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Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #610 at Yale University Art Gallery

Drawing Attention

It’s geometry class all over again: “A white broken line is drawn from a point equidistant to the start of the not straight yellow line, the midpoint of the blue...

Drawing Attention

It’s geometry class all over again: “A white broken line is drawn from a point equidistant to the start of the not straight yellow line, the midpoint of the blue...

Donald Hall plaque at Spring Glen Elementary School

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...

Swinging for the Fences

Swinging for the Fences

When Neighborhood Music School’s Premier Jazz Ensemble opened for up-and-coming jazz pianist Christian Sands at the 2016 New Haven Jazz Festival, the group’s tenor saxophonist, Ryan Griffiths, was starstruck. Sands...

Swinging for the Fences

When Neighborhood Music School’s Premier Jazz Ensemble opened for up-and-coming jazz pianist Christian Sands at the 2016 New Haven Jazz Festival, the group’s tenor saxophonist, Ryan Griffiths, was starstruck. Sands...

Kehler Liddell Gallery

Pretty Pleas

I sit in front of Hong Hong’s 8×12-foot work on paper with Shakespeare on my mind. The stated theme of the new juried exhibition at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery is...

Pretty Pleas

I sit in front of Hong Hong’s 8×12-foot work on paper with Shakespeare on my mind. The stated theme of the new juried exhibition at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery is...

The cast of KISS by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

Open to Interpretation

From the first moments of Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Kiss, there are clues that boundaries will be broken. Even before the action begins, the program informs us that the...

Open to Interpretation

From the first moments of Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Kiss, there are clues that boundaries will be broken. Even before the action begins, the program informs us that the...

Connected Four

Connected Four

As a little girl, Mae Gibson Brown used to open a compartment at the top of her mother’s chifforobe just so she could peek at the Sunday hat stored there....

Connected Four

As a little girl, Mae Gibson Brown used to open a compartment at the top of her mother’s chifforobe just so she could peek at the Sunday hat stored there....