ON FIRE: Energy, Climate, Infrastructure at MoCA Westport
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ON FIRE: Energy, Climate, Infrastructure at MoCA Westport
January 9 – March 2, 2025 Opening Reception – January 9, 6-8 PM. Click here to RSVP. Heat waves, wildfires, floods, increasingly powerful storms, natural and social disasters…. As we deal with the effects of climate change, globally and locally, we face the urgent question of balancing our needs for energy and infrastructure with sustainability and […]
20th Anniversary of The Gates: Central Park & The Shed in NYC
Wednesday, February 12 – Sunday, March 23, 2025 This February and March, residents and visitors of the New York region will have two unique opportunities to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Gates, the monumental public art installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that transformed the city in 2005. In Central Park, the free arts and culture […]
Namdoo Kim—Underland: A Unique Lens on the Hidden Realities at Wesleyan
Namdoo Kim—Underland: A Unique Lens on the Hidden Realities at Wesleyan
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 through Saturday, May 24, 2025 Namdoo Kim works within the tension of ceramics and glass to explore the dynamics of societal demands. While growing up in South Korea, the artist witnessed the consequential effects on families of an accelerated Western consumerism shaped by the country’s emerging economy. Kim explores these concerns about […]
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist: Bruce Museum
Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist: Bruce Museum
February 6, 2025—April 27, 2025 The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States. After earning a degree in fine art at West Virginia University, Blanche Lazzell pursued an education that was increasingly international and avant-garde. In 1907, […]
Bringing Natalie Home: An Exhibit of Natalie Van Vleck’s Art at Flanders Nature Center
Bringing Natalie Home: An Exhibit of Natalie Van Vleck’s Art at Flanders Nature Center
After many years of being kept in storage, Natalie’s art will be on display in the newly renovated Van Vleck Gallery! In 1926, Natalie urged her parents to buy the saltbox house, which dates back to 1786 along with the accompanying farm land. She then built her art studio next door in 1928. This is […]
Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
December 21, 2024 - August 31, 2025 Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene brings together contemporary artworks created from previously existent materials to reimagine craft in the shadow of the twenty-first century. Utilizing second-hand discards or industrially manufactured materials, artists transform refuse into highly crafted forms. Exhibited objects speak to the unique and impending […]
Thuan Vu: Kintsugi in the New World at Lyman Allyn
Thuan Vu: Kintsugi in the New World at Lyman Allyn
January 18 – March 30, 2025 Celebrate the opening of Thuan Vu: Kintsugi in the New World with an evening reception at the Museum. FRI, JAN 24 | 5-7PM Kintsugi in the New World is a dynamic new series of paintings from Thuan Vu, an artist and professor from New Haven, CT. Drawn from Vu’s Kintsugi flower series, […]