Hit The Bowl, Mac
by | Oct 22, 2024 4:38 pm | Comments (0)
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“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing
by | Oct 18, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
Joan Marcus Photo
Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do. Socially, things might be looking a little bleak. But Hilary has an improbable secret weapon to get in with one group of girls — a passion for, and deep knowledge of, keeping horses. They start to get to know each other. What happens when the conversation moves from secret weapons to secrets?
Go Fish, Yale Film Archive
by | Oct 17, 2024 11:41 am | Comments (0)
The 1994 film Go Fish opens in a classroom where the teacher asks the class to make a list of “women that you think are lesbians or that you know are lesbians.” The answers she gets are everything from Eve to Virginia Woolf to Margaret, Dennis the Menace’s next-door neighbor. One student then asks why they are making the list. The teacher responds: “Throughout lesbian history there has been serious lack of evidence that’ll tell us what these women’s lives were truly about.… lesbian lives and lesbian relationships, they barely exist on paper, and it is with that in mind and understanding that meaning and the power of history that we begin to want to change history.”
Prints From The Underground
by | Oct 16, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (0)
Allan Greenier
Allan Greenier
On display, in Allan Greenier’s show at Westville’s Mitchell library.
Sew Tasty
by | Oct 15, 2024 1:48 pm | Comments (1)
Searching & Strident
by | Oct 15, 2024 11:54 am | Comments (0)
Lori Goldston’s cello helps buzz the Institute’s stacks.
Artists Get Amplified
by | Oct 14, 2024 11:51 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio photos
A multicolored fabric sculpture created by Kat Wiese seemed to float between the trees that framed one entrance to the Eli Whitney Barn. At the other entrance, visitors were greeted by the vibrant bodies and faces painted in vivid colors by artists Jasmine Nikole on the left and Darnell“Saint” Phifer on the right.
The music of R&B legends, courtesy of DJ Q‑Boogie, could be heard from everywhere, boosting the vibe of each and every artistic creation as Amplify The Arts entered its second year at the storied Hamden location and third year in total, continuing its mission — as reiterated on Sunday by organizer Karimah Mickens — of presenting a space for especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and young artists.
“Open Studios” Steps Into The Suburbs
by | Oct 14, 2024 11:37 am | Comments (0)
Victor Smith: "If my heart had not been broken, if I had not been in so great distress, if I had not decided to express my hurts through my paintings, I probably would never have been discovered."
People chatted in the corners among the sculptures. One viewer shared a long moment with a figure in a boat. People exchanged waves and hugs. It was all part of New Haven Open Studios’s second weekend, which encompassed Amplify the Arts in East Rock, but reached to the Gilbert Street studios in West Haven as well, where artists threw open their doors — as they will again next weekend, Oct. 19 and 20, in Erector Square and MarlinWorks, and in Westville, NXTHVN, and elsewhere the weekend after that, Oct. 26 and 27.
Human Animals Watch One Last Doc
by | Oct 11, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Are these prairie dogs wondering what makes them prairie dogs?
Human standing room only at the Cannon.
Prairie dogs have a word for“human.” They talk about us in a language with nouns, adjectives, and variable dialects — even though, to most of us, their words sound like unintelligible squeaks.
I learned that delightful fact at the last-ever film screening by NHDocs, from a vegan advocacy film about what it means to be human in a world of other animals.
After 10 years of hosting local documentary film festivals, NHDocs held its final gatheringWednesday at the Cannon pub on Dwight Street, collaborating with the vegan festival Compassionfest to show animal rights activist Mark Devries’ movie Humans and Other Animals. The screening was followed by a Q‑and‑A with Devries himself.
Island On My Mind
by | Oct 11, 2024 10:11 am | Comments (0)
Robert De Matteo
The diptych, by Robert De Matteo, offers two shapes that strongly echo each other, but are from quite different models. The one on the left is easier to identify right away, as a brain scan from an MRI. The image on the right, though, might require a look at the title. Sure enough, it’s drawn from a satellite image of Charles Island, off the coast of Silver Sands State Park in Milford, the sandbar that connects it to the mainland at low tide clearly visible. The visual pun is funny. The idea that the forms would mirror each other closely says something a little deeper, about recurring patterns in nature, perhaps about how we aren’t as separate from our environment as we might like to think.
Charles Island On My Mind is just one of a panoply of small works that are part of“Glorious Index,”“a tactile, miniature visual compendium exhibition” running at the Institute Library on Chapel Street through Dec. 15 that also introduces the artist-run New Haven Open Studios, the month-long, city-spanning celebration of visual arts running through the end of October. Designed by Bailey Murphy, the show includes the work of no less than 50 artists, many of whom will be opening their studios at events this weekend and for the rest of the month at various locations around town.
City Gallery Opens Wide For Open Studios
by | Oct 10, 2024 11:00 am | Comments (0)
Rita Hannafin
Rita Hannafin’s Float hangs in the midst of City Gallery’s latest show on Upper State Street, a quilt of bright, shifting colors, surprising shapes, dynamic contrasts, and ultimately, cohesion.
It’s an apt encapsulation of City Gallery’s October show. Normally, City Gallery’s monthly shows feature one or two of its member artists. For this month, through Oct. 27, all 16 of the gallery’s member artists are participating in a show, which is itself part of New Haven Open Studios, a month-long celebration of visual arts loosely centered around Erector Square’s warren of artist studios but in fact stretching from one side of New Haven to the other, and this year, into surrounding towns as well.
Three New Albums Put The Heart On The Line
by | Oct 9, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (0)
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Christian Sands.
“Good Morning Heartache,” the opening track on Christian Sands’s latest album, Embracing Dawn, begins with a warm, gently unfolding gesture from the piano, an easing into consciousness. But then there’s an insistent ping from somewhere else. Something’s off, something’s wrong. A beat settles in, heavy and lethargic, with strings adding extra weight. It’s an exploration of a state of mind, in which maybe everything will be okay in time — but it’s not okay now.
Kale & White Bean Soup, Seasoned With Math; Cash Preferred
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (0)
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Psychedelic Furs Bring Nostalgia, Rebirth
by | Oct 2, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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The Psychedelic Furs: Still making music that's fun, sexy, and a bit dangerous.
October opened with a one-two punch as the dreamy double bill of the Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain turned College Street Music Hall into a post-punk version of heaven.
The two lyrically and sonically charged bands have more than their legendary status in common: both were started by and continue to be anchored by brothers, both have been making music for over 40 years, and both have a unique sound that has been highly influential but can never be confused with anyone else.
Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?
by | Oct 1, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (0)
Science writers Sadie Dingfelder and Carl Zimmer talk life without a“mind’s eye,” at Possible Futures.
