Bad news: Criterion Cinemas, New Haven’s only commercial movie theater, is shutting down. Good news: The city’s galleries are picking up the slack. (more…)
Unreal
“The Art Institute was yesterday afternoon the scene of a delicate and interesting experiment, upon the result of which a personal reputation may be said to have rested and certainly upon which the merit of a work of presumptive art did depend (more…)
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 (more…)
Making Arrangements
After working in software design and then as a math teacher, long-time New Haven resident Beth Klingher took an unusual but, on reflection, not unrelated career turn (more…)
Body Work
With its creaky stairs and parquet floors, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is a perfect venue for the work of Gary Sczerbaniewicz (more…)
Piecing Together
Two mosaic peacocks perch on a table at Mediterranean restaurant Rawa. The image is exquisite in the manner of peacocks, but particularly in the manner of mosaics. Each detail, each transition of color, in the life-sized tail feathers is rendered with a piece of stone no larger than a thumbnail, shaped and positioned by hand. […]
Star Treatment
A photo essay. To view all 25 photos (and at a better quality), check out the email edition of this story. Softly, amid distant stars, and boldly, amid giant books, is (more…)
Pause Effect
Even before the rise of the internet and social media, “the speed with which the world went by us was not, I think, particularly considerate of pausing,” Stephen Kobasa says. (more…)
Uncorked
A small scroll tucked into the mouth of a tall, slender bottle tips the viewer off to the title of Brian Flinn’s digital collage series, Message in a Bottle. (more…)
Lucid Dreams
Entering Christian Curiel: Between Reveries, NXTHVN’s first solo exhibition, is a bit like walking into a very quiet party. Curiel’s colorful, cryptic portraits seem (more…)