Arts & Literature Events
06.16.08 - 11.25.09
Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World
Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center
permanent collection of 19th and 20th century Conn. artists, and changing exhibitions of contemporary artists. Ongoing.
Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World
Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center
permanent collection of 19th and 20th century Conn. artists, and changing exhibitions of contemporary artists. Ongoing.
05.01.09 - 11.29.09
Bodies Revealed
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Exhibition hours: Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., with the last ticket sold at 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., with the last ticket sold at 9 p.m. The exhibition features real human specimens, both whole and partial, that have been meticulously dissected and preserved, giving visitors the opportunity to view the complexity of their own organs and systems like never before. Through Sept. 6.
Bodies Revealed
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Exhibition hours: Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., with the last ticket sold at 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., with the last ticket sold at 9 p.m. The exhibition features real human specimens, both whole and partial, that have been meticulously dissected and preserved, giving visitors the opportunity to view the complexity of their own organs and systems like never before. Through Sept. 6.
06.13.09 - 01.17.10
Seeing Around
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Edward Tufte's large-scale abstract outdoor installations, table pieces, steel engravings and digital prints.
Seeing Around
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Edward Tufte's large-scale abstract outdoor installations, table pieces, steel engravings and digital prints.
07.25.09 - 01.03.10
The Matrix Effect
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A retrospective of the MATRIX series, centering on Christian Jankowski's video from 2000, which playfully combines historical documentary with childhood fairytale in an informative, and entertaining narrative. Includes works by past MATRIX artists Sol LeWitt John Baldessari, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Adrian Piper, Louise Lawler, and more.
The Matrix Effect
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A retrospective of the MATRIX series, centering on Christian Jankowski's video from 2000, which playfully combines historical documentary with childhood fairytale in an informative, and entertaining narrative. Includes works by past MATRIX artists Sol LeWitt John Baldessari, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Adrian Piper, Louise Lawler, and more.
09.12.09 - 02.21.10
Imna Arroyo: Ancestral Passage
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Multimedia installation by Arroyo, who is Puerto Rican. It's the result of her ancestral search in Cuba and Africa.
Imna Arroyo: Ancestral Passage
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Multimedia installation by Arroyo, who is Puerto Rican. It's the result of her ancestral search in Cuba and Africa.
09.12.09 - 02.21.10
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
A collection of Cuban art.
Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
A collection of Cuban art.
09.16.09 - 12.13.09
Buddhist Art Work
Wesleyan University, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Japanese temple woodcuts, Tibetan prints and contemporary photographs.
Buddhist Art Work
Wesleyan University, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Japanese temple woodcuts, Tibetan prints and contemporary photographs.
09.19.09 - 04.04.10
Digging Deeper
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas, using artifacts and art from the Amistad collection, highlight the common threads between historical characterizations of race and present-day conceptions of African American culture.
Digging Deeper
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas, using artifacts and art from the Amistad collection, highlight the common threads between historical characterizations of race and present-day conceptions of African American culture.
09.25.09 - 11.24.09
Philip Pearlstein: Recent Works
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
A leading figure in the contemporary realist school.
Philip Pearlstein: Recent Works
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
A leading figure in the contemporary realist school.
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