Even in a town with no shortage of quirky perk, GATHER, established in late 2021 at the corner of State and Hine (map), hooks you with its pleasant, lighthearted weirdness and makes you rethink what a coffeeshop …
Secret Message

Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s child portrait series “The Beautyful Ones,” a portion of which you can view starting tomorrow at the Yale Center for British Art, speaks loudly and quietly, in multiple languages and at untold depths.
Derived from photographs, …
Art’s Desire

Heather Gendron, director of Yale’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, proves low-key isn’t the same as low-energy. She’s also the dynamo behind Heather Hope Atelier…
Axed and Answered

“This is my effort to broker global peace between jocks and nerds,” jokes Akari Roudebush, guest relations coordinator at Pine & Iron Axe Throwing. She’s talking about Trivi-Axe, a…
Plein Language

“Everything just keeps changing,” Bill Meddick says as he presses his brush to his palette. …
Open Wide

A photo essay.
The two-week peak of this year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas began last Saturday.
Here’s what we saw on opening day. …