China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade at the Lyman Allyn Museum
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John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonWeek of Events
Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield University Art Museum
Bellarmine Hall Galleries May 2 – July 26, 2025 Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio […]
Reimagined Reflection at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
June 12 - September 29 Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, in collaboration with Silvermine Arts Center, will inaugurate its 2025 Season and the reopening of the Mansion after a two-year closure with a new contemporary art exhibition titled Reimagined Reflection. This exhibition will serve as a powerful metaphor for the Mansion’s renewal and transformation, reflecting broader themes of renaissance […]
Adam Viens: Solo Exhibition at Real Artways
Through July 17, 2025 Viens is a mixed-media artist whose work delves into concepts of time, perception, memory, and philosophy. As a physical representation of intellectual and emotional processes, Viens’ work presents a combination of frantic, improvisational technique and slow, interpretive contemplation. The result is admittedly abstract however, frequently edging in and out of vague […]
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 […]
China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade at the Lyman Allyn Museum
China from China: Porcelain and Stories of Early American Trade at the Lyman Allyn Museum
June 14 – September 14, 2025 Since the Colonial era, Americans have treasured Chinese export goods. Silk, porcelain, and tea were highly valued commodities that were controlled by the British and subject to taxation until the end of the American Revolution. In February 1784, just five months after the war’s end, the Empress of China, the […]
John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
May 3 – August 10, 2025 Attuned to idioms and their layers of meaning, artist John Boone (American, born 1951) explores the complexity of language in his word-based paintings. At once playful and serious, Boone engages the viewer with familiar phrases, initiating a conversation and inviting the viewer to imagine what comes next. WHATSWHAT features a […]