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Arts | January 8, 2010

Object Lesson #45

by Staff | January 8, 2010 11:52 AM | Permalink

Anna Daegele, Landscape, 2009, mixed media

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Arts | December 29, 2009

Object Lesson #44

by Stephen Kobasa | December 29, 2009 11:59 AM | Permalink

parking lot booth
ca. 1935

Kirk's Parking
210 Crown Street, between College and Temple

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Arts | December 21, 2009

Object Lesson #43

by Stephen Kobasa | December 21, 2009 5:04 PM | Permalink

Flying Pig,

fabric, metal frame
493 Woodward Avenue

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Arts | December 21, 2009

Object Lesson #42

by Stephen Kobasa | December 21, 2009 4:55 PM | Permalink

Josef Albers, Let There Be Light, 1973

Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
100 Webster Street

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Arts | December 20, 2009

"Sweethearts" Were The Muse

by Allan Appel | December 20, 2009 1:28 PM | Permalink

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm were the country's first all-girl integrated swing band. In the 1940s they toured America, including the South, breaking musical and race relations grounds wherever they went.

Last week they arrived in New Haven through the poetry of Marilyn Nelson. The state's former poet laureate read from her new book of that title to two dozen poetry lovers at the Institute Library.

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Arts | December 18, 2009

Art Brings Botswana New Haven

by Riquee Blackman Jarmon | December 18, 2009 8:27 AM | Permalink

Rebecca Lowry paints on wood with oils and acrylics. The people who encounter her artwork see the people of Botswana come to life through those basic supplies.

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Arts | December 16, 2009

Object Lesson #41

by Stephen Kobasa | December 16, 2009 5:34 PM | Permalink

Silas Finch, Capture, 2009, found wood

near the Canoe Launch, Mill River
East Rock Park,
north side of the bridge,
Orange Street between Mitchell Drive and English Drive

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Arts | December 15, 2009

"Speak, I Will Listen"

by Staff | December 15, 2009 1:07 PM | Permalink

By Bennett Lovett-Graff

Have You Seen Us?
At Long Wharf Theatre
November 24-December 20

Have You Seen Us? is what one may call an "incident play," a story driven by a singular event. As its protagonist Henry Parsons (Sam Waterston) frames it in his prologue to this one hour-and-twenty minute meditation on racism, displacement, and addiction, sometimes it takes the nudging of one domino in the supposedly well-designed life to bring the rest falling down.

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Arts | December 15, 2009

Altman On "The Actor's Life"

by Staff | December 15, 2009 12:44 PM | Permalink

by David Sepulveda

It's not every day you run into people on the streets of New Haven that can say they have just finished filming a movie with Meryl Streep, or George Clooney - but Bruce Altman can.

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Arts | December 15, 2009

What Goes La Ronde

by Allan Appel | December 15, 2009 9:27 AM | Permalink

When the actress takes off her corset and invites the poet to kneel down beside her to pray, he expresses his devotion by grabbing her in his arms. It turns out all right. She wasn't praying to God anyway, but for the poet to seduce her, which he promptly does.

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Arts | December 14, 2009

Out of House and Home

by Allan Appel | December 14, 2009 10:55 AM | Permalink

Before images of Baby Jesus and family in their rustic shelter begin to overwhelm with sweetness and light, an exhibition in town seeks to remind us that the holy family would also have qualified under the current and far less joyful federal homelessness guidelines.

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Arts | December 14, 2009

The Scene Of A New "Happening"

by Thomas MacMillan | December 14, 2009 10:51 AM | Permalink

David A. Brensilver

The Yale Repertory Theatre is giving audiences a unique opportunity to get inside Andy Warhol's head with the world premiere production of Pop!, a musical by Maggie-Kate Coleman (seated in photo) and Anna K. Jacobs (at left in photo).

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Arts | December 11, 2009

Welcome to Shubert Square!

by Allan Appel | December 11, 2009 8:31 AM | Permalink

Most divas approaching a century don't announce their age. The Shubert theater, on the other hand, is celebrating its 95th year this weekend and doing it with brio.

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Arts | December 10, 2009

Object Lesson #40

by Stephen Kobasa | December 10, 2009 6:52 PM | Permalink

anonymous Italian,

Church of St. Michael
29 Wooster Place

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Arts | December 7, 2009

Object Lesson #39

by Stephen Kobasa | December 7, 2009 5:22 PM | Permalink

Teapots, glazed ceramic

Clay Studio New Haven
89 Howe Street

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Arts | December 7, 2009

Art Without Ego Celebrated

by Allan Appel | December 7, 2009 8:02 AM | Permalink

If you've ever noticed pictures of municipal views by contemporary artists along the stairways of the main library, or seen a movie about New Haven's great age of jazz, thank Frank Mitchell.

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Arts | December 7, 2009

Pixels May Help Rescue A Synagogue

by Allan Appel | December 7, 2009 7:56 AM | Permalink

Herb Croog actually remembers playing among the stone and brick as the foundations of the Orchard Street Shul were laid in 1924. The 95-year old says that this last survivor of more than a dozen Jewish houses of worship lost to urban renewal may yet come back again.

If so, artists using the newest media may just may be leading the way.

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Arts | December 6, 2009

Apocalypse Wow!

by Allan Appel | December 6, 2009 2:35 PM | Permalink

On the Green, the annual tree-lighting hailed the Christmas spirit and peace on earth,. Blocks away, the End of the Earth was also getting its due in New Haven.

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Arts | December 1, 2009

Object Lesson #38

by Stephen Kobasa | December 1, 2009 9:08 AM | Permalink

Jemma Williams and John Bent, "Beach Front Property," installation

dismantled November 22
Hello My Name Is Gallery
838 Whalley Avenue

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Arts | November 30, 2009

Object Lesson #37

by Stephen Kobasa | November 30, 2009 9:06 AM | Permalink

Interior stairwell
Paul Rudolph Hall, (formerly Art & Architecture Building), 1963

180 York Street

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