425 stories by "Susan Dunne"
Sidney Poitier became a major movie star in the 1950s. But by 1967 " when he starred in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "In the Heat of the Night" and "To Sir With Love" and was the country'…
In the 20th century, many African American artists - songwriters, authors, singers - made names for themselves in the increasingly welcoming world of American popular culture. However, for m…
In the 20th century, many African American artists " songwriters, authors, singers " made names for themselves in the increasingly welcoming world of American popular culture. However, for m…
Years ago, when Louisa Barton-Duguay lived in Moncton, New Brunswick, she was a social justice activist, including helping plan a summit for the International Day for the Eradication of Pove…
When Walt Whitman lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1836 to 1850, he frequently visited the beach at Coney Island, which he described as "a long, bare, unfrequented shore, which I had all to mys…
One of the first things visitors will see when entering the newly renovated Susan Morse Hilles Gallery at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Jan. 31 is a lighted sign reading "Like, Man, I'…
In July, when The Courant last checked in with Nick Fradiani, he was competing on the TV reality show "America's Got Talent" with his band, Beach Avenue. The band got eliminated early on in …
Coney Island amusement park had a sideshow. And the Wadsworth Atheneum's upcoming Coney Island exhibit has a side show, too.
The exhibit 'Buon Natale: Creches Of Italy' the Knights Of Columbus Museum In New Haven has dozens of nativities in different styles, but focuses strongly on Neapolitan-style creches, which …
Susan Lubowsky Talbott, who has been director and chief executive officer of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art since 2008, will announce her retirement on Friday, Talbott told The Courant.
Both David Reed-Brown and Robin Lynch knew what they wanted to do with their lives when they were very young. Lynch was found dangling from her crib as a baby, the beginning of a lifelong lo…
The Hartford Courant has been around for 250 years, publishing its first issue in 1764. For exactly half of that time, 125 years, it was published without photographs. That changed in 1889, …
Mansfield Art Center, on a sparsely populated stretch of Route 32 in Mansfield, looks ordinary from the outside, a green and yellow building set back from the road behind a colorful sign, ac…
Peter Mikulak once was a full-time general contractor in New Haven. Now he's a full-time artist living in his hometown of Bristol. The path that brought Mikulak where he is now hasn't been e…
Sophie Tucker, the legendary bad-girl jazz singer who was raised in Hartford, wrote a memoir in 1935, when she was in her late 40s. For the next 10 years, she went back and forth between pub…
People who participate in Open Studio Hartford on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, can spend all weekend all over Hartford looking at thousands of works of art by creative talents who li…
Over the course of his life, Kevin Iega Jeff has looked at old portraits from the turn of the 20th century and wondered about the people in them. Who were they? What kind of lives did they h…
Sam Schrager has lived at Bushnell Plaza in downtown Hartford for 10 years, and he likes living there, but something always nagged at him: the vast emptiness of the courtyard in front of the…
Douglas Hyland was a senior in 1970, majoring in history at University of Pennsylvania, when he first heard of the New Britain Museum of American Art.
From Nov. 1 to Dec. 7, there will be new artists-in-residence at Real Art Ways in Hartford. Visitors who like what they see can't take the art home with them, but they can take the artists h…
Every year, Florence Griswold Museum's Wee Faerie Villlage outdoor fantasy art installation has a literary theme, and this year, organizer David D.J. Rau thought "Alice in Wonderland" would …
Mark Twain attended a seance in 1866 and wrote about it with his customary cynicism and wit.
Stéfano Alcántara's portraiture is so lifelike, so finely detailed and nuanced, that his work should be hanging in an art gallery. But that won't ever happen. His canvases are human bodi…
In 2008, David Hajdu published "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America," a historical look at 1950s paranoia aimed at the perceived moral depravity of com…
The New York World's Fair came to Flushing Meadows in 1964 and 1965, and then it was gone forever. Unlike Disneyland, which can be visited again and again, the World's Fair lives on only in …
