Connecticut museums and galleries offering exhibits
Connecticut is rich with art galleries, museums and artists in all corners of the state, with gorgeous and engaging exhibits opening every week. Venues that are open to the public, as well as outdoor exhibits, are listed. Visit their websites for social distancing rules.
Hartford County
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford: “Christina Forrer / MATRIX
187” runs through Jan. 2. “Leonardo Drew: Two Projects,” an exhibit of two of Drew’s site-specific sculptural “Explosion” installations, are up until Nov. 14. One will be on the lawn and another in the Main Street lobby. “Goya, Posada, Chagoya: Three Generations of Satirists” is up until Nov. 7. “A Remarkable Friendship: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril” is up until Aug. 29. “Milton Avery:
The Connecticut Years” is up until Oct. 17. “Stories in Ivory and Wood, told by Master Carvers” is up until Oct. 31. Jackson Pollock & Tony Smith is up until 2023. thewadsworth.org.
Amistad Center for
Art & Culture, inside the
Wadsworth Atheneum at 600 Main St. in Hartford: “Through the Looking Glass,” an exhibit of the Randolph Linsly Simpson Collection of African American art, artifacts and ephemera from the 17th to 19th century, is up until Oct. 3.
Butler McCook Gallery, 396 Main St. in Hartford: “Above the Underground: The Art of Andres Chaparro” will be up to Sept.
10. instagram.com/chaparro_art
New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St.: “Walter Wick I Spy: Summer, Autumn, and Winter” is up until Dec. 31. “NEW/NOW Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea” is up until Oct. 24. nbmaa.org.
Fairfield County
MoCA Westport,
19 Newtown Turnpike: “Élan Vital,” juried by Max Teicher and Emily White of Gagosian Gallery, will be on view to Aug. 21. mocawestport.org. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main
St. in Ridgefield: “Clarity Haynes: Collective Transmission” and “Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey” are up until Sept. 6. “Tim Prentice:” After the Mobile” is up to Oct. 4. “Hugo McCloud: from where i stand,” an exhibit of found-object culture, and “Lucia Hierro: Marginal Costs” are up to Jan. 2. aldrichart.org.
The Glass House, 199 Elm St. in New Canaan: The historic home of architect Philip Johnson is open for outdoor tours. theglasshouse.org.
Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road in New Canaan: “Guild Summer Salon” is up to Aug. 20. silvermineart.org.
Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive in Greenwich: “The Amazon Rainforest: Beauty, Destruction, Hope” and “Chain Reaction: The Photography of Patrick Nagatani” are up until Oct. 10. The museum will be closed on Aug. 23 to 25. brucemuseum.org.
Middlesex County
Earth and Fire Art Studio, 2 Main St. in
Essex: River Valley Artists group show, with work by members, is up until Sept. 2. rivervalleyartists.com.
Six Summit Gallery, 314 Flat Rock Place, Suite F135 and F140, in the Outlets at Westbrook: “Legends,” art by Leo Jensen, Al Hirschfeld, Patrick Nagel and more, will be up to Aug. 24. sixsummitgallery.com.
New Haven County
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. in New Haven: The permanent collection is on display. artgallery.yale.edu.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. in New Haven: Permanent collection exhibits “Britain in the World” and “Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections” are up until Dec. 31. “Art in Focus: Women From the Center” is up until Oct. 3. “Furniture at the Yale Center for British Art: A Selection” is up until Dec. 12. Work by Bridget Riley is up until July 24, 2022. britishart.yale.edu.
Mattatuck Museum , 63 Prospect St. in Waterbury: “In the Wake of 9/11: Robert Carley’s American Journey” is up to Sept. 12. ”Collecting Presidential History: Signatures and Ephemera,” an exhibit of pieces from the collection of Francis T. “Fay” Vincent Jr., is up until Dec. 31. “A Face Like Mine, works from a century of Black figurative art, is up until Sept. 12. mattmuseum. org.
Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200, in Woodbridge: The museum is open by appointment only at palestinemuseum.us.
NXTHVN, 169 Henry
St. in New Haven: “Roots to Benevolence,” the Inaugural NXTHVN apprentice exhibit, with artwork by Mekhi Banks, Kaitlyn Higgins, Aime Mulungala, Ashlynn Topper and Donte Warren, is up until Aug. 22. nxthvn.com.
New London County
Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in
Old Lyme: “Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art, Isolation, and Renewal” is up until Sept. 19. flogris.org.
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Road: “Sailor Made: Folk Art of the Sea” is on view. “A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World” will be up until March 27. mysticseaport.org/explore/ exhibits.