Art lovers can still check out their favorite local museums and galleries with these virtual tours
Connecticut is rich with art galleries, museums and artists in all corners of the state, with gorgeous and engaging exhibits opening every week. Unfortunately, all of those galleries are currently closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak. But there’s still art to be seen, with virtual tours, online exhibits and Facebook live events. Until the health crisis has abated and people can safely go to gathering places again, let’s see art online, at these Connecticut-based websites. In addition, outdoor sculpture installations are still open to the public, and are a welcome respite for those craving a walk in the sunshine. At the outdoor venues, keep social distancing in mind in case there are other art-lovers and families on the property.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. in
New Haven: The web page britishart.yale.edu/multimedia has videos of past gallery talk and lectures, short films and behindthe-scenes looks at past exhibits.
Artspace, 50 Orange St. in New Haven: Digital flatfile exhibitions can be found at artspacenewhaven.org/digitalflatfile-exhibitions. These include “An Alternative Love Story,” with work by Tabitha Barnard, Ebony Beatty, Deborah Dancy, Tony Donovan, James Duval, Daniel Eugene, Insook Hwang, Jeff Ostergren, Yolanda Petrocelli, Lenny Moskowitz anbd Elizabeth Livingston; Folded,” with work by Lexi Axon, Tabitha Barnard, Ebony Beatty, Yaminay Chaudhri, Daniel Eugene, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Dan Gries, Nate Lerner, Shanna Merola, Lenny Moskowitz, Jeff Ostergren, Julie Pereira, Yolanda Petrocelli, Chen Reichert, Julia Rooney, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Catherine Vanaria and Margi Weir; “Lovestruck,” with work by Aspasia Patti Anos, David Borawski, Colin Burke, Matthew DeLeon, Kathleen DeMeo, James Duval, Yikui Gu, Insook Hwang, Laura Marsh, Dorothy Powers and, Petra Szilagyi; “Seeing the Structure,” with work by Alexis Brown, Alisa Dworsky, Stephen Grossman, Rachel Hellerich, Katie Jurkiewicz, Maria Lara-Whelpley, Martha Lewis, Irene K. Miller and Jeff Slomba; “individual vs. crowd,” with work by Colin Burke, Tim Campbell, Karen Dow, Alisa Dworsky, Caitlin Foster, Kathryn Frund, Robert Gregson, Willard Lustenader and Robin Sherin; “HAND in rotation,” with work by Kevin Van Aelst, Cynthia Back, Claudia Cron, Phyllis Crowley and Alyse Rosner; “Into and out of,” with work by David Coon,
Karen Dow, Barbara Hocker and Hong Hong; and “Brightly,” with work by Colin Burke, Sarah Gustafson, Insook Hwang, Evan Levine, Barbara Marks, Amy Pryor, Carol
Radsprecher, Roxanne Faber Savage, Liz Pagano and Mark Williams.
Eckert Fine Art, 12 Old Barn Road in Kent: A group show, “Common Things,” can be seen at janeeckertfineart.com.
City Gallery, 994 State St. in New Haven: Exhibits of artwork by Judy Atlas, Meg Bloom, Joy Bush, Phyllis Crowley, Jennifer Davies, Nancy Eisenfeld, Freddi Elton, Roberta Freidman, William Frucht, Joyce Greenfield, Barbara Harder, Jane Harris, Sheila Kaczmarek, Kathy Kane, Susan Newbold, Tom Peterson and Michael Zack can be seen at citygallery.org.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull
St. in New Haven: At elycenter.org/digital-grace, is showing the exhibits “Wonder Working,” “Margaret Roleke: Fired,” “Brooks Dierdorff: Ballistics & Blindsight,” “Tony Saunders: elucidating,” “Mandy Beatrice: brio,” Jeanne Ciravolo: New Work,” exhibits of work by Matthew Seremet, Loren Britton and Loren Frank, as well as “Emotional Environments,” a show of work by Heide Follin and Sonia Bombart,” and “to (be) scare,” an exhibit of work by Amira Brown, Julian Miholics and Yovska.
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.
Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200, in Woodbridge: A 10-minute informal online tour of the museum, recorded on March 8 at the opening ceremony of “Telling the Palestinian Story - 50 Women Artists - 200 Works of Art” can be found at youtube.com/ watch?v=M2k91U6Aj4o.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, 39 Scofieldtown Road, is showing an exhibit, “Nathalia Edenmont: Fruitfulness” at egstudios.us/tours/stamfordct/ StamfordMuseum/ gallery.html.
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.
Maritime Garage Gallery, inside the parking garage at the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, 11 N. Water St.: “Strength Through Unity,” an exhibit of artwork “that depicts the solidarity and resilience of humanity given the current situation with the global pandemic,” will be up until June 30 at facebook.com/maritimegaragegallery/ https://www.instagram.com/maritimegaragegallery.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford: An audio tour of the new exhibit, “Savor: A Revolution in Food Culture” is available at thewadsworth.org/ savor. There are video hightlights from past exhibits “Bed Furnishings in Early America: An Intimate Look,” “Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s,” “Fredric Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage” and “Gorey’s Worlds” at thewadsworth.org/creativeconnections. Also on that page, on May 9 a virtual Second Saturdays for Families activity pack will be posted, and on May 13 our curator of American decorative arts Brandy Culp and artist Vanessa German will participate in a live conversation produced by #UNLOAD and the Quick Center for the Arts.
New England Carousel Museum, 95 Riverside
Ave. (Route 72) in Bristol: “A video tour of the museum can be found at thecarouselmuseum.org/ online-content.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. at Yale University in New Haven: At beinecke.library.yale.edu/ digital-collection/digitalexhibitions, 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.” Family photos of Tsar Nicholas II’s family, raken between 1907 and 1915, can be seen at beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/ highlights/romanov-family-albums.
Mattatuck Museum, 63 Prospect St. in Waterbury: “Edward Balthazar: Urban Artist” will be online until the end of the year at mattmuseum.org. The exhibit shows Waterbury scenes that Edward J. Balthazar (1890-1956) created during the 1930s and 1940s. Also up until the end of the year is “Women’s Sphere: Selections from the Collection,” a show of 25 works from the museum’s collection created by female artists.
Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike in Vernon: The 70th annual Academic Artists Association exhibit of traditional realism can be seen at academicartistsassociation.org/ exhibitions/70th-2020.html.
ArtSpace, 480 Main St. in Willimantic: Graduating BFA students in UConn’s Department of Art and Art History are showing their work at uconnbfa2020.com, instagram.com/uconnbfashow and online.fliphtml5.com/ jnntv/uepw.
WORK_SPACE, 903 Main St. in Manchester: At goo.gl/maps/tx4AQshVYcYgiwA2A, web visitors can see the exhibit of art by teens who attend Manchester, Cheney Tech, East Catholic and Great Path high schools in town.
New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave.: The web page collections.newhavenmuseum.org has a list of permanent exhibits, including “Form and Function: Decorative Arts from the Collection,” “From Clocks to Lollipops: Made in New Haven,” “New Haven Illustrated,” “Robert R. Wiseman Artist Etcher, “Signs of the Time: Highlights from the Collection” and “The Amistad Story: Cinque Lives Here.” Click on the link to see items in that exhibit.
Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St. in the Centerbrook section of Essex: The exhibit “Shadow Dance” is online and can be seen at spectrumartgallery.org/ product-category/shadowdance.
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Road: Two historical exhibits can be seen online: “Adventurous Use of the Sea: The Cruising Club of America” and “The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan.” mysticseaport.org/explore/ exhibits.
Hygienic Art Galleries, 79 Bank St. in New London: “The Crossing,” the annual juried exhibit, is at facebook.com/hygienicart and hygienic.org.
Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St.: The exhibit “Local Color 4: Rails, Roads & Rivers ” can be found at windsorartcenter.org/local-color-4-railsroads-rivers.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. in New Haven: A virtual tour of the David Friend Hall, a time lapse video of the renovation of the Great Hall and other museum features can be found at peabody.yale.edu/digital-resources.
The Gallery at Still River Editions, 128 East Liberty St. in Danbury: “Three Generations,” a group show of paintings, etchings and sculpture by Vito Gesualdi, David