CT museums, galleries offer virtual tours, exhibits
Connecticut is rich with art, in open museums or outdoor exhibits, in online exhibits and Facebook live events. When venturing out, keep social distancing in mind, and wear a mask.
Venues that are open to the public, as well as outdoor exhibits, are listed at the top of this file, by county. Visit their websites for social distancing rules. The venues that are still closed but have virtual offerings are listed in the “online” section.
Hartford County
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford: “Ali Banisadr / MATRIX 185” is up until Feb. 14. “Made in Connecticut: Celebrating 25 Years of the CT Art Trail is up until Feb. 7. “Chaim Gross: I Love My Baby / A Love of Wood” is up until April 18. Also on view: “Protest and Promise Selections from the Contemporary Art Collection, 1963—2019,” an exhibit of protest work, and “Design in the American Home, 1650 to 1850.” thewadsworth.org.
Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. in Hartford: On view now: “Statues Also Die,” a study of monuments and their creation and removal; “Indigestion: Athena Rigas” and “Homebound: Shannon Vangyzen.” realartways.org.
Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave. in Hartford: The historical home museum is open for small tours, by reservation only. Also, a 3D virtual tour can be seen at marktwainhouse.org/about/ the-house/virtual-tour/. A virtual reality tour also is available at that URL, but certain software must be downloaded. marktwainhouse.org.
Main Street in Hartford: A stroll down Main Street provides ample artworks to view. In front of the library, there is a sculpture by David Hayes and a statue of Mark Twain. Between City Hall and Wadsworth Atheneum is Alexander Calder’s massive red “Stegosaurus.” In front of the Atheneum are a statue of Nathan Hale and sculptures by Conrad Shawcross, Tony Smith and William Turnbull. Across the street from the Atheneumn is Carl Andre’s “Stone Field Sculpture.” Also across the street from the Atheneum is the Bushnell Towers sculpture garden. thewadsworth.
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Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth St. in Hartford: “A Vote of Her Own: The Long Fight for Woman Suffrage” is up until spring. Permanent exhibits are “Making Connecticut” and “Inn & Tavern Signs of Connecticut.” chs.org.
West Hartford Art League, 37 Buena Vista Road: A members’ juried exhibit is up until Jan. 17. The Best in Show is Kimberly Scoble’s oil, “Trio.” westhartfordart.org.
Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turn
pike in Vernon: An exhibit of wearable art is up Feb. 19 to March 13. artscentereast.org.
,56 Lexington St.: “Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change,” an exhibit of work by women, is up until Jan. 24. “NEW/NOW: Shantell Martin” is up until April 18. nbmaa.org.
on the town green in Canton: “Love! Love! Love!,” a members’ show, is up until March 13. Also solo shows by Zina Saunders and Edith Skiba LaMonica. galleryonthegreen.org.
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Fairfield County
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main
St. in Ridgefield: “Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle” and “Frank Stella’s Stars: A Survey” are up until May 9. “Twenty Twenty,” an exhibit that documents and responds to the 2020 election season, is up until March 14. aldrichart.org.
199 Elm St. in New Canaan:
The historic home of architect Philip Johnson is open for outdoor tours. theglasshouse.org.
Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive in Greenwich: “Fun / No Fun: Children’s Book Art by James Stevenson” is up until
April 18. “She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms: Paintings and Prints by Emily Mason” is up until March 21. brucemuseum. org.
Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Mathews Park, 299 West Ave. in Norwalk: “Days to Remember: Members Exhibition 2020 and “William Everston: Mythologies” will be up to Feb. 21. contemprints.org.
The Gallery at Still River Editions, 128 East Liberty St. in Danbury: ““Abstractions: Shadows & Runes,” an exhibit of photographs by Joy Bush of Hamden, will be up until March 26. stillrivereditions. com.
Tolland County
University of Connecticut in Storrs: An online guide to two campus art and sculpture hunts, one for the north campus and one for the south campus, can be found at https:// benton.uconn.edu/ campus-art-and-sculpturehunt/
David Hayes Sculpture Fields, 905 South St. in Coventry: The fields, which surround the home of the sculptor (1931-2013), are open to the public for selfguided tours. davidhayes. com.
New Haven County
Palestine Museum US,
Work by photographer Paul Ott is on show at Six Summit Gallery in Westbrook.
1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200, in Woodbridge: The museum is open by appointment only at palestinemuseum.us.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave. in New Haven: “French Postcards, by photographers Penrhyn and Rod Cook,” is up from Jan. 14 to March 28. kehlerliddellgallery.com.
City Gallery, 994 State St. in New Haven: “Perseverance: Three Artists Work through Stressful Times” is on view until
Jan. 31, showing work by Michael Zack, Ruth Sack and Susan Newbold. city-gallery.org.
Middlesex County
Andrews Memorial Town Hall, 54 East Main St. in Clinton: Members of Clinton Art Society are showing their work until Jan. 28. clintonartsociety. info.
Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St. in the Centerbrook section of Essex: “The Human + Animal Bond” is up from Jan. 22 to March 7. spectrumartgallery.org.
Six Summit Gallery, 314 Flat Rock Place, Suite F135 and F140, in the Outlets at Westbrook: “Peter, Paul and Nancy,” an exhibit of work by Peter Seltzer, Paul Ott and Nancy Witcher, is up until Jan. 30. sixsummitgallery.com.
New London County
Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “Expanding Horizons: Celebrating 20 Years of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection” and “Centennial of the Lyme Art Association Gallery” will be up until May 23. flogris.org.
Mystic Seaport , 75 Greenmanville Road: “A Way with Wood: Celebrating Craft” is in the Collins
Gallery. “Mary Mattingly’s Open Ocean” is up through January. mysticseaport. org/explore/exhibits.
Gilbert V. Boro Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds, 80 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: The sculpture grounds, with works by Boro and other artists, is on private property but is open to the public. Boro asks guests not to enter any buildings. A YouTube video about the grounds, part of the Smithsonian Channel documentary series “America: Over the Edge,” can be seen at gilbertboro.com.
LaGrua Center ,32 Water St. in Stonington: “Artists Respond to Crisis (ARCLove)” is up until the end of February. lagruacenter.org.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St. in New London: “Things Come Apart,” an exhibit of photographs by Todd McLellan about the evolution of the smartphone and dozens of other everyday technologies, will be up until Feb. 7. lymanallyn.org.
Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “First Impressions,” an exhibit of members’ work, and the “New Elected Artists Show,” with work by Michael Centrella, Jacqueline Jones, Susan Termyn and Len Swec, will be up from Jan. 15 to March 11. lymeartassociation.org.
Litchfield County
Five Points Gallery,
33 Main St. in Torrington: “Realist Abstractions:
Bob Knox,” “Surface and Substance: Patrick Kennedy and Brian Williams” and Pagliacci: Mark Mones” are up from Jan. 22 to Feb. 27. fivepointsgallery.org.
Five Points Annex Gallery, 17 Water St. in Torrington: “Five Points Launchpad Exhibition: Morgan Bayona, Erin Cunliffe, Jessica Fallis, Aaron M. Flynn, Karl Goulet, Rose Orelup, Sarah Sparkowski & Michaela
“Barcelona Balconies,” an acrylic by Len Swec, is on view at Lyme Art Association.
Todd” is up by appointment onlyu. fivepointsgallery.org.
Ober Gallery, 6 North Main St. in Kent: “Yefim Ladyzhensky (1911-82): Paintings and Drawings” is up until Feb. 28. obergallery.com.
David M. Hunt Library, 63 Main St. in the Falls Village section of Canaan: “12X12,” the library’s annual year-end flash art exhibition, is up until Jan. 26. huntlibrary.org.
Online
Hamden Art League, 2901 Dixwell Ave.: Hamden Art League Plein Air Show 2020, is now online at www.hamdenartleague. org.
Alvarez Gallery , 11 Brookside Road in Redding: “Tabula Rasa,” an exhibit of work by Ben Quesnel, can be seen at https:// alvarezgallery.com/viewing-rooms/tabula-rasa-theart-of-ben-quesnel/
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. in Hartford: “Still in Prison: George Gould” is up now at charteroakcenter.org.
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Art Gallery at Mercy by the Sea, 167 Neck Road in Madison: “The Colors of Haiti,” an exhibit of paintings by Patricia Brintle, can be seen at https:// www.mercybythesea.org/ campus/mary-c-daly-artgallery/the-colors-of-haiti/
Russell Library, 123 Broad St. in Middletown: “Out of Prison, Making
Art” will be up until Nov. 30 at russelllibrary.org/out-ofprison-art-exhibit.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. at Yale University in New Haven: At beinecke. library.yale.edu/digital-collection/digital-exhibitions, these exhibits can be seen: “Carl Van Vechten’s Harlem Renaissance
Portraits,” “Not Reading in Early Modern England,” “Making the Medieval English Manuscript: The Takamiya Collection,” “Arthur W. Wang: Photographs,” “Go, Little Book: Portable Medieval Manuscripts,” “Imprints: David Plowden, a Retrospective,” “No Place on Earth: America and the Utopian Dream,” “Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient,” “Petrarch:
The Power of the Word,” “The Bollingen Prize for American Poetry,” “The Illustrated Word,” “The Illustrating Traveler” and “The Speculum Theologiae.”
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at Manchester Community College, Great Path Road: The annual faculty art exhibit can be seen at manchestercc.edu/ hans-weiss-newspace/ faculty-art-show.
Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Road: At fairfield.edu/museum/ watch-and-listen/index. html, a series of videos can be seen relating to the current exhibit “Archives of Consciousness: Six Cuban Artists.” Also on view: “Howard Skrill: Monumental Follies.”
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, 3011 Whitney Ave. in Hamden: Highlights from the permanent collection, as well as pieces from the exhibit “Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger,” are at collections. ighm.org/Eresults.aspx?pS=*&dir=ART.
Slater Memorial Museum, at Norwich Free Academy, 108 Crescent
St.: A virtual tour of the museum is at nfaschool. org/uploaded/Virtual_ Tours/tour/index.html.
Hartford Art School at University of Hartford in West Hartford: The 47th Annual Hartford Youth Renaissance Exhibit is on view at hartfordschools. org/47th-annual-hartford-youth-art-renaissance-exhibit/
Connecticut Digital Archive, a digital preservation repository program supported by the University of Connecticut Library, features archives of many Connecticut collecting entities, including Avon Free
Public Library, Barnum Museum, Bridgeport History Center, Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut State Library, Connecticut
State Museum of Natural History, Hartford Public Library, P.T. Barnum Digital Collection and the University of Connecticut. ctdigitalarchive.org.
1 Royce Circle at UConn in Storrs: “Shakespeare and Puppetry” and “Paul Vincent Davis and the Art of Puppet Theater” are up at https:// bimp.uconn.edu/ online-experiences-2/.