that owning a home or any other kind of building is just rent by another name. Whether renting and owning, the arrangement is ultimately temporary, evanescent.
Now “Abide,” the latest art exhibition at the Grove — the co-working space on Chapel Street — proves to my many detractors that I am undoubtedly right.
“Rift #20,” archival pigment print, Marion Belanger, 2006.
Many years ago when curator Stephen Kobasa and his wife Anne Somsel were on their honeymoon in Nova Scotia and Maine, their route took them one night up to a bridge engulfed in fog.
“What if the bridge ends where the fog begins?” they asked each other.
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Sophie Haigney |
Nov 2, 2016 8:13 am
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A view of Erector Square through artist Annie Sailer’s studio window.
It was a little hard to locate the line between Joseph Saccio’s studio and his sculpture.
His materials and his finished work were both on display at the final weekend of Artspace’s City Wide Open Studios, at Erector Square. Slabs of oak, round stones, rolled-up maps, bright scarves, and little metal trinkets were scattered throughout the studio — and his stunning natural sculptures almost appeared to grow from this pleasant disorder.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 27, 2016 8:14 am
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Artists’ studios at Erector Square have been crackling with activity this week as artists straighten out their spaces and make important aesthetic decisions about what to show, and how best to show it, in preparation for the thousands of visitors who will attend their studios during the final weekend of City Wide Open Studios.
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Lucy Gellman |
Oct 26, 2016 11:54 am
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Tody’s programs on WNHH radio investigate mental health practices, explore new economic and arts collaborations in the city, get into some serious music making, and catch up on city politics.
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Lucy Gellman |
Oct 26, 2016 11:53 am
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A Harvest Mandala.
Laughing, New Havener Anna Bresnick motioned to the small, richly purple eggplant she was holding, said its name out loud, and then rolled it gently across the tabletop to her grandson, Elan Arias. He giggled, reached out, and inspected it before focusing on the next vegetable Bresnick was holding: a long, sweet cayenne pepper, waxy in the building’s low light.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 26, 2016 11:51 am
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Amen Ra at the kick off of City Wide Open Studios with one of his pastel drawings.
“I met him two years ago walking painfully with diabetic feet on Temple Street on the Green. He had rolled up papers stuck in his backpack. Artwork. His.”
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 25, 2016 8:02 pm
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A cloud of bright yellow sulfur snaked across the ceiling of the hayloft of the 200-year-old Eli Whitney Barn. Down below, on the barn’s floor, animals were set loose to cavort across canvases or perch on the walls, and an ink press rolled. In another part of the barn, a flotilla of miniature people began their journey across a table.
That was the scene on Saturday as the historic barn, on Whitney Avenue where the road crosses from New Haven into Hamden, hosted the work of artists Alexis Brown, Leslie Carmin, Susan Clinard, Kiara Matos, Maura Galante, and Martha Willette Lewis as part of City Wide Open Studios’ Private Studios Weekend, which found artists throwing open their studios for public visits on Oct. 22 and 23, and banding together at several locations across town — including the barn — for people to take a look at what they’ve been up to.
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Lucy Gellman |
Oct 23, 2016 10:15 am
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Garlick.
Valerie Garlick’s journey to executive director of the Institute Library started with a single thought, while her eyes were glued to the building’s extensive water damage: I could fix that.
After bothering at least one correctional worker and one police officer, Gordon Skinner’s depiction of a pig cop provoked a different kind of complaint at a Ninth Square gathering Thursday night: Why was the work moved from its original perch?
That led to a broader set of questions: Whose voices matter, how much, and why?
Those questions were raised at Artspace’s Orange Street gallery Thursday night as close to 50 artists, students, activists and community members gathered to discuss the social value of controversial public art, and how both an institution and a city should respond to calls for that art to be altered or taken down.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 20, 2016 5:00 pm
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Hanifa Washington, curator of Literary Happy Hour.
City Wide Open Studios (CWOS) Weekend at the Goffe Street Armory was not just for gigantic, interactive games and eclectic visual art. A “Literary Happy Hour” tour was also in the offing as spoken word, story telling and poetry performances occupied spaces in the Armory alongside sculptures, paintings and installations.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 20, 2016 11:03 am
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The artist with photographs.
The tiny ward room in the hospital is a ruin. A mattress-less steel bed frame is its only occupant.
The room is also haunted by decomposing photographs of its former denizens, those life-size images themselves flaking off the flaking walls. It makes for a double demise, of both the place and the memory of the place.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 16, 2016 4:01 pm
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Fekieta, top right; visitor vows, above.
In what used to be the Goffe Street Armory’s ladies’ powder room, artist Joe Fekieta had grown a tree for his show this weekend at City Wide Open Studios. He called it the tree of life, though its branches were bare.
It was up to visitors to give it leaves, one by one. First they had to write a promise on each leaf.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 16, 2016 10:09 am
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“Crowds”- Eoin Burke
Sculptures at Lyric Hall.
Last weekend, the first in a series of four weekends of City Wide Open Studios kicked off in Westville, marking a watershed moment in the life of this emerging arts district. Consideration of Westville’s entree as a full-fledged, City Wide Open Studios (CWOS) weekend destination had its pros and cons according to Helen Kauder, executive director of Artspace, which sponsors the nearly month-long arts festival in New Haven.
A public discussion about the controversy over where to hang Gordon Skinner’s “Cops” — a work of art depicting a police officer as a pig — has been pushed back a week.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 13, 2016 8:07 am
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High chest of drawers, John Townsend, Newport, RI, 1759
A young newlywed couple, good subjects of the crown in colonial Rhode Island, are very fashionable, and they’re sufficiently well-to-do to support their good taste.
They want for their first home together a decidedly French-looking table, with its serpentinely curved legs and expensive marble top, of a kind that might have been found in a far-away chamber at Louis XIV’s Versailles.
Does it matter that when the couple decide to purchase the Gallic pier tables of their dreams that the British are fighting the French in The French and Indian War?
Complaints about a painting of a pig with a police cap forced the artwork from an outdoor display — but not before sparking a public debate about where art belongs.
Gordon Skinner’s piece has moved from the Goffe Street Armory to Artspace’s Orange Street gallery after the city heard objections from law enforcement.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 10, 2016 12:08 pm
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CWOS artists get ready for a group jump.
Just outside Artspace, the City Wide Open Studios (CWOS) arts hub on Orange Street, a group of artists cast their collective gaze to an upper window of a building on Crown Street.
