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Allan Appel |
May 19, 2016 7:25 am
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“The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane,” by Alfred and John Bool, 1875.
By the late 1800s, when railroads had become the dominant transportation mode, medieval coaching inns in London — hubs for horse-borne travelers like in the Canterbury Tales — were all but extinct, and the survivors were facing the wrecking ball.
In rushed the first wave of documentary photographers with the glorious illusion that the past, or at least its spirit, might be preserved in an image.
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Brian Slattery |
May 19, 2016 7:22 am
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There’s a rack of linked sausages, drawn on the back of an envelope. In a collage, someone with the head of a fish is cozying up to a suspicious-looking woman in front of a church. At the orange entrance to a distillery, a long, unattended ladder is propped up next to the entrance to the safety shop.
What does it all mean?
It’s part of artist Tasha Lewis’s project Illustrating Ulysses, on view at the Institute Library until May 29. This multimedia show offers hundreds of delights, both for Joyceans preparing for Bloomsday and those who have never cracked open James Joyce’s famously difficult masterpiece — but might like to.
Then, on Wednesday, as vice president and chief installer of the venerable New Haven Paint and Clay Club, he put the finishing touches on hanging 60 works in the club’s 115th annual juried exhibition.
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Lucy Gellman |
May 11, 2016 7:55 am
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Miller.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio give a teary sendoff to one of New Haven’s top cops, pursue new solutions for old cities, and look at the newly conserved and reopened Yale Center for British Art.
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Lucy Gellman |
May 11, 2016 7:39 am
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Dort or Dordrecht.
Look quickly, and there’s nothing revolutionary about the Yale Center for British Art’s reinstalled Turner Bay, a pleasant, sun-soaked gallery that makes little allusion to the painter’s once avant-garde reputation. On one wall, Turner’s celebrated Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed hangs where it’s always been, a nearby cluster of chairs almost begging the viewer to take a load off and contemplate the gold-flecked clouds, still water, and doughy and animated faces.
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Lucy Gellman |
May 9, 2016 7:11 am
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Kimbro.
Taking in the sounds of Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps and Arms & Voices as a mist began to fall over Whalley Avenue, pint-sized Westvillian Ava Kimbro and her mom Marjorie made a decision: stick it out, at least until Ava could get a big, blooming flower painted on her face. After all, this was their third Westville Artwalk, and they weren’t going to be that easily deterred. They inched toward the front of the line, where face artist Lauren Wilson was hard at work with her palettes, brushes, and stencils.
“Green Herb,” acrylic on canvas, by Eugene Magliaro.
Eugene Magliaro’s acrylic on canvas painting is all grays and blacks. It is by his own description a stark vision, grim and apocalyptic. Yet its most important feature, from which it gets its name, is the “green herb budding” at the lower left of the composition.
Magliaro said that makes the picture’s theme a triumph of optimism against great odds.
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David Sepulveda |
Apr 28, 2016 7:36 am
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The spring show invitation.
It has been almost a year since the ribbon was cut at the opening of 101 (ART) Threads, an airy, downtown art gallery located at 118 Court Street. The gallery is marking its first anniversary with a sizable spring group show: a collection of around 50 works representing an array of media and artists from greater New Haven and broader New England.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Apr 28, 2016 7:36 am
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Greenberg.
Robert Greenberg gave New Haven a unique birthday present — a permanent installation showing off his extensive collection of artifacts documenting the city’s history and present.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 18, 2016 12:27 pm
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Pacacha & Ely ex-curator Anna Bresnick at hearing.
After being closed for almost a year while facing an uncertain future, the John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art is about to get some lovin’ from a new landlord and new/old tenants.
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David Sepulveda |
Apr 15, 2016 7:23 am
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Jamia Jones, Hamden High senior.
High school senior Jamia Jones found it “nerve-racking” to stand at the open mic to begin her spoken-word piece on the floor of the Long Wharf Theatre main stage at the second annual Moments and Minutes Festival.
On the tail of some strongly-worded responses to the Yale Humanist Community’s effort to erect a nine-sided obelisk on the New Haven Green, YHC director Chris Stedman came on WNHH radio’s “Artbeat” give an impassioned defense of the installation and discuss the ins and outs of crowdfunding with crowdfunding advisor Onyeka Obiocha. Today’s broadcasts explore that controversy, and more.
When Josh Gaetjen rolled into 116 Crown for a midweek refresher, he didn’t have a drink du jour in mind. Nor the deviled eggs from the bar’s back tables. He was there to talk about his career as an artist, celebrating the new placement of his paintings on the bar’s exposed brick walls.
When Roslyn Meyer was told she had stage four melanoma, she never imagined that she’d be in Norway 11 years later chasing the aurora borealis with a camera.
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Lucy Gellman |
Mar 30, 2016 7:08 am
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“projected fragments 4/4
nairobi by night”
When 2ManySiblings‘s Papa Petit opened his computer to an email from Efe Igor, doctoral student in history at Yale University, asking him to share work at Yale’s week-long 2016 Africa Salon, he thought it was a hoax. Coming over to his computer to look at the message, his sister — the other sibling of the 2Many Siblings brand — agreed. This was probably something fishy that they shouldn’t pay attention to.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 22, 2016 12:59 pm
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Curator Seals beside work by Laura Mosquera.
A few years ago artist Jon Seals was taking a course entitled “Worship in the Face of Death.” Seals was still trying to come to terms with the sudden death of his younger brother David in a motorcycle accident in 2006. He hoped the class would help.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 18, 2016 12:10 pm
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Reiniger with an untitled Zlatnikov portrait in the new show.
A painting by an unknown artist showed up at the office of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Though clearly by a naive and self-taught hand, the picture moved Matt Reiniger — and sparked an unusual encounter with an idiosyncratic Russian immigrant artists whose works are now on display for all of New Haven to see.
The artist is getting his due, a bit too late to enjoy it.
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David Sepulveda |
Mar 15, 2016 1:59 pm
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“Untitled 5” mixed media, M. Benoit, Gallery photo.
Artist Michelle Benoit was in the right place at the right time to collect remnants came from special bulletproof plexiglass panels designed to protect President Obama during speeches made in 2008.
