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Wee Faerie Village returns in 2024! at Florence Griswold Museum
September 28–November 3, 2024 This year’s Wee Faerie Village theme?! 🧚🏾♂️ Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town! 🧚🏽♀️ Everyone has a history, including the wee faerie folk. Inspired by the living history museums in the human world such as Mystic Seaport, Greenfield Village, Sturbridge Village, and Colonial Williamsburg, Yesterville is just the place for the faeries to experience the joys […]
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Miles Huston: Overshoot at The Aldrich Museum
Miles Huston: Overshoot at The Aldrich Museum
September 4, 2024 to January 6, 2025 Miles Huston's Overshoot series situates archival aerial photographs of small family farms above unfolded vegetable boxes, highlighting the shift in our collective viewing position from an on the ground horizontal plane to a novel geo-spatial view from above. The work suggests that modern ecological policies and contemporary farming, while streamlined […]
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Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination: Bruce Museum
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination: Bruce Museum
October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Inspired by a line from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination explores the artist’s lifelong admiration of the influential naturalist and his own sustained engagement with the natural world. Between his birthplace of […]
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects: Bruce Museum
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects: Bruce Museum
October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Widely acclaimed when it was published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects has come to be regarded as one of the important early monuments of color photography. Sternfeld (American, b. 1944) was one of a small cohort of pioneers, including William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, and Stephen […]
New Work by Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff at Chequer interiors, Essex
New Work by Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff at Chequer interiors, Essex
Please join us to celebrate fall and see new work by Christian Brechneff. Thursday, October 3rd / 3-7pm Chequer Interors 19a Main Street,Essex, CT For more information
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Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights at The Benton
Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights at The Benton
Now through July 28, 2025 Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn. […]
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Louise McCagg: The Artist’s Eye at Lyman Allyn
Louise McCagg: The Artist’s Eye at Lyman Allyn
September 7 – December 15, 2024 Presenting modern and contemporary art from the collection of artist Louise McCagg (American, 1936–2020), this exhibition celebrates friendship and collaboration. The Artist’s Eye showcases McCagg’s own art in conversation with the work of notable artists such as Elaine de Kooning, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Philip Guston, Sol LeWitt, Yoko […]
New England Antiques & Oddities Exhibition – 2024
New England Antiques & Oddities Exhibition – 2024
𝑨 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆’ Purveyors of antiques, oddities, curiosities, and vintage anomalies will gather in Ansonia, Connecticut, for a day-long event to peddle and showcase the obscure. This annual curated event features an array of eccentric items, including vintage furniture, kitsch goods, funeral antiques, apothecary, grave rubbings, bone jewelry, taxidermy, wet specimens, lithographs, religious […]
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Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary at New Britain Museum of American Art
Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary at New Britain Museum of American Art
Sunday, October 06, 2024 — Sunday, February 23, 2025 Vik Muniz (Brazilian-American, born 1961) is distinguished as one of the most innovative and creative artists of our time. Endlessly playful and inventive in his approach, Muniz harnesses a remarkable virtuosity in creating his renowned “photographic delusions.” Working with a dizzying array of unconventional materials—including sugar, tomato […]
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Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection at Fairfield University Art Museum
Bellarmine Hall Galleries September 12 – December 21, 2024 This exhibition samples the richness of European print culture between the late 15th and late 18th centuries through more than fifty woodcuts, engravings, and etchings, including work by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and Canaletto. The exhibition explores themes including the collaborative nature of printmaking, the continuing demand for technical […]
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Allison Bianco: A Bit of Weather at Cade Tompkins Projects: Providence
September 13 - December 31, 2024 We are pleased to present Allison Bianco’s third solo presentation with the gallery. Bianco's work creates a unique visual history of New England and the surrounding areas. Employing printmaking as her main medium, the imagery addresses how the space between water and land can change slowly over time, or […]
Arwe Journey: Twentieth-Century Afri-Caribbean Migration at Housatonic Museum
Arwe Journey: Twentieth-Century Afri-Caribbean Migration at Housatonic Museum
Through February 21, 2025 In this exhibition, the artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells the story of the Afri-Caribbean migration to Europe and North America in the twentieth century through his paintings and sculptures. On view for the first time as a full series, his sixty-one part painting series, Arwe Journey, depicts the history of the Windrush […]
Betsy Eby: Of This Natural World at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich
Betsy Eby: Of This Natural World at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in Greenwich
Through November 2, 2024 Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present Betsy Eby: Of This Natural World, her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Betsy Eby's encaustic paintings are infused with a unique sensibility informed by the artist's Pacific Northwest heritage, her concerns for nature and a lifelong classical piano practice. Using trowels, knives, brushes and heat, […]
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Fashion Through the Decades: Part One: at the Osborne Homestead Museum
Fashion Through the Decades: Part One: at the Osborne Homestead Museum
Thursday, October 03, 2024 to Sunday, October 27, 2024 Experience “Fashion Through the Decades” at the Osborne Homestead Museum during the month of October. For those who have a passion for fashion and are looking for a treasury of history, attend a two-part fashion exhibition at the Osborne Homestead Museum and Kellogg Estate grounds. From […]
Fashion Through the Decades: Part Two: Runway Show at the Osborne Homestead Museum
Fashion Through the Decades: Part Two: Runway Show at the Osborne Homestead Museum
On Sunday, October 20th at 1:00 PM, experience part two of “Fashion Through the Decades” on the runway of the Kellogg Estate grounds in Derby where volunteers will be dressed in chic costumes inspired by the Victorian era onwards. This is a free event. Registration is suggested. For more information and to register, call 203-734-2513 […]
Tiny Pricks Project: Desperate Times, Creative Measures at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Tiny Pricks Project: Desperate Times, Creative Measures at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Through November 24, 2024 The exhibition Tiny Pricks Project: Desperate Times, Creative Measures celebrates the remarkable global public art project initiated and curated by artist Diana Weymar. In 2018, Weymar embarked on a transformative journey by stitching the infamous words of former President Donald Trump, “I am a stable genius,” onto her grandmother’s embroidery. What began as […]
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Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Lyman Allyn
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press at Lyman Allyn
October 13, 2024 – January 5, 2025 There is no singular way to address the conversation of race and representation in contemporary art. Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press presents the unique vision and personal narratives of African American artists from across the country. Channeling the poetics of the human experience, […]
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Mary Janacek: Torn & Transformed at the Mattatuck Museum
Mary Janacek: Torn & Transformed at the Mattatuck Museum
September 1, 2024 – November 9, 2024 Mary Janacek, this year’s winner of the annual MIXMASTER competition, documents the changing world around her through layers of burned, torn, and painted paper. Mary Janacek: Torn & Transformed showcases her evocative artwork that captures specific environmental and cultural moments. From nights during the 2020 Black Lives Matter […]
Interfaith Art Exhibition: Holy City — a Spiritual Pilgrimage in Hartford
Interfaith Art Exhibition: Holy City — a Spiritual Pilgrimage in Hartford
September 19 until November 22, 2024 Please join us for the opening reception of Interfaith Art Exhibition: Holy City — a spiritual pilgrimage! Immerse yourself in the beauty and diversity of Brian Whelan's inspiring art as we come together to appreciate the spiritual essence of our shared humanity. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the power of […]
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Poskas: Father & Son at the Mattatuck Museum
Poskas: Father & Son at the Mattatuck Museum
September 8, 2024 – January 5, 2024 For the first time, Poskas: Father and Son brings together the artwork of Waterbury natives Peter Poskas II and his son Peter Poskas III. Poskas II is known for painting realist views of Connecticut cities and landscapes, exploring conditions of weather and light on his subjects. Dedicated to […]
David LaChapelle: All of a Sudden at The Benton
David LaChapelle: All of a Sudden at The Benton
Now through December 15, 2024 Artist David LaChapelle is one of the most frequently published photographers, best known for his large-scale, hyper-clear photographs of celebrities and for his iconic music videos (for Mariah Carey, Elton John, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, among others). He was born in Hartford in 1963 and grew up in Simsbury and Farmington. He […]
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Selections from the Ernestine Lassaw Collection at Berry Campbell Gallery NYC
Selections from the Ernestine Lassaw Collection at Berry Campbell Gallery NYC
October 17 - November 16, 224 "Middle-class life had no attraction for Ms. Lassaw, her daughter said, adding that her mother made her own clothes and shirts and jackets for her husband. They were part of the vibrant art scene in New York and knew the artists, musicians, poets, museum directors, and collectors of that […]
Buket Savci Beautiful Aliens at Kravets Wehby Gallery NYC
Buket Savci Beautiful Aliens at Kravets Wehby Gallery NYC
October 17 - November 16, 22 Kravets Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce Buket Savci’s solo exhibition, Beautiful Aliens. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 17, 2024, 6-8PM. In this new body of work, Buket’s worlds expand and intertwine. Now that Buket has spent years growing her life in Brooklyn, she […]
John Guzman: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
John Guzman: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
Oct 17 - Dec 17 OPEN 7 days: 2-9 PM John Guzman’s drawings and paintings are a byproduct of experiences and reflections of the artist’s environment, growing up in San Antonio’s Southside. While growing up, John witnessed the psychological and physical deterioration of his peers suffering from various forms of self destructive behaviors. In those […]
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Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Print Exhibition at Fairfield University Art Museum
Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Print Exhibition at Fairfield University Art Museum
Walsh Gallery September 21 - December 21, 2024 Sacred Space, organized by guest curator Juanita Sunday, draws on the rich history of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, founded in Philadelphia in 1972 by artist Allan Edmunds. As of 2023, FUAM is home to a Brandywine “satellite collection,” joining other institutions including Harvard Art Museums, RISD Museum, […]
Diasporican: From Dispersion to Integration at Eastern Connecticut State
Diasporican: From Dispersion to Integration at Eastern Connecticut State
October 15, 2024 - February 14, 2025 Opening Reception: October 24, 2024 6-7 p.m. social gathering; 7:15 – 8 p.m. exhibition premiere. Diasporican: From Dispersion to Integration is a comprehensive exhibition that delves into the diverse identities within Puerto Rican diaspora and document experiences within this community. Featuring the works of four Puerto Rican artists, the […]
Art Encounters: The Residue of Memory at The Benton
Art Encounters: The Residue of Memory at The Benton
Join Benton educators for an interactive two-part workshop exploring works in diverse media across the Museum’s exhibitions. The Residue of Memory is an interactive two-part workshop exploring the ways past events leave their mark in art. Learn more about art objects that forge a tangible link to the past through close looking and discussion of […]
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Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo: Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of The West at Real Artways
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo: Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of The West at Real Artways
Aug 15 - Nov 18, 2024 Hours: Sunday-Saturday 2 – 9PM Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo (b. 1999 in Burlingame, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist creating liberatory visions. Both historical liberation struggles and current resistance movements are central to how Adeyemo constructs the scenes in her work. At the intersection of assemblage, painting, and sculpture, Adeyemo pulls from the […]
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Art: Justin Caguiat: Triple Solitaire at Wesleyan
Art: Justin Caguiat: Triple Solitaire at Wesleyan
Tuesday, September 17 – Sunday, December 8, 2024 Tuesday through Sunday, Noon to 5pm Opening Reception: Sept. 17- 4:30pm to 6pm Catch the first institutional solo exhibition by artist Justin Caguiat, whose Triple Solitaire immerses the viewer in a theater of perception combining lush abstract paintings and soundworks. In Justin Caguiat’s hands, painting is a slow cinema. His work […]
Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Exhibit: “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at Weston History & Culture Center
Through March 2, 2025. Open Sundays and Thursdays from 1pm - 4pm. The yard of one of Weston’s oldest homes, the Peter Thorp House, reveals its past lives in the new exhibit, “Weston…What Lies Beneath” at the Weston History & Culture Center. What started out as a weekend garden project turned into a discovery of […]
Meticulous: Methodical Approaches to Making Art at WCSU Gallery
Meticulous: Methodical Approaches to Making Art at WCSU Gallery
On view Oct 24–Dec 8, 2024 Opening Reception: Thurs, Oct 24, 2024 6:00–8:00 pm This exhibition presents artists working in a variety of media who employ specific systematic procedures, processes, and techniques to create art. Artists’ use of particular parameters within which to create art is often associated with conceptual art but can also be […]
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Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Through December 15, 2024 Entre Mundos: Art of Abiayala brings together works by artists with ties to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Ranging in time from antiquity to the present, the artists represented share personal or ancestral connections with these lands, offering glimpses into their regional artistic practices. Taking the form of textiles, furniture, […]
Wee Faerie Village returns in 2024! at Florence Griswold Museum
September 28–November 3, 2024 This year’s Wee Faerie Village theme?! 🧚🏾♂️ Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town! 🧚🏽♀️ Everyone has a history, including the wee faerie folk. Inspired by the living history museums in the human world such as Mystic Seaport, Greenfield Village, Sturbridge Village, and Colonial Williamsburg, Yesterville is just the place for the faeries to experience the joys […]
With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms
With Every Fiber | Long-Term Exhibition at Grace Farms
With Every Fiber is a long-term exhibition aiming to inspire understanding and care about the materials that make up the built world around us. In 2020, Grace Farms launched Design for Freedom, a collaborative global movement to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain, create true market transformation, and build a more equitable future. […]
ART IN WATERFORD: Past+Present+Future at the O’Neill Theater
ART IN WATERFORD: Past+Present+Future at the O’Neill Theater
Saturday, Oct. 26, and Sunday November 17th, 2024 For a modest $5 contribution, receive the AIW 2024 program booklet and learn about famous pianists/composers from Waterford's Past - Marian Nevins MacDowell and Edward A. MacDowell - and this year's talented local Present/Future artists! (Pictured painting: "Lunch at Cafe Flo" by Len Swec.) For more information
Natalie Beall & Scott Vander Veen at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn
Natalie Beall & Scott Vander Veen at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn
Oct 26th - Dec 15th, 2024 Round Peg, Square Hole Two Person Show Natalie Beall Scott Vander Veen For more information Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1pm–6pm
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A Garden of Promise and Dissent at The Aldrich Museum
A Garden of Promise and Dissent at The Aldrich Museum
October 28, 2024 to March 16, 2025 October 28, 2024 to March 16, 2025 (Galleries) November 17, 2024 to November 2025 (Grounds) A group exhibition of twenty-one artists explores the animation of the “garden” as a site of private expression (poetics) and public action (praxis). Gardens offer solace, community, nutrition, and well-being; they provide safe […]
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Exhibition: Danielle Mailer at Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield
Exhibition: Danielle Mailer at Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield
October 30 - December 20 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 7 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM "Somewhere nestled between Miriam Shapiro, and Niki De Saint Phalle, Mailer creates her own interpretation of the patterned silhouette. Once a still-life painter, in the last two decades she has been more interested in stepping outside this tradition and capturing for […]
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Deck the Walls and Bon Appetit at The Lyme Art Association
Deck the Walls and Bon Appetit at The Lyme Art Association
November 1 - December 31 Deck the Walls, Lyme Art Association’s most festive exhibition goes on view November 1. Visitors will discover a beautiful array of art to lift the spirits in various themes, sizes and mediums in this delightful show juried by Annie Wildey. Deck the Walls returns each year during the holidays, just in time for gift giving. Running concurrently […]
Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum
Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum
New York, NY, October 18, 2024 — Shifting Landscapes, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on November 1, explores how evolving political, ecological, and social issues motivate artists and their representations of the world around them. While the traditional art historical landscape genre has long been associated with picturesque vistas and documentary accounts of […]
What’s Not to Love? at Mystic Museum
What’s Not to Love? at Mystic Museum
November 1 through December 15, 2024 2024 is the year of “Pathways” at Mystic Museum of Art (MMoA), exploring the innovative means by which artists have achieved creative careers, when no existing path or doorway was open to them. The final exhibition of this curatorial year, What’s Not to Love? focuses on four important members of […]