The Nasty Women movement sprang into being in late 2016 as a feminist declaration against the presidential election. Three years later, the movement is still going strong in Connecticut. On …
The 24th annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Fest will run March 5 to 15 in venues in Hartford, West Hartford and Bloomfield.
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has announced a total of $360,000 in grants to support arts programs that benefit Hartford youth. The allocations to 11 arts programs were made in r…
"Americana Vibes" exhibit at Real Art Ways in Hartford traces history of 20th century American music in 54 album covers.
An exhibit at Fairfield University of work by six Cuban artists reflects on the years of collective memories of the Castro-era Cuban people, who have endured hunger, poverty and a constant d…
Connecticut Office of the Arts has announced the newest round of Connecticut Arts Endowment and Artist Fellowship Program funding for the 2020 fiscal year. A total of 198 people and organiza…
Twelve not-too-expensive Valentine's Day date ideas to do before or after that intimate romantic dinner at a restaurant.
Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman will come to Wadsworth Atheneum on Feb. 8 to discuss "Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan" and to screen one of Ronald Reagan's films…
A series of 15 artworks by Kara Walker, which address the issue of black identity and historical erasure, are on exhibit at New Britain Museum of American Art. The museum is dedicating 2020 …
Seven theaters in the state will show Oscar nominated live-action, animated and documentary shorts.
Exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven remembers the now-lost 1952 mural by John Wilson, "The Incident," which depicts the aftermath of a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan.
When CONNetic Dance's "Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four members of…
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, an associate professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, has been named the first poet laureate of Hartford. Knowles is 45 and lives in …
When CONNetic Dance's "Nutcracker Suite & Spicy" bounds onto the stage at Wadsworth Atheneum for its shows on Dec. 21, 22 and 23, it will be an especially sweet night for four members of the…
Connecticut Public, which produces Connecticut Public Television, Connecticut Public Radio and Connecticut Public Learning, is introducing a new TV station on Dec. 3 called Create. Create's …
At Christmastime, popular toys, hot books and the latest heavily advertised thing always catch the public's fancy. But the mall and Internet are not the sole options for holiday shopping. Co…
Tickets go on sale Nov. 19 for Camp John Waters, the third annual weekend at the 320-acre Club Getaway in northwestern Connecticut with the cult-film director. The event at the adult camp in…
Jess Nelson didn't used to be into art. "I never got past stick figures," says the 35-year-old Burlington native, who has cerebral palsy. Then she tried art therapy at New Horizons Village, …
The big news in the book-publishing world is actually quite small. Dutton Books for Young Readers has re-released four titles by young-adult best-seller John Green in a tiny format. Each boo…
'Antigone' Oddfellows Playhouse Teen Repertory Company will presenti Sophocles' drama "Antigone" Nov. 29 and Dec. 1, 7 and 8 at the playhouse at 128 Washington St. in Middletown. Marcella Tr…
Puppetry has a long tradition in Africa, with puppets and masks used in sacred and secular ceremonies and as entertainment for centuries. But when kidnapped Africans were trafficked across t…
How do you like them apples? That's the question of the month in Southington, which has launched a public-art project titled Apples & Arts: Thirty area artists have painted 37, 3-feet-tall p…
Stephanie Plum has been a bounty hunter in 24 novels by Janet Evanovich. In her 25th Plum novel, "Look Alive Twenty-Five," Plum takes on a second, unlikely job: the manager of a deli, superv…
Money for the arts Connecticut Office of the Arts is accepting applications for the Connecticut Arts Endowment program, fiscal year 2019. Applicants must be Connecticut 501(c)(3) arts organi…
While the rest of the world is cleaning up after the spooky funfest of Halloween, an arts market in New Haven is just getting started. Gothic Arts Market on Nov. 3 at Lyric Hall Theater is a…