For today’s story, I intended to wander the vastness of the Yale University Art Gallery and curate from its variety a kind of cross-sectional Valentine’s Day exhibit. Thematic connections between seemingly disparate objects would hiss through the air and thunk …
Golden Ages
Like the actual 49ers who went west during the Gold Rush, the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs will rush (and pass and kick) for gold this Sunday. The victors’ deliriously opulent Super Bowl rings will be smithed from …
Arthouse Flicks
Bad news: Criterion Cinemas, New Haven’s only commercial movie theater, is shutting down.
Good news: The city’s galleries are picking up the slack. …
Novel Settings
Koffee?, Book Trader and Fussy are choice locations to sit among a cohort of locals typing away on sticker-stuck laptops. But if your great American novel demands an atmospheric shake-up, we’ve got ideas…
Going Fourth
America’s 246th birthday happens Monday, and we’re RSVPing yes.
In the meantime, we might head to…
Gold Mine
With an online preview yesterday, curator John Stuart Gordon saw a golden opportunity to mine the meaning beneath the metal that stars in his new exhibition, Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power…