MUSEUM
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldApril 11 – August 16, 2025 This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in […]
John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonMay 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 […]
Gallery Talk • John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonMay 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 […]
J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New HavenSaturday, March 29, 2025–Sunday, July 27, 2025 Free admission 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), possibly the most widely admired and influential British artist of all time. Though Turner was trained within the English topographical tradition, his practice was deeply rooted in a wider European heritage of […]
Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New HavenSaturday, March 29, 2025–Sunday, August 10, 2025 Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is known for her dynamic and autobiographical works that express themes of love, loss, hope, and grief. With honesty and deep feeling, her art draws on her personal experiences of illness, intimacy, and sexuality to confront broader concerns about women’s bodies and health. The […]
Stitching Time: at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldSeptember 12-December 20, 2025 Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt […]
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldSeptember 19-December 20, 2025 Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir […]