We’re celebrating 2023 by revisiting some of the year’s most memorable photo essays, each plucked from—and emblematic of—one of the four seasons. After winter, spring and summer, now, at last, it’s autumn’s turn, with this October 26 essay covering a local fall tradition. (more…)
Plein Language
“Everything just keeps changing,” Bill Meddick says as he presses his brush to his palette. (more…)
The Art of Illusion
We think we’re in control of how we see things, but the paintings of Bridget Riley, including the many now on view at the Yale Center for British Art, remind us our eyes possess a mind of their own. (more…)
Formal Education
Five-pointed stars are transformed into delicate pentagons, and red and white stripes become a red, purple, pink, gray and white tapestry in fabric artist Rita Hannafin’s American Texture, now on view in (more…)
World Processing
For Meg Bloom, a walk in the woods isn’t just a walk. She’s likely to come home with bark and twigs and vines, all destined to become part of her art. In Buried in the Bones, on exhibit at City Gallery through February 28, Bloom brings together homemade paper and artifacts from nature into a […]
Government Agency
In 1961, Robert A. Dahl, then the chair of political science at Yale, published what would become a seminal book on “the political structure of a typical American city”—New Haven. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City traces the evolution of political power from New Haven’s first patricians to its 19th-century entrepreneurs to […]
Time Apart
“Primer on canvas,” begins the list of media for a celebrated work by the artist Damien Hirst. Familiar enough. But the list goes on: “pupae, steel, potted flowers, live butterflies, Formica, MDF, bowls, sugar-water solution, fruit, radiators, heaters, cool misters, air vents, lights, thermometers and humidistats.” Nearly 30 years ago, on the ground floor of […]
The Shape of Things
In painting after painting in Shilo Ratner’s soon-ending solo exhibition at DaSilva Gallery, big blocks of color meet contrasting angles and lines and bands. (more…)
Diplomatic Mission
From the outside, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike looks like an ordinary office building. (more…)