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May 10, 2011
You're down to the last precious days to inspect the refreshing and evocative works in the "Precious Water: A Personal Response" exhibition at the Mystic Arts Center in Mystic. A terrific variety of artists explore the idea and...
May 5, 2011
Everybody loves getting something for nothing, and, with the current economy, it's even more of a kick. So imagine the fun when, this Saturday, you can get culture and art for free.
May 3, 2011
If every face is unique, so, naturally, is every portrait.
May 3, 2011
It's fortunate that we Connecticutians have such a lovely state flower: mountain laurel. As opposed to, oh, water hemlock, which is not only sort of ugly but also toxic. In any event, mountain laurel is indeed gorgeous.
That means...
April 26, 2011
Typically, you'd think an exhibition at the Artists' Cooperative of Westerly would feature work by, ah, Westerly artists - probably those who hold membership in the cooperative. Every year, though, the ACW expands its scope, and its...
April 23, 2011
A 1986 self-portrait by Andy Warhol that was among the last of his paintings to be exhibited while he was alive is heading for the auction block, where it is estimated to sell for up to $40 million.
April 19, 2011
Sixteenth-century poet Thomas Tusser is generally acknowledged as the father of the "April Showers / Bring May flowers" rhyme.
April 12, 2011
J.M.W. Turner painted "Approach to Venice" when he was 69 years old. Wassily Kandinsky completed "Composition IX" when he was 70. And, yes, one of El Greco's later works was a presumed self-portrait called "Portrait of an Old Man." Goes...
April 5, 2011
The idea of portraiture suggests an intimacy and a give-and-take between the subject and the artist. Which probably explains why no artist has ever asked to get up close and do a portrait of me! Several worthy subjects, however, will be...
April 4, 2011
Montville - The Fine Arts Department at St. Thomas More School will host its second annual fine arts exhibition from noon to 4 p.m. on April 30.
April 2, 2011
The one thing the six exhibiting artists have in common in "Common Ground" - the title of the current show at the Hygienic Art Galleries - is that they're all residents of New London.
April 2, 2011
Old Lyme - The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts will open its annual exhibition of artwork by college seniors with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on April 15.
March 29, 2011
Peek into a 320-foot blast crater in the Nevada desert or descend a Titan II missile silo in Arizona for a look at two of many "atomic tourism" sites around the world that offer history and sometimes lessons from the deadly aftermath of...
March 29, 2011
The neurological condition "synesthesia" is when you own a bunch of those electronic keyboards - synthesizers - like Keith Emerson. Not really. Synesthesia actually refers to when one type of stimulation - hearing a sound, for example -...
March 27, 2011
A decade ago, the Florence Griswold Museum received a gift that put the Old Lyme museum on the map as an art destination: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company's collection of 190 American paintings, prints, and...
March 15, 2011
There's something about the guy leaning on a post and checking his phone that catches Brandon Stanton's eye. So he stops, asks if he can take a photo, clicks and continues on his way.
March 15, 2011
I once spent hours driving upstate New York hoping to buy a T-shirt at the Hudson River School. Only later did I learn that's a metaphorical description of a certain type of painting. It's good stuff, though. In that spirit, "The Subject...
March 13, 2011
New York - A new exhibition from Italy that opened last week at New York's Discovery Times Square captures the last gasp of the ancient city of Pompeii before it was buried under volcanic ash, mud and rock when Mount...