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Window Treatments

Window Treatments

For most of us, stained glass and churches go hand in hand. The medium’s nectar luminosity and capacity for narrative imagery have long been used to invoke the divine. But...

Window Treatments

For most of us, stained glass and churches go hand in hand. The medium’s nectar luminosity and capacity for narrative imagery have long been used to invoke the divine. But...

Independence Review

Independence Review

As the United States of America’s 249th birthday approaches, you can, at the Yale University Art Gallery, return to the country’s date of birth. John Trumbull’s painting The Declaration of...

Independence Review

As the United States of America’s 249th birthday approaches, you can, at the Yale University Art Gallery, return to the country’s date of birth. John Trumbull’s painting The Declaration of...

Equal Terms

Equal Terms

On January 29, 1864, a “large, well-formed and dignified man” stepped onto a “sort of rude balcony” at Grape Vine Point, where the Mill River meets the Quinnipiac. More than...

Equal Terms

On January 29, 1864, a “large, well-formed and dignified man” stepped onto a “sort of rude balcony” at Grape Vine Point, where the Mill River meets the Quinnipiac. More than...

Hard ’Facts

Hard ’Facts

Within the narrow world of collecting local artifacts, some objects are an easy sell. Others are harder to move, whether for dullness, triviality, obscurity or the fact that they weigh...

Hard ’Facts

Within the narrow world of collecting local artifacts, some objects are an easy sell. Others are harder to move, whether for dullness, triviality, obscurity or the fact that they weigh...

Crossing the Lines

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the federal government, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real wires....

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the federal government, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real wires....

Backpedaling

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride my bike.I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race,” Queen, 1978 Released the year...

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride my bike.I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race,” Queen, 1978 Released the year...