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Drawing Interest

Drawing Interest

Merle Nacht grew up in a “notch”: in Erie, Pennsylvania, “up in the northwest little notch” of that state, “on Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo” but closer, as the...

Drawing Interest

Merle Nacht grew up in a “notch”: in Erie, Pennsylvania, “up in the northwest little notch” of that state, “on Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo” but closer, as the...

House Inspection

House Inspection

As you find your seat at Long Wharf Theatre, the stage is already set for Eliana Pipes’s Dream Hou$e—specifically, the living room. Floral art and Madonnas hang on stucco walls...

House Inspection

As you find your seat at Long Wharf Theatre, the stage is already set for Eliana Pipes’s Dream Hou$e—specifically, the living room. Floral art and Madonnas hang on stucco walls...

Open Books

Open Books

National Book Award finalist Leslie Connor has been “mucking about and wandering” in the woods and rock-walled pastures of Connecticut since visiting her grandparents as a child. Now a long-time...

Open Books

National Book Award finalist Leslie Connor has been “mucking about and wandering” in the woods and rock-walled pastures of Connecticut since visiting her grandparents as a child. Now a long-time...

The Art of Illusion

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...

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...

Reopening Act

Reopening Act

Three years—almost an entire high school career. That’s how long it’s been since the last in-person performance by Wilbur Cross High School’s Lights Up Drama Club, whose production of Freaky...

Reopening Act

Three years—almost an entire high school career. That’s how long it’s been since the last in-person performance by Wilbur Cross High School’s Lights Up Drama Club, whose production of Freaky...

Gold Mine

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,...

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,...