Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, which reopened Sept. 25 and then closed again on Oct. 16, citing strict university protocols pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic, will reopen aga…
Free Center in Hartford and Middletown, with the Hill-Stead Museum, are looking for Black artists to submit self-portraits for an exhibit.
The 14th annual SWAN Day CT (Support Women Artists Now) will be held April 17 from Free Center in Middletown. The event is virtual and can be seen on Facebook Live.
In the wake of the departure of Tom Loughman as CEO of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the museum's board chairman William Peelle says that diversity and inclusion will be a big factor goi…
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford is extending its free admission period through June 2021. Admission has been free since the museum reopened in June 2020 after the coronavirus pa…
Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven received a gift of six artworks by famed abstract expressionists Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.
A new 4D cinema with a two-story screen was unveiled on Monday at Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. It replaces the six-story IMAX screen that had to be destroyed to make way for a bridge constr…
CT Murals is partnering with 39 communities across Connecticut to create 39 murals for each year of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life by MLK Day 2022.
A 6-year-old from Southington is appearing on the Feb. 5 episode of the Disney+, Marvel Studios hit show "WandaVision."
Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford will hold a virtual exhibit of artworks created by migrant children separated from their families and kept in a detention center in Texas. Opening rec…
A new mural is unveiled in Manchester, in honor of Martin Luther King, painted by artist Ben Keller of Vernon.
A documentary showing on Jan. 16 on CPTV is about S.Z. Poli, the New Haven-based theater chain owner who was a major player in the vaudeville era and the early days of cinema.
"Legacy List," a PBS reality show about home decluttering that has its season premiere on Jan. 14, will visit the Coventry home of late sculptor David Hayes in the season's fifth episode. Th…
The search for Hartford City Troubadour and City Flow Artist, which was stalled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, has begun again. Applications are due Feb. 15.
Nationally renowned art quilter Ed Johnetta Miller of Hartford has created a quilt to celebrate First Night Hartford, the annual downtown New Year's Eve party that has gone virtual this year…
The Melanin Project CT is a photographic project to appreciate all the various shades of Blackness, and to give recognition to Connecticut Black creative artists.
The inaugural Connecticut Literary Festival (http://connecticutliteraryfestival.org/) took place in September 2019 in Hartford. As an extension of that festival, an anthology of work by 36 C…
A new gallery in Hartford devoted to LGBTQ artworks is being inaugurated this month with a show of work by transgender Connecticut artists. The exhibit will run until Nov. 30. The dates coin…
Black Art Heals is a Hartford initiative to encourage communities of color to make and enjoy art to heal community trauma. Six members of the Black Art Heals collective are taking their show…
With the election just days away, UConn has installed an outdoor art exhibit that puts a twist on the political lawn sign. Thirteen artists used the format to express their views on social, …
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving's S.P.L.A.S.H. Project, created in honor of Iran Brugueras Jr., a rap artist who lived with mental illness who died in 2016 at the age of 20, issued its…
New England Ballet Theatre of CT, a new professional ballet company based in Hartford, will host a fall gala virtual/live performance at Hartford Flavor Company on Oct. 25.
Open Studio Hartford, the annual autumn extravaganza of art-buying in the city, is going virtual this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and has put out a call for artists to part…
The Free Center in Middletown is hosting a live-streamed ballet this month, "Dark Night," The Ekklesia dance company, which studies spirituality through dance, is based in Middletown.
Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon in 1988, lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines and then got asylum in the United States with his family, eventually settling in Hartford. From this scatte…