Week 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 […]
Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield Un iversity
Lecture: Heimat Photography and the Art of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield Un iversity
Elizabeth 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
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 […]