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Keeping It Reel

Keeping It Reel

As the Oscars approach, opinions abound on actors, directors, screenplays, special effects and more. But few of us give any thought to the physical film itself. While most people now...

Keeping It Reel

As the Oscars approach, opinions abound on actors, directors, screenplays, special effects and more. But few of us give any thought to the physical film itself. While most people now...

Unknown artist (Dutch School), The Paston Treasure, ca. 1663, oil on canvas, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, courtesy of Norfolk Museums Service

Unburied Treasure

The Paston Treasure, the enormous centerpiece of the Yale Center for British Art’s new exhibition The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, is bursting at the seams with precious...

Unburied Treasure

The Paston Treasure, the enormous centerpiece of the Yale Center for British Art’s new exhibition The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World, is bursting at the seams with precious...

Unsafe Space

Unsafe Space

Danger lurks in Artspace’s exhibition Between Beauty and Decay, and the dangerous thing is us. You may sense peril as soon as you step through the gallery doorway’s billowing black...

Unsafe Space

Danger lurks in Artspace’s exhibition Between Beauty and Decay, and the dangerous thing is us. You may sense peril as soon as you step through the gallery doorway’s billowing black...

Kenneth Joseph and the St. Luke’s Steel Band

By Oil Means

They’re “just not like anything else,” Debby Teason says. “They’re really magical.” She’s talking about steelpans. (Please, don’t call them drums.) The founding director of St. Luke’s Steel Band, Teason...

By Oil Means

They’re “just not like anything else,” Debby Teason says. “They’re really magical.” She’s talking about steelpans. (Please, don’t call them drums.) The founding director of St. Luke’s Steel Band, Teason...

Howard2 and IKB by Linda Lindroth

2D or Not 2D

Walk into Linda Lindroth’s Willow Street studio and you may be drawn to the walls with your hands outstretched. You may want to touch the worn velvet, the ragged cardboard,...

2D or Not 2D

Walk into Linda Lindroth’s Willow Street studio and you may be drawn to the walls with your hands outstretched. You may want to touch the worn velvet, the ragged cardboard,...

Newberry Memorial Organ - Woolsey Hall - New Haven, CT

Vital Organ

Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle...

Vital Organ

Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle...