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…)
Art Is Long
The first women to study at Yale weren’t the undergraduates who turned up in the fall of 1969. (more…)
Open Secrets
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 […]
Picking Up Threads
Ancient tools become works of art in sculptor Yvonne Shortt’s project Picks from the Soil: Harvesting Community Narratives (more…)
That’s Him!
“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…)
Bearing Gifts
The Yale University Art Gallery is open again and with it some fresh, crowd-pleasing installations. (more…)
Data Recovery
W.E.B. Du Bois was an early giant of the Civil Rights movement. He also has a New Haven connection (more…)
Physical Therapy
For the past three years, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art has issued an Open Call. Artists from anywhere can (more…)
Access Panel
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…)