Open Studio Hartford, an annual extravaganza that lets local artists showcase their work and allows art lovers to buy one-of-a-kind creations, is expanding this year from one weekend to two …
The inaugural Peter Tillou-Venture Smith Book Prize, which was created to honor West African authors writing fiction, nonfiction or poetry in English, will be awarded to Ghanaian poet Kwadwo…
By the time Dennis Hopper shot to international super stardom in "Easy Rider" in 1969, he had been a busy but relatively unknown film actor for 15 years. One of his friends was James Dean, w…
The Push! finalists The Push!, a pitch contest sponsored by YUPntwk, has chosen finalists in two categories. The contest challenged Hartford-area millennials to come up with ideas for a publ…
The first artwork visitors see when entering the Wadsworth Atheneum's new exhibit is a painting by Richard Oelze, which shows a group of people walking across a stark, gray no man's land und…
Composer Wins Prize Tawnie Olson, who lives in New Haven, has won this year's grand prize in the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition competition, which is administered by the school of mu…
Govenor's Arts Awards Five individuals and entities were recently given the Governor's Patron of the Arts Awards, an annual honor which acknowledges support of the arts. The 2018 winners are…
Two creative Connecticut millennials will each be the winners of a $5,000 prize that will allow them to turn their ideas into reality. A contest called The Push! is looking for pitches for s…
Faeries have returned to Old Lyme, as they do every autumn, and this year, they've got a letter for you. In fact, they have all 26 letters and a few punctuation marks. For 2018, Wee Faerie V…
The paintings are uncomplicated, childlike, inspired by ads, movie stills or magazine illustrations. Simple figures ride horses, play with dogs, climb ladders, pose in a garden, row boats. T…
Modest Mussorgsky composed "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874 while grieving the death of his friend Viktor Hartmann. Mussorgsky created his suite as musical accompaniment to 10 Hartmann ar…
The president's never-ending battles with the media are reported on the news every day. But if he thinks he invented the concept of "fake news," he is wrong. For centuries, the powerful have…
Rachel Valentino of Waterbury met Mick Posner of Long Island at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. Both were deaf but they came from different upbringings: She had spoken all her life, …
Anyone who wants to tap into their inner artist won't want to miss the third annual lunchtime "I Am An Artist Day" on Wednesday, Sept. 12, when dozens of free events take place in Hartford's…
Alex Vincent was 6 years old when he was cast as the lead in the horror movie "Child's Play." He was a little worried about the crying scene, but his best friend in the movie didn't scare hi…
Jodi Picoult likes writing stories that challenge readers' long-standing beliefs. "I have become known for writing about contentious issues by showing all side of a controversial subject and…
The State Bond Commission has approved $1 million to help Real Art Ways with "planning and acquisition for a new, larger facility" in Hartford, according to minutes of the July 25 meeting po…
Colorful murals are popping up all over Hartford: a huge image of a toothy-smiled little kid on a community center, a painted collage of city leaders on the side of a school, two mysterious …
Artist Collective, the arts-education hub in the North End of Hartford, will close by mid-2019 if $1 million is not raised to pay its debts, Board Chairman Benjamin Foster told The Courant. …
The 32nd annual Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, a weekend of family-friendly activities, is July 27 and July 28 in areas around the Old Lyme Arts District, along Lyme Street. All events are fre…
Every weekend, Ron-A-Roll roller rink in Vernon is packed with skating families. On Friday, July 27, circus performers join the fun. Cirque to Go is a newly formed collective of former circu…
It isn't just the inside of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art that is bursting with artworks. The front lawn's collection of outdoor artworks is growing. On June 21, the first day of summ…
Rennie McQuilkin was born and raised in Pittsford, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. His mother, Eleanor, was a poet. "I think you have to have somebody in the family preceding you as a poet, to …
The deadline to apply for consideration as Hartford's first poet laureate has been extended to June 18. The position is open to Hartford residents at least 18 years old who have had original…
"The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" was cancelled in 2016, in the heat of the election season. At that time, the host stated "Our show was at its best when the news was at its worst." This…