The city’s community of artists and arts administrators is pretty tight. Once you’ve gotten into it, it seems you can’t kick a pebble on the sidewalk without it careening off the shoe of someone else involved with galleries and showings. On the quieter side of upper State Street, City Gallery embraces that reality, then pulls […]
High Volumes
There isn’t a massive rolling boulder hot on my heels, and I don’t hear a John Williams score swelling in the background. Still, it’s hard not to feel like Indiana Jones as while climbing the four floors of literary and historical treasures housed at the William Reese Company. Ensconced on the quieter side of Temple […]
Third Time’s the Charm
New York City pulsates with noise and energy and entropy, a whirlwind of commotion that—as Carol Shen, owner of two Shen Boutiques in NYC’s Upper East Side, knows firsthand after nearly 30 years in business there—can be exhausting. That’s one reason why Shen decided to look north and east to New Haven, not south to […]
Turning the Page
You might remember a series of commercials from the early 90s featuring adorable young children standing on stage, smiling in the spotlight and exuberantly declaring, “Hooked on Phonics worked for me!” Sound familiar? If you’re reading this easily, you’re proficient with your phonetics, so it literally does sound familiar. The written words effortlessly translate to […]
The Fix Is In
“I think for most people to ask themselves what they can do for other people,” SeeClickFix co-founder and CEO Ben Berkowitz says, “they have to first ask what they want to see for themselves.” Working out of offices fittingly located within New Haven’s emerging Ninth Square, SCF proceeds from the idea that individual citizens have […]
New Kid Off the Block
When I ask a former student at The University of New Haven if he knows about UNH’s Seton Gallery, he shrugs his shoulders and offers a blank stare in return. “Never heard of it.” If new Gallery Director Laura Marsh has her way, that sort of response is going to become a lot rarer. Marsh, […]