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Water reflections

 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...

Free! Absolutely free! Saturday at the Florence Griswold Museum

 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.

Lyman Allyn show explores the many faces of modern portraiture

 May 3, 2011

If every face is unique, so, naturally, is every portrait.

Flower power

 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...

Artists' Coop hosts regional show

 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...

Warhol self-portrait heads to auction block

 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.

Art in full bloom at Cooley Gallery

 April 19, 2011

Sixteenth-century poet Thomas Tusser is generally acknowledged as the father of the "April Showers / Bring May flowers" rhyme.

Mature talent at Lyme Academy

 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...

Go ahead and face it: Portraits by contemporary artists

 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...

Art exhibition planned at St. Thomas More

 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.

Six artists, one city at the Hygienic

 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.

Lyme Academy seniors to show works

 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.

Revisiting the atomic age: The Japan crisis has boosted interest in nuclear power

 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...

Sense and sensibility

 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 -...

Steamboiler collection is quite at home in Old Lyme

 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...

New York City photo project creates a visual census

 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.

Shedding light on the subject

 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...

Revisit Pompeii by way of New York City

 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...

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