MUSEUM
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of Art 56 Lexington Street, New BritainJanuary 24, 2025 - May 18, 2025 "It must not be assumed that American Impressionism and French Impressionism are identical. The American painter accepted the spirit, not the letter of the new doctrine." - Christian Brinton, 1916 In 1874, a group of avant-garde French artists, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, […]
2025 Bruce Gala: Embrace the Magic at The Bruce Museum
SAVE THE DATE! For information or tickets, email specialevents@brucemuseum.org or call 203-413-6752.
Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn at The Benton Museum
The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, StorrsJanuary 21 - July 27, 2025 Before becoming an award-winning ceramicist and the founder of the UConn ceramics program, in spring 1942, Minnie Negoro was a young college senior at UCLA on the verge of her college graduation. Over the course of six days, her life turned upside down. As the U.S. forcibly removed and […]
Docent Tour: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldJoin us at 1 p.m. for a docent-led tour of the exhibition Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann. 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 […]
Save the Date: RiverFare 2025 at the Connecticut River Museum
Connecticut River Museum 67 Main Street, Essex, CTJoin the Connecticut River Museum for RiverFare 2025! Delight in an evening of delicious food, wines, cocktails, music and more while enjoying the beautiful river views from the Museum’s front lawn. Local restaurants and caterers provide delectable samples of their culinary talents. Enjoy tastings from wineries and breweries of the Connecticut River Valley. Do not miss the […]
2025 Connecticut Women artists National Open Juried Exhibition at The Benton Museum
The Willian Benton Museum of Art 245 Glenbrook Road, StorrsMay 30 - July 27, 2025 Connecticut Women Artists (CWA) was established in 1929 by twenty women artists from the Hartford area who wanted to create exhibition opportunities for fellow women artists at a time when there were very few. CWA is a statewide organization of highly accomplished artists working in various media, including painting, […]
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 […]
Art in Motion Gala at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonJoin us at Lyman Allyn’s Annual Gala on Saturday, May 31, 20235 Community, connection, and camaraderie take centerstage at Lyman Allyn’s spring gala, where this year’s festive cocktail party celebrates the Museum’s ongoing […]
Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield Un iversity
Fairfield University Bellarmine Hall 1073 North Benson Road, FairfieldElizabeth Cronin, author of Heimat Photography in Austria (2015), will explore Trude Fleischmann in relation to this type of photography. Elizabeth Cronin oversees the Photography Collection in the Wallach Division. She is the curator of The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History. At NYPL, she curated Viewpoints: Latin America in Photographs and co-curated Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing […]
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 […]
Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton
Fuller Craft Museum 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MADecember 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 […]