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Joe LoPresti and Tracey Rose

Ink It Over

Getting a tattoo is harrowing. Pain is a given, and so is permanence. Your body’s in someone else’s hands, and one of those hands holds a rapid-firing needle, just as...

Ink It Over

Getting a tattoo is harrowing. Pain is a given, and so is permanence. Your body’s in someone else’s hands, and one of those hands holds a rapid-firing needle, just as...

Silas Finch at his workstation

Finder‘s Keepers

An aged pair of beige high heels sits atop New Haven sculptor Silas Finch’s workstation, their insoles covered in rose thorns collected, cut and placed by tattooed fingers. A 1930s...

Finder‘s Keepers

An aged pair of beige high heels sits atop New Haven sculptor Silas Finch’s workstation, their insoles covered in rose thorns collected, cut and placed by tattooed fingers. A 1930s...

"The Leave-Taking" by Margaret Lyster Chamberlain

Poetic Injustice

A skeletal, exhausted-looking man dressed in rags leans over a spade, preparing a hole in the ground. To the left, his wife hunches over a small bundle in her arms,...

Poetic Injustice

A skeletal, exhausted-looking man dressed in rags leans over a spade, preparing a hole in the ground. To the left, his wife hunches over a small bundle in her arms,...

Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School exterior 1

Arts and Labor

Being sent to the principal’s office isn’t so bad when you know the principal’s got your best interests at heart. There can be little doubt of that with Frank Costanzo,...

Arts and Labor

Being sent to the principal’s office isn’t so bad when you know the principal’s got your best interests at heart. There can be little doubt of that with Frank Costanzo,...

George Kulp and Peter Chenot in The Magician

Presto Chango

“Pah pah pah pah pah pah pah…” “B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b…” “Yow!” A few days ago, in garish black tuxedo and red dress shirt, deep-throated New Haven Theater Company actor George Kulp paced...

Presto Chango

“Pah pah pah pah pah pah pah…” “B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b…” “Yow!” A few days ago, in garish black tuxedo and red dress shirt, deep-throated New Haven Theater Company actor George Kulp paced...

Long Supply

Long Supply

To those who’d describe themselves as “non-artistic,” an art supply store like Hull’s, which has been around in one form or another since 1947, is full of potential intimidations. Rows...

Long Supply

To those who’d describe themselves as “non-artistic,” an art supply store like Hull’s, which has been around in one form or another since 1947, is full of potential intimidations. Rows...