Dolls occupy a huge variety of spaces within the human psyche. Sometimes they’re playthings or sources of comfort. Other times they’re deeply creepy, a fact innumerable horror stories have exploited. Used as totems and (more…)
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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 (more…)
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 of specialty oil paints are meant for experts only, right? And thick, pristinely white sketchbook paper is much too lovely to be marred by untrained […]
That’s the Spirit!
Perched at the mouth of State Street, the Knights of Columbus Museum has acted as a gallery and archive of Catholic history and culture for over 30 years. The museum’s stunning concrete-and-glass home is airy, well-lit and spacious. A variety of galleries holding mostly permanent collections (including the Father Michael J. McGivney Gallery and Reliquary, […]
A Kick in the Paints
I met with artist and instructor Kwadwo Adae at his Adae Fine Art Academy on Chapel Street during one of the hottest days of the year. The urban asphalt baked in the sun. The air was thick and languorous. Everyone who had dared to venture outside seemed miserable. The heat rose to Adae’s second-floor walk-up […]
The Big Idea
For the finale of his one-man show L’homme Cirque, performed several times daily inside a small circus tent erected on New Haven Green, David Dimitri shoots himself out of a cannon onto a hanging rope, climbs the rope to a highwire, then walks along the wire through a hole in the top of the tent […]
Showtime
The face of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a place. There’s also a phrase or a name or a concept with which folks attempt to shorthand Arts & Ideas if they want to. This year’s official theme/slogan is “Dreaming New Worlds.” The kick-off act is a free concert by New Orleans R&B […]
Pictures of Health
Dealing with cancer is an undoubtedly difficult task, one in which a positive support system of friends, family and a trusted medical team is critical. For patients at Yale-New Haven’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, there’s fine art to ease their troubles as well. Smilow houses what its website says is the third-largest permanent art collection in […]
Masters of Fine Art
Oh, to live in New Haven when art is in bloom! For weeks, tourists have been flocking to see the new and improved Yale University Art Gallery. One of the first things they learn? They should have planned a longer trip. There is way more beauty, creativity and wonderment than any person can absorb in […]
Crèche-ing Through the Snow
Brooklyn-based garage rock band The Fleshtones have a song on their Christmas-spirited album Stocking Stuffers called “Canadian Christmas”: I remember a time not so long ago Pushing my way through the ice and snow Feeling at one with the frozen tundra Gazing at the beauty of the winter wonderland I wonder if Christmas still lives […]
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