Just what is the definition of "America"? Is it just the United States? Does it include our North American partners, Mexico and Canada? Does the definition travel as far south as Central Ame…
Hygienic Art, the visual-arts hub in the heart of the New London waterfront, will hold its 38th annual winter art carnival, featuring art, music, fashion, poetry, films and other events, sta…
In the time of Japan's last feudal military government, ruled by the Tokugawa clan from 1603 to 1867, the government licensed "pleasure quarters," where courtesans practiced prostitution and…
The inauguration of the nation's newest president has already sent artists to their studios to turn their concerns into art. New Haven's Kehler Liddell Gallery has gathered some of that art …
Since the November elections, some artists are taking the lead in a national movement they say is designed to protect civil liberties and defend truth in political discourse. An event being …
Thomas Loughman has been at the helm of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford for just shy of a year. Usually, it takes about a year for a new director to start putting his stamp …
Just as Yale University Art Gallery's exhibit of artwork about Yosemite is ending its run " the show closes Dec. 31 " another exhibit about the legendary national park is beginning its run, …
Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London is marking the holiday with a unique exhibit, which celebrates not Santa Claus or Christmas trees but instead the glorious variety of the rainbow. "A Col…
Old Sturbridge Village is a celebration of times gone by, a period-perfect re-creation of an 18th- to 19th-century village. But among the village's attractions this holiday season is a conte…
The new exhibit at Foxwoods Resort Casino of Beatles memorabilia, "The Magical History Tour," begins chronologically before the Beatles existed, when John Lennon was playing in his first ban…
"Nutcracker Suite & Spicy," a modern-day adaptation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet, will give its seventh annual presentation Dec. 9 to 11 in Hartford. But it never would have made it pas…
Connecticut author Wally Lamb has made the ghosts of New London's glorious Garde Arts Center the central characters in his new novel, "I'll Take You There" (Harper, $25.99). After the film p…
When Chris Steininger was a boy, the best day of the school year was Take Your Parent to School Day. Other kids' dads were doctors, lawyers, whatever. Steininger's dad was the coolest of the…
Open Studio Hartford, the annual art-and-artists extravaganza, at which 350 local creative talents will show and sell their creations, is Nov. 12 and 13 in 24 locations around the city. Arti…
On any given morning, Brett Maddux is eating breakfast at a diner somewhere in Connecticut. Maddux doesn't go out for breakfast just to eat, but also to soak in the atmosphere at each place,…
There's something rotten going on at Alfred Pierce Prep School. Pierce is the New England setting for a new five-episode original series on CPTV, "The Cobblestone Corridor," which premieres …
Hartford's second annual Fashion Week " this year Oct. 13 to 16 " will showcase the work of eight Hartford-area designers, as well as designers based in Providence, Boston and New York. Katr…
The sun will come out at night in Elizabeth Park this weekend. Anne Cubberly's glowing 16-feet-tall Solstice Puppet, a beatific sunburst with a Mona Lisa smile, is the shining star and avata…
Yale Poetry Prof. Claudia Rankine and artist-writer Lauren Redniss, who grew up in Stamford, are among this year's recipients of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships. An…
In 1979, someone in Indiana tried to have Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" banned, saying the book "openly rejects traditional marriage and motherhood." In 1998, a Californian tried to ban J.K.…
The new photography exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, of photographs collected by its former curator Sam Wagstaff, is called "The Thrill of the Chase." "It was a thril…
Bloomfield artist Stanwyck Cromwell is known throughout the Hartford area for his jewel-bright oils-on-canvas with references to the folklore and traditions of his native Guyana. But when co…
Imagine a world without "Macbeth," "The Taming of the Shrew," "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night." Imagine a world without "All the world's a stage," "Beware the ides of March," "We are such s…
Ricou Browning became legendary almost by accident. In 1953, He was working at Wakulla Springs near Tallahassee, Fla., lifeguarding and doing other chores. His boss, who was going out of tow…
HARTFORD " The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in a move to open its arms to the city and become a place for its diverse communities to interact, is instituting free admission to Hartford …