ART OPENINGS AND EXHIBITS
OPENINGS
Impressionism ... Then & Now Opening reception 4-7 p.m. Saturday Thames River Gallery 239 Bank St., New London
This exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition. It features the work of 11 artists and will be on view for three or four months. Gallery hours are 10 a.m-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat.; (860) 443-0344, @thamesrivergalleryct.
In the Company of Women Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday Air Gallery, 198 Railroad Ave., Westerly This group show features the works of four women who have been meeting regularly for a dozen years to support each other creatively: Laura Gaffke of Groton, Diana Sartor of Charlestown, Kathy Johnson of Waterford and Annie Wildey, owner of AiR Gallery. The exhibition’s opening reception is part of First Friday
Arts Crawl, followed by “An Afternoon with the Artists” at 4 p.m. Saturday. Other arts crawl highlights include Denny Caruso’s mixed media at studio H at 32 Friendship St., black and white photographs of the punk rock era by Justine DeMetrick at Westerly Camera & Darkroom on Canal Street, and the works of Westerly High School seniors at The United, also on Canal. Follow the yellow Arts Crawl signs or visit https://www.airstudiogallery.net/art-crawl for more information.
MUSEUMS
Fun & Games? Leo Jensen’s Pop Art —
The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme; features the work of Pop Artist Leo Jensen (1926–2019); runs through May 19; hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Sun. through March; after that, the site is open till 5 p.m. on all of those days; (860) 434-5542.
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Beatrice Cuming: Connecticut Precisionist — Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St., New London; Cuming (American 1903-1974) was an important and under-recognized Connecticut woman artist working in an era of tremendous change; she worked in New London for much of her career and celebrated modernity in her dynamic depictions of urban life in the 1930s-’50s; runs through May 26; artworks by students from area schools on view in the museum’s Lehman Auditorium; featured now through May 19 is art by students of the Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School; on view now through May 12 is art by students of New London Visual & Performing Arts Magnet Pathway (grades 6-8), with an opening reception May 8; hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun.; (860) 443-2545. Women of Mystic — Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water St., Mystic; this exhibition features the work of Mystic art colony’s creative and irrepressible women artists; runs through June 2; museum reopens this Saturday; hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; (860) 536-7601, mysticmuseumofart.org.
Alexis Rockman: Oceanus — Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic; the show features 10 large-scale watercolors and an 8-by-24-foot panoramic painting, all commissioned by the Museum to become part of the permanent collection; also, “Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates,” a major exhibition featuring selections from the 19th-century Blaschka Glass Invertebrates collection at The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and from other institutions, runs through Sept. 2024; “Sea as Muse and Fish & Forrest: Through the Lens of a Commercial Fishermom” features silver objects and wood carvings inspired by the sea; runs through spring 2024; (860) 572-0711; mysticseaport.org.
OTHER VENUES
Resilience — Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; this exhibition examines social justice in America through the eyes of Andre Rochester, a 40-year-old Black man and Pamela Pike Gordinier, a 76-year-old white woman; on view through May 26; artist talk at 7 p.m. May 7; gardearts.org.
Ship to Shore: A Marine Show — Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Old Lyme; also on view through May 30 are art by the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and John Caggiano’s solo show, “Then & Now”; hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun.; (860) 434-7802.
MUSIC
Lyle Lovett and Lisa Loeb — 8 p.m., Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; tickets $48-$125 plus fees; (860) 444-7373, gardearts.org. See page 4.
Slaughter — 8 p.m. at Wolf Den, Mohegan Sun; free. Greg Hawkes with Eddie Japan Performing the Music of The Cars — 8 p.m., Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, Old Saybrook; $41.
Jon Thomas — 7 p.m., Blue Duck, 52 Bank St., New London; free; theblueducknl.com.
A Band of Killers — 8 p.m., Knickerbocker Music Center, 35 Railroad Ave., Westerly; $15; knickmusic.com.
Steve Hunt & Friends — 8 p.m., Norwich Arts Center, 62 Broadway, Norwich; $25 adults, $23 seniors/military/students, $20 members, norwicharts.org.
STAGE
“Our Town” — 7:30 p.m., Granite Theatre, Westerly; $30 for adults, $27 for seniors, and $25 for youths; granitetheatre.org.
“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” — 8 p.m., Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam; tickets $30 and up; (860) 873-8668, goodspeed.org.
EVENTS
Scrabble Club — 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Waterford Public Library, 49 Rope Ferry Road, Waterford; for adults; free; (860) 444-5805.