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Works in Progress

Works in Progress

I had never fully considered the social and cultural content of the color pink until I saw Sheila Levrant de Bretteville’s 1974 broadside Pink. Designed for an American Institution of...

Works in Progress

I had never fully considered the social and cultural content of the color pink until I saw Sheila Levrant de Bretteville’s 1974 broadside Pink. Designed for an American Institution of...

Garden Party

Garden Party

It’s teatime. Four women—Sally, Vi, Lena and Mrs. Jarrett—sit in a homey English garden, “nattering” (chatting) during a series of blue sky afternoons about their families, their neighbors, their former...

Garden Party

It’s teatime. Four women—Sally, Vi, Lena and Mrs. Jarrett—sit in a homey English garden, “nattering” (chatting) during a series of blue sky afternoons about their families, their neighbors, their former...

Good Bones

Good Bones

I never got over Brontosaurus excelsus (“noble thunder lizard” for those of us who don’t speak ancient Greek). I don’t know when I first visited Yale’s Peabody Museum, probably at...

Good Bones

I never got over Brontosaurus excelsus (“noble thunder lizard” for those of us who don’t speak ancient Greek). I don’t know when I first visited Yale’s Peabody Museum, probably at...

Good and Mad

Good and Mad

A photo/video essay. To see all 14 images/gifs, check out the email edition. March Madness doesn’t arrive for two weeks, but there was already a mad mood Saturday night in...

Good and Mad

A photo/video essay. To see all 14 images/gifs, check out the email edition. March Madness doesn’t arrive for two weeks, but there was already a mad mood Saturday night in...

Indie Production

Indie Production

As a Trinity College undergraduate in 1973, I was thrilled to discover Cinestudio. I was already a movie enthusiast, but that was a far different era, before the growth of...

Indie Production

As a Trinity College undergraduate in 1973, I was thrilled to discover Cinestudio. I was already a movie enthusiast, but that was a far different era, before the growth of...

Baby Talk

Baby Talk

Laughter outshines tears in the New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, at least for anyone who has ever given birth to or cared for a baby. The...

Baby Talk

Laughter outshines tears in the New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, at least for anyone who has ever given birth to or cared for a baby. The...