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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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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 […]
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Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA
Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025 “Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of the self as fluid and open to ongoing transformations. Vital Signs includes over 100 works by artists who question what it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
6 events,
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 […]
A Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield & Mike Glier at Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo
Nov 8, 2024 - Mar 2, 2025 This exhibition explores how both American artists infuse observational painting with abstraction to convey a multi-sensory experience of nature. Burchfield died 14 years after Glier was born, so they are generations apart, but both use an abstract visual language, derived from plein air observation, to describe an intimate […]
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 […]
Landscapes by Keith Michael Fiels at the Essex Library
Landscapes by Keith Michael Fiels at the Essex Library
November 1 to December 14, 2024 The Essex Library will host a new exhibit in the Buel Room from November 1 to December 14 featuring artwork by Keith Michael Fiels. Fiels is the former executive director of the American Library Association. He has been painting for most of his life, receiving art training at the […]
Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape at the Bruce Museum
Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape at the Bruce Museum
November 9, 2024-ongoing Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word ‘impression’ as applied to art . . . really means the only truth because it means going straight to nature for inspiration and not allowing tradition to dictate your […]
3 events,
City Lights: Bridgeport Art Trail
November 7-10, 2024 City-wide Arts Bash THURSDAY BAT NIGHT KICKOFF “It’s like an artists’ home company party”, mingle and meander. The BAT city-wide celebration starts downtown at four arts venues! View art and socialize with the creative community. See new art and popular favorites. Enjoy live music and reception fare. For more information City Lights […]
Exquisite Miniatures by Wes and Rachelle Siegrist at Lyman Allyn
Exquisite Miniatures by Wes and Rachelle Siegrist at Lyman Allyn
November 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025 Wes and Rachelle Siegrist are an American husband and wife team who mesmerize viewers with miniature paintings so exquisitely crafted that they are often mistaken for tiny photographs. Their tiny treasures, as collectors often refer to them, typically measure less than 9 square inches and appear even more […]
Buttons On! : Beau McCall at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Buttons On! : Beau McCall at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Through February 2, 2025 Buttons On! marks the first-ever retrospective for creative artist, Beau McCall. Proclaimed by American Craft magazine as “The Button Man,” McCall creates wearable and visual art by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. Buttons On! showcases pieces from McCall’s nearly forty-year career, the debut of several new works, and select archival material. Organized […]
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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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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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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, […]
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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 […]
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at Florence Griswold Museum
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape at Florence Griswold Museum
NOVEMBER 16, 2024–FEBRUARY 9, 2025 Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker […]
Naqutiwowok/Continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create at Florence Griswold Museum
Naqutiwowok/Continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create at Florence Griswold Museum
NOVEMBER 16, 2024–FEBRUARY 9, 2025 People from Connecticut’s five recognized tribes are collaborating to curate an exhibition that will be on view at the FloGris Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape, curated by Dr. Scott Manning Stevens. The exhibition project emerged from the FloGris Museum’s interest elaborating upon Native Prospects with the perspectives […]
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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
Martha Diamond: Deep Time at The Aldrich Museum
Martha Diamond: Deep Time at The Aldrich Museum
November 17, 2024 to May 18, 2025 Martha Diamond is among the most perceptive painters of the last five decades. Her work’s formal concision and painterly bravado reflect an inner dialogue with generations of abstract artists, and the results are exceptional: an inimitable handling of gesture and space that reimagines the landscape tradition while deftly […]
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Landscapes by Keith Michael Fiels at the Essex Library
Landscapes by Keith Michael Fiels at the Essex Library
November 1 to December 14, 2024 The Essex Library will host a new exhibit in the Buel Room from November 1 to December 14 featuring artwork by Keith Michael Fiels. Fiels is the former executive director of the American Library Association. He has been painting for most of his life, receiving art training at the […]
2 events,
Nanette Carter at Berry Campbell Gallery NYC
Nanette Carter at Berry Campbell Gallery NYC
21 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Working with intangible ideas around contemporary issues has been my motivating force. Reading the news about different developments taking place around the world has turned me into a chronicler of our time. How to present these ideas in an abstract vocabulary of form, line, color and texture is the quest. […]
Panel: Representing the Holocaust: Prussian Blue at the Homer Babbidge Library in Storrs
Panel: Representing the Holocaust: Prussian Blue at the Homer Babbidge Library in Storrs
Join us for a panel that delves into the power of art in the face of genocide, focusing on Yishai Jusidman’s Prussian Blue exhibition currently on display at UConn, and its use of visual imagery to process Holocaust memory and ethical reflection. In the face of genocide, what can art do? How might artworks use aesthetic […]
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The Norwalk Art Space Community Open House
The Norwalk Art Space Community Open House
Connect with your community and celebrate creativity at The Norwalk Art Space Community Open House, November 22nd. See all of the beautiful artwork and delight in the musical performances from the Fall semester students who attended FREE art and music classes. Take in all that this wonderful Art Space and our Community Partners bring to […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
2 events,
Divine Geometry Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
November 27, 2024–April 13, 2025 Divine Geometry is a multimedia exhibition that explores the Islamic arts holdings within the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s expansive collections. Through floral motifs, geometric patterns, calligraphy, and other means, the exhibition presents the artistic language of Islamic art through an assemblage of objects rarely seen by the public. The Wadsworth […]
Divine Geometry Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
November 27, 2024–April 13, 2025 Divine Geometry is a multimedia exhibition that explores the Islamic arts holdings within the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s expansive collections. Through floral motifs, geometric patterns, calligraphy, and other means, the exhibition presents the artistic language of Islamic art through an assemblage of objects rarely seen by the public. The Wadsworth […]
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Myriam Dion Timelines at Arsenal Contemporary Art NYC
Myriam Dion Timelines at Arsenal Contemporary Art NYC
Nov 1 - Dec 14, 2024 Arsenal Contemporary New York is pleased to present Timelines, a solo exhibition featuring new works by artist Myriam Dion in collaboration with Blouin Division Gallery, Montreal. The exhibition will run from Friday, November 1, through Saturday, December 14, 2024. Myriam Dion creates breathtakingly intricate works of cut and hand-colored […]
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 […]
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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 […]