Arts

An Arts Capital Celebrates -- With Capital

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:48:00 -0500

Amy Barry was so moved by the music and the mission of Tina Lee Hadari's Music Haven that right after cookies and coffee she embraced her and offered the support of her small family foundation. Full story here.

Aerosol Artist Channels His Inner Bird

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:11:00 -0500

A new downtown show poses the question: How is a pigeon like a graffiti artist? Full story here.

Big Show at the Small Space

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:45:00 -0500

The titles of these two mixed media works by Yosiell Lorenzo are "I am the Worm Keeper" and "Wormed Down Skatedeck." Do we sense a pattern? Full story here.

Rare Renaissance Prints at Yale

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:01:43 -0500

Large scale prints from the Renaissance to 1630 will be on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through November 30th. Don't miss a triumphal arch by Nuremberg master Albrecht Durer. It's so large the curators have mounted it on the floor!
Click here for the university's press release.

Vote Early & Often -- For Public Art

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:21:00 -0500

Election season is underway: Should the stage on the Green be transformed into a huge nomadic tent this winter , covered in colorful ribbons? Should three bell towers arise on the Green? Or should 9,000 lights on nine cubes evoke the Nine Squares? Click here for the full story.

Immigrants Celebrated in Fair Haven Cantata

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:00:00 -0500

"It made us feel proud, it was beautifully performed, and it was true." Such was the dream review that Luz Santiago (left), Delia Vega and 15 other residents of Casa Otonal gave to "Migrants," a bilingual cantata celebrating the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in America.

A Picking Virtuoso Returns

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:10:00 -0500

David Bromberg doesn't know what songs he'll play when he takes the Little Theater stage Sunday. But if he plays Mr. Bojangles, you can predict what notes he'll play -- including the solo.

Leave Starry-Eyed Glasses At Home

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:48:00 -0500

The hottest ticket in town is free, with one non-monetary cost: It asks you to ditch romantic notions about the "madman" who painted Starry Night. Click here, and on play arrow, for the full story.

Dear, Dirty Dublin

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:01:00 -0500

Early in The Pride of Parnell Street -- a gorgeous new monologue-play by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry brought to New Haven courtesy of the Festival of Arts & Ideas -- a lower-class Dublin woman tells about those heady days during the 1990 World Cup. Ireland's national soccer team strung together a series of unexpected victories and came as close to the championship as they've ever come. Dublin went mad, "happy mayhem" ruled, and this depressed, terror-wracked, still-developing nation felt something rare. Janet -- that's this storyteller's name -- doesn't try to shoehorn this oceanic feeling into one word, but surely the nearest word would be "pride."

New Haven's Summer of Photography

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:30:00 -0500

That's neither a natural tunnel in the Southwest nor a new museum in Montivideo but a gelatin silver print called "Open Dictionary" by the contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell. Full story here.

Sacred Dance on the Solstice

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:58:00 -0500

“Interplay in the Spirit” was the name of a sacred dance performed in the Edgerton Park Community Garden as dusk fell on the day of the Summer Solstice. It was part of the “613 Radical Acts of Prayer” that are being performed by the Liz Lerman Company throughout the Arts & Ideas festival.

Revisiting Sophocles

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:40:00 -0500

The typical praise for a production of a classical play like Sophocles's Antigone is that it makes the play seem "shockingly up-to-date." That usually means the director and actors have successfully paddled out into the strongest currents of contemporary culture -- usually political culture -- without capsizing. For better or worse, The Burial at Thebes, a new version of Antigone adapted by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and brought to New Haven's Festival of Arts & Ideas by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company (UK), seems to be looking for this sort of accolade.

Call It A Hip-"Hopera"

Fri, 30 May 2008 07:53:00 -0500

Full story here.

Jones & Company: Actor Hosts Groove, Give and Get Benefit

Wed, 28 May 2008 22:05:00 -0500

By Tony Phillips
The "Groove, Give and Get" benefit for The Senator Chuck Allen III Scholarship Fund takes place on June 11 from 6pm-8pm at NHarlem, 114 West 116th Street. Allen, a New Haven political legend, passed away in March. Previous Independent stories can be found here and here.

ARTE Comes To Immigrant Artist 's Rescue

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:43:00 -0500

In 2005 young artist Andres Madariaga was accepted at the prestigious Cooper Union in New York to pursue his dream, a visual arts career. When his immigration status foreclosed on possibilities for applying for the scholarships necessary to attend, his creativity shut down. It might have stayed that way, with serious consequences, had not his teachers and ARTE invited him to show. Click here for the full story.