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States of Nature

States of Nature

On my way into the Yale University Art Gallery, I was accosted by a pair of strangers. “You have to go to the top floor,” they said. “The exhibit there...

States of Nature

On my way into the Yale University Art Gallery, I was accosted by a pair of strangers. “You have to go to the top floor,” they said. “The exhibit there...

First Class

First Class

The oft-recited words of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are fresh and funny as they’re read by students sitting around a large table in the recital hall at Neighborhood Music...

First Class

The oft-recited words of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are fresh and funny as they’re read by students sitting around a large table in the recital hall at Neighborhood Music...

Back to Reality

Back to Reality

A “machine-made machine” opens the newest exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art. That’s how co-curator Tim Barringer describes a gilded clock that stands in a case before a...

Back to Reality

A “machine-made machine” opens the newest exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art. That’s how co-curator Tim Barringer describes a gilded clock that stands in a case before a...

Messengers

Messengers

“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed back in 1964. It’s a useful line to carry into Harmonious Discord, the latest exhibition at Whitney Center’s Perspectives gallery in...

Messengers

“The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed back in 1964. It’s a useful line to carry into Harmonious Discord, the latest exhibition at Whitney Center’s Perspectives gallery in...

Mixed Use

Mixed Use

Drive past the old New Haven Clock Company factory on Hamilton Street, and you may not even notice it. Most of its windows are boarded up. Chain link fencing surrounds...

Mixed Use

Drive past the old New Haven Clock Company factory on Hamilton Street, and you may not even notice it. Most of its windows are boarded up. Chain link fencing surrounds...

Sheet Rock

Sheet Rock

Climb a creaky set of stairs to the second floor and enter a small, bookcase-filled space, where exposed brick walls are a reminder of this building’s history as a foundry...

Sheet Rock

Climb a creaky set of stairs to the second floor and enter a small, bookcase-filled space, where exposed brick walls are a reminder of this building’s history as a foundry...