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Formal Introduction

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The second-floor painting studio at Creative Arts Workshop is a cavernous room with concrete floors and a patchwork of white wallboard. Slanted skylights let in the light of dusk. At (more…)

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Art Is Long

On The Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, 4286

The first women to study at Yale weren’t the undergraduates who turned up in the fall of 1969. (more…)

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Open Secrets

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In Kate Henderson’s painting The Source (2019), pools like oil slicks of blue and green and gold coalesce across a plane surrounded by tree-like spires. A blue arm points like a shaft of light to one pool, whose rings spread like the concentric circles of a pond disturbed by a pebble. As in many of […]

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Picking Up Threads

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Ancient tools become works of art in sculptor Yvonne Shortt’s project Picks from the Soil: Harvesting Community Narratives (more…)

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Starstruck

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Climb the Institute Library stairs and enter the constellations. (more…)

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That’s Him!

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“The Art Institute was yesterday afternoon the scene of a delicate and interesting experiment, upon the result of which a personal reputation may be said to have rested and certainly upon which the merit of a work of presumptive art did depend (more…)

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Bearing Gifts

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The Yale University Art Gallery is open again and with it some fresh, crowd-pleasing installations. (more…)

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Data Recovery

Artspace, March 26, 2021-June 26, 2021

W.E.B. Du Bois was an early giant of the Civil Rights movement. He also has a New Haven connection (more…)

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Physical Therapy

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For the past three years, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art has issued an Open Call. Artists from anywhere can (more…)

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Access Panel

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A camera travels up a stairway, around a corner, down a hall. A key unlocks a door. “Hi, everybody. Welcome to my studio,” says New Haven artist Susan McCaslin. (more…)

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