425 stories by "Susan Dunne"
HARTFORD " Jacques Lamarre, one of Hartford's most beloved cultural boosters, is leaving his job at Mark Twain House & Museum on April 16 to become a senior account manager at BuzzEngine, a …
Every year, the Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival shows movies in a wide range of topics, as monumental as the Holocaust and as intimate as a relationship between mothers and childre…
Samba Gadjigo grew up in Senegal reading books written by French-language authors that marginalized black characters, if they depicted them at all. "They devalued everything that is African …
Since 2011, the internal conflict in Syria has killed more than a quarter of a million people and forced more than 11 million from their homes, according to United Nations estimates. Million…
When Alice fell down the rabbit hole in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," she landed in a world that in the 20th century might be referred to as DalÃ-esque. Alice shrinks and grows and …
Spring training is underway and another baseball season is upon us. There's no better time to revisit a historical event that happened in Hartford in 1918: Babe Ruth visiting for an exhibiti…
The new exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is called "The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection." With a title like that, visitors know going in …
Dada artists of the early 20th century believed that everything in the world was art, and nothing in the world was art. Anarchy was the key. If nothing made sense, that was OK. In theory, on…
Often when people visit museums, they leave wishing they could see a certain piece of art every day. Yale University's art museums are making that easier. Want Van Gogh's "The Night Cafe," o…
When a person sees a painting on a wall, they may react to it emotionally, but it's still a static object, unchanging. For the creator, however, a painting is dynamic, an ever-changing serie…
Ivan Backer is 86 years old and has spent his life working to benefit the poor, the disenfranchised, people whose voices were not heard. His entire adulthood, every time Backer needed to act…
Bill Eppridge was sent on a photo assignment for Life Magazine on Feb. 7, 1964. Based on how his editor described the job, Eppridge had no way of knowing it would be one of the most importan…
Travis Durden is a French artist who is fond of American movies. Travis Durden isn't his real name, which he doesn't reveal. He took the pseudonym from Robert De Niro's role in "Taxi Driver,…
Photographic self-portraitist Kate O'Donovan Cook, who has an exhibit on the walls now at New Britain Museum of American Art, was shaped artistically by two very different forces: gender and…
In 1997, Lorna Little of West Hartford was preparing to attend a family reunion in Jamaica. She needed a passport. She wrote to records officials in England, where she was born, for a birth …
Thomas J. Loughman, associate director of program and planning at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has been appointed the 11th director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museu…
Bridgeport attorney Michael Koskoff co-wrote a screenplay about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and sold the script to producer Paula Wagner. Wagner, who has produced several bl…
Fans nationwide are thrilled about "Star Wars: Episode VII " The Force Awakens," which opens Thursday, Dec. 17. In some cities, people already are camping outside theaters. Jared Brodeur isn…
Lyme Street in Old Lyme is an art lovers' dream, a stretch of road noteworthy for its many high-quality exhibition spaces. Right now, five exhibits can be viewed at five different places, ea…
George Washington wasn't known as a poet, but a few times he let his muse carry him away. When he was a teenager, he wrote to a young lady: "From your bright sparkling Eyes, I was undone; Ra…
Bill Griffith is a cartoon-world superstar, as the creator of the loopy comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead." With his latest project, however, the comic artist isn't going for laughs but for per…
Movie theaters have a long history of offering amenities to lure people out of their homes and into the cinemas. In the 1920s, air conditioning made its debut in theaters. In the '30s, theat…
Paint gets a bum rap in many corners of the contemporary art world. An unprecedentedly wide variety of artistic platforms are available in the 21st century. So the art form dating back to pr…
Hundreds of artists in Hartford will throw open the doors of their studios to show and sell their work in the annual citywide art spectacular Open Studio Hartford on Saturday and Sunday, Nov…
Shonali Bose wrote and directed "Margarita, With a Straw" and the movie's lead character, Laila, is essentially Bose herself at age 19: ambitious, assertive, multinational, bisexual. It didn…
