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David Sepulveda |
Jul 21, 2016 2:53 pm
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Design Monsters’ George Corsillo, a self-described “font freak,” has earned a book jacket design credit for “YUGE!” (30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump), a timely new anthology by nationally syndicated Doonesbury cartoon creator and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 21, 2016 7:44 am
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This Dr. Seussian hat is not in “Shuffle & Shake,” the playful new show that combines painting, photography, mixed media, and a literary installation at the Arts Council’s Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery on Audubon Street.
Yet all the nine artists in the show owe the lucky hat a debt of gratitude as their names, written on small slips of white paper, were randomly chosen out of more than 600 fellow members of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 15, 2016 7:48 am
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Eighteen of New Haven’s most newly married couples are not only getting along great — they’re also willing to open up and tell you the secret of their happy pairings.
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David Sepulveda |
Jul 7, 2016 8:33 am
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A group of children skip along the image of an elongated, reclining figure, as if swept up by a magical energy field. The process of discovery leads them past swirling lines trailing from mandala-like starbursts, part of the internal galaxy that animates “Marielle” — as in, the light of Marielle, a new mural and the latest installation in a series of recent public art works commissioned by Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA).
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Allan Appel |
Jun 30, 2016 7:50 am
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In chain-store Singapore, where she had been teaching for a year, Jessica Hanser dearly missed being able to go to independent local coffee shops where she could hang out and enjoy not only the culinary fare, but also the local artists the small businesses helped to support.
On her first day back and out and about in New Haven, Hanser thus hit the jackpot at Atticus Bookstore and Cafe on Chapel Street.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am
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It may be a haunted glade in a liminal forest. It may be the patterns of the universe. It may be the Grim Reaper and friends doing the hokey pokey, or the gossamer traces of a coven of witches. Or an old folks’ home for decaying lumps of cotton candy or wasps’ nest. Or it may be just what it is — artistically arranged soaked, cooked, and stretched fibers of the Thai kozo or mulberry tree.
Whatever it is, Meg Bloom is not about to tell you
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Allan Appel |
Jun 23, 2016 6:51 am
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Paula Konareski likes to make her walls beautiful with art for her customers. And only once, years ago, did she exercise a little censorship: when the photos on the wall displayed drains clogged with food scraps and gobs of discarded coffee grounds.
You can’t really blame her.
The walls in question are at Cafe George by Paula. It’s an eatery beloved and well patronized, and a bit of a hidden treasure at 300 George St.
For 14 years Konareski, as owner and eclectic curator, has offered the space free of charge to budding and accomplished artists to display their work during the busy breakfast and lunch times, and reap 100 percent of the profits from sales.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2016 7:16 am
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There’s a green box, flattened, framed, and hanging on the wall. Next to it is an enormous wad of crumpled yellow paper, also flattened and framed. Not far away, another flattened box has the word India printed on it.
What is the intention of the artist? How do I, who know little about visual art, begin to approach it?
From an audio speaker nearby, Laurie Anderson’s unlikely 1982 hit “O Superman” starts. And suddenly it’s as though some conceptual and emotional door has opened to Linda Lindroth’s art — whose works these are — and I walk through it.
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David Sepulveda |
Jun 16, 2016 7:42 am
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Proclaiming that “this isn’t just another project,” Andy Montelli, Post Road Residential founder and developer of Corsair, a new luxury residential complex at 1050 State St., has not only embraced a slice of New Haven manufacturing history in the project’s creation, but commissioned some of New Haven’s best-known artists and artisans for site-specific installations at Corsair that highlight local manufacturing and the spirit of a people building a nation.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 15, 2016 7:30 am
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Ridha Ali Ahmed travels light.
His suitcase contains only an always-sharp pencil for the endless forms to be filled out, a demure but sturdy heart locket full of love, and a long-stemmed rose. The valise is only about two by three inches, is open to the air on both sides, and has a black handle almost too tiny to see or even grasp.
Yet this “Refugee Suitcase,” and creative work like it, have enabled its creator — a member of the persecuted Turkmen minority in Iraq — to travel very far, eventually settle in New Haven, become a U.S. citizen, and, most importantly, stay sane through the healing powers of art.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 13, 2016 7:52 am
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The fabric starts as a bold field of red, showing off the astonishingly high thread count, before it gives way to a black-and-white checkerboard pattern that repeats for the remaining length of the piece. It’s a thoroughly modern celebration of geometry, color, and simplicity. And it’s about 500 years old.
Photographer Marjorie Gillette Wolfe wanted to study the personality of a mobile home when it wasn’t mobile any more, and instead just hanging around at the owner’s stationary home.
Another photographer, Mark K. St. Mary, wanted to know if he photographed differently when away from home — that is, with the wider, discovering eyes of a traveler. Or with eyes challenged to overcome the more familiar if working at home.
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David Sepulveda |
Jun 8, 2016 7:10 am
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Several brawls are now in progress as you read this — a biomorphic choreography of human outrage and agitation and the chaos it inspires. It’s the subject of artist Steve DiGiovanni’s paintings presently sharing space with the new work of artist Megan Craig at Audubon Street’s Silk Road Art Gallery.
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David Sepulveda |
Jun 6, 2016 1:52 pm
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Tracey Davis painted a star, a heart and a human stick figure next to her name, “like the ones I used to draw when I attended the Q House as a child.”
The traffic in the cities of Gujarat in western India was so bad this spring — minimal order amid always imminent chaos — that Meghan Shah started painting lines on inexpensive scarves she bought on the street corner for 60 rupees each, which is less than a dollar.
After a while she realized what she was doing: investing in her own unique transportation infrastructure that could carry her wherever her artistic imagination wanted to go, without delays.
Now back home in New Haven, that road is leading her to go back to graduate school in making textile art.
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Brian Slattery |
May 31, 2016 7:34 am
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A rich, powerful person retires to his palatial home outside the city. He decides it needs decorating, and hires the best artists he can think of to do it. The collaboration between the artists, there in that place, produces an aesthetic that turns out to ripple throughout society, and in the years that follow.
Steve Jobs in Palo Alto? Donald Trump in Palm Beach? Nope: Francis I in Fontainebleau, France. In the 16th century.
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Allan Appel |
May 31, 2016 7:30 am
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As the hypochondriacal nephew of seven doctors, I have it on good authority that young doctors often fear they are coming down with the diseases they study, especially in the early stage of medical training.
It’s also well known that they enjoy a good laugh to relieve the tension of the work.
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David Sepulveda |
May 27, 2016 7:18 am
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Ten images depict local Hispanic families who appear safe and happy for the moment. The portraits exhibited at Junta For Progressive Action on Grand Avenue belie their fragility, as the specter of family disruption looms over their lives and the lives of countless others every day.
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Lucy Gellman |
May 25, 2016 7:21 am
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Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio familiarize listeners with the fundamentals of Ramadan, celebrate some of New Haven’s newly-minted college graduates and seasoned videographers, tackle troubleshooting in the Midwest, and head for the soccer … er, football … field as summer begins.
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Lucy Gellman |
May 25, 2016 7:19 am
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When Matt Feiner sailed over the handlebars of his bike in a freak accident, the impact shattered his bones and his helmet, shaking him to the core. Regaining his mental health would take even longer than the physical recovery.
A deep blue pen — and later, collages, one for every day of the year — helped, sketching out his recuperation in real time.
A mystery “shippe” loaded with New Haven’s original mercantile dreams was sighted centuries after its disappearance, right at the center of modern-day New Haven commerce.
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Allan Appel |
May 23, 2016 7:00 am
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It began four years ago with 50 paintings contributed by 12 artists from 20 towns in southern Connecticut.
Roll the clock ahead to today, as the annual Art of Aging exhibition, organized by the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut, celebrates older folks’ creativity and contributions. It now attracts 78 artists, contributing 180 works, from 43 separate towns.