Friday, February 26, 2016
Spring training is underway and another baseball season is upon us. There's no better time to revisit a historical event that happened in Hartford in 1918: Babe Ruth visiting for an exhibiti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:42PMThursday, February 25, 2016
The new exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is called "The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection." With a title like that, visitors know going in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:58PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Dada artists of the early 20th century believed that everything in the world was art, and nothing in the world was art. Anarchy was the key. If nothing made sense, that was OK. In theory, on…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:56PMFriday, February 12, 2016
Often when people visit museums, they leave wishing they could see a certain piece of art every day. Yale University's art museums are making that easier. Want Van Gogh's "The Night Cafe," o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:07PMFriday, February 5, 2016
When a person sees a painting on a wall, they may react to it emotionally, but it's still a static object, unchanging. For the creator, however, a painting is dynamic, an ever-changing serie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, January 25, 2016
Ivan Backer is 86 years old and has spent his life working to benefit the poor, the disenfranchised, people whose voices were not heard. His entire adulthood, every time Backer needed to act…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:24PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Bill Eppridge was sent on a photo assignment for Life Magazine on Feb. 7, 1964. Based on how his editor described the job, Eppridge had no way of knowing it would be one of the most importan…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:28PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Travis Durden is a French artist who is fond of American movies. Travis Durden isn't his real name, which he doesn't reveal. He took the pseudonym from Robert De Niro's role in "Taxi Driver,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:52AMMonday, December 28, 2015
Photographic self-portraitist Kate O'Donovan Cook, who has an exhibit on the walls now at New Britain Museum of American Art, was shaped artistically by two very different forces: gender and…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
In 1997, Lorna Little of West Hartford was preparing to attend a family reunion in Jamaica. She needed a passport. She wrote to records officials in England, where she was born, for a birth …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, December 17, 2015
Thomas J. Loughman, associate director of program and planning at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has been appointed the 11th director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Bridgeport attorney Michael Koskoff co-wrote a screenplay about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and sold the script to producer Paula Wagner. Wagner, who has produced several bl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:58PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Fans nationwide are thrilled about "Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens," which opens Thursday, Dec. 17. In some cities, people already are camping outside theaters. Jared Brodeur i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, December 3, 2015
Lyme Street in Old Lyme is an art lovers' dream, a stretch of road noteworthy for its many high-quality exhibition spaces. Right now, five exhibits can be viewed at five different places, ea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
George Washington wasn't known as a poet, but a few times he let his muse carry him away. When he was a teenager, he wrote to a young lady: "From your bright sparkling Eyes, I was undone; Ra…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:14PMBill Griffith is a cartoon-world superstar, as the creator of the loopy comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead." With his latest project, however, the comic artist isn't going for laughs but for per…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, November 19, 2015
Movie theaters have a long history of offering amenities to lure people out of their homes and into the cinemas. In the 1920s, air conditioning made its debut in theaters. In the '30s, theat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:34AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Paint gets a bum rap in many corners of the contemporary art world. An unprecedentedly wide variety of artistic platforms are available in the 21st century. So the art form dating back to pr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Hundreds of artists in Hartford will throw open the doors of their studios to show and sell their work in the annual citywide art spectacular Open Studio Hartford on Saturday and Sunday, Nov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:21PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Shonali Bose wrote and directed "Margarita, With a Straw" and the movie's lead character, Laila, is essentially Bose herself at age 19: ambitious, assertive, multinational, bisexual. It didn…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, October 29, 2015
EBK Gallery [small works] opened last year in a tiny art space on Pearl Street in Hartford for just that purpose, to show small pieces. The little artworks lured passersby who were walking d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:21AMYears ago, Ta'u Pupu'a thought his future was in the National Football League. In 1995, he was drafted right out of Weaver (Utah) State University by Bill Belichick to be a defensive end for…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:58AMSunday, October 25, 2015
NEW CANAAN — Among the famous and aesthetically distinctive buildings in New Canaan, which is best known for Glass House by architect Philip Johnson, another stunning glass-walled structur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:02AMThursday, October 22, 2015
It's time to do the Time Warp again. Halloween season is the perfect time to see "The Rocky Horror Show" or "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Several Connecticut venues are coming through wit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
For years, the New Britain Museum of American Art has been called "a little gem" by Connecticut's art aficionados. It's time for a new nickname. The first museum in the nation dedicated sole…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Andy Warhol is famous for his fondness for drag queens, but by 1974 his interest had faded. That year, he was approached by an Italian art dealer who wanted to commission a series of works o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:24PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
In the 1989 film "Back to the Future Part II," Marty McFly and Doc Brown landed their time-traveling DeLorean on Oct. 21, 2015, touching down in a world full of flying cars, hovering skatebo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMThursday, October 8, 2015
One of the most interesting scenic views in the state can be found looking southward from atop Stone Mountain in Woodbury. Never heard of Stone Mountain? That may be because it's not exactly…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Journalist-author Fareed Zakaria will be in Hartford on Saturday, Oct. 3, sharing a Connecticut Forum stage with Joi Ito, the director of MIT's Media Lab, and Virginia Heffernan, a writer an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:29PMMonday, September 21, 2015
Nobody needs a mall or the Internet to go holiday or gift shopping. Almost every weekend through Dec. 6, artists throughout the state will open the doors of their studios and welcome the pub…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:50AMFriday, September 18, 2015
On Saturday, Sept. 26. consumer advocate-politician Ralph Nader is celebrating the opening of a museum he founded in his hometown of Winsted. The American Museum of Tort Law will focus on th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55PM 
