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Arts Paper

As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.

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In Hopes Of Rising, Brush & Palette Club Puts Out A Call For New Members

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A Student Perspective: "Going Modern" At YCBA

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A Student Reflection: Hans Hofmann At YUAG

Hans Hofmann, The Pond, 1958. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Richard Brown Baker, b.A. 1935. Photo: With permission of the Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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"It's About Humanity:" An Artist Responds To ICE Terror

"He Was Only Five," which is oil on canvas and stands at 24 x 24. Lee Massaro Photo.

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Remembering Annie Sailer, Who Taught New Haven To Dance

Annie Sailer in her Erector Square studio during City-Wide Open Studios in October 2021. Charlotte Hughes File Photo.

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"Three Degrees" & A New Artistic Language

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In West Haven, Three Artists Transform A Library

In the midst of barren landscape, a stretch of long, winding road disappears into the horizon and sunset, engulfed in a bursting sun. Where it leads, no one knows: it is surrounded by red, muddy earth, the ground cracked and uneven. As color stretches across the canvas, a viewer’s eye gravitates towards the middle, where a roaring, red ball of fire seems to stare right back.

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At BACA West, An Artist's Spirit Lives On

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In "Reverence," A History Of Hometown Heroes

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In "Unveiled Roots," An Artist Digs Deep At CAW

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An Artist Looks Behind The Veil

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Water Is in the Air

Exquisite River at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art. Photos Kapp Singer.

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Students Show Semester’s Work at Gateway

Sculpture by Taina Jackson. Photos Kapp Singer.

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Mediation & Allusion in Doron Wolf's "My Family & Other Animals"

Doron Wolf with his painting Vanitas (2018). Photos Kapp Singer. All work by Doron Wolf.

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At Palestine Museum, Thobes Stitch A Story Of Cultural Preservation

The Art of the Palestinian Thobe runs through the end of this year. Pictured is a thobe from the collection of artist Renate Ghannam, who first encountered the garments through her husband's family. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Photography & Pharmaceuticals In Wábi Gallery’s "FUSION"

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New Arts Collective Gets Rooted At Koffee?

Demeree Douglas, Jade Streater, Nox Amore, Alana Ladson, Akosua Aidoo and Kaelynne Hernandez. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Ricardo Gutiérrez Takes A Look "Through My Eyes"

Ricardo Gutiérrez, "Metanoia Phase 2, Acrylic on canvas. The artist installed the pieces at Olive & Wooster to display the new series, entitled Through My Eyes, for this reporter. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Refugee Artists Build A New Home In Branford

Mosa Sadat and Laila Mohammadi with their daughter, Lea. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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At BEKI, Landscapes Tell Stories Of “Chaos and Order”

Dganit Zauberman, Field of Vision, 2018. Her exhibition, Land in Flux runs at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI), 85 Harrison St., through June 14 of this year. Corey Schmidt Photo.

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“A Profound Loss:” Painter Constance LaPalombara Dies at 87

Constance LaPalombara painting in Tuscany. Photo courtesy Susan LaPalombara. The third photo in this article is also courtesy Susan LaPalombara.

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Artists Answer Darkness With Light At Kehler Liddell

Kelly Clark, “Immersed,” at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville. Light, the gallery's seventh annual juried show, runs through March 12. Juliette Lao Photos.

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"Sprinkle Factory" Brings The Joy To Koffee?

Jisu Sheen on a recent Friday. Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Jisu Sheen.

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Wábi Artists Make Waves On Orange Street

In foreground: Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez’ “A Myth In My Heart, A Stake In Your Hand." Lucy Gellman Photos.

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In "Primal Affinities I," Artists Bring The Outside In

Steven DiGiovanni, Untitled (chasm); Greg Slick The Lives of Others 7 and The Lives of Others 17; Donna Forma, Freeing The Mind. Miranda Jeyaretnam Photos.

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At Jazzy's, Beyoncé Brunch Starts A Dialogue Around Reentry

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Plastic, Paint Become A Form Of Protest

All artwork by students; Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Second Floor Hardware School Transforms Havenly Into An Art Sanctuary

Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Jisu Sheen, Kulimushi Barongozi, and Sita Sunil.

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Marc Quinn Retells Other Peoples’ Stories At YCBA

Marc Quinn: History Painting +, fourth-floor gallery installation, courtesy of the artist and Yale Center for British Art. Richard Caspole Photo.

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Two Artists Find The Light At Mitchell

Larry Morse and Jane Gilman Fleischner. Their joint exhibition,“In Need of More Light," runs at the Mitchell Branch Library through August 30. Abiba Biao Photos.

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Q House Paints Its Way Into Summer

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NuSpiral, New Haven Artists Transform Front Street Underpass

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At ConnCAT, Kwadwo Adae Makes The Walls Sing

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Kehler Liddell Travels Forward, Looks Back

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Creative Arts Workshop Turns Its Lens On Proximate Perception

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King Lanson Finds Home At The New Haven Museum

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Co-Op Students Paint A Path To Pet Adoption

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Ely Center Artists Braid Hairstory Into New Exhibition

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Page Wooller's Dreamscapes Land On Orange Street

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Thirty Years Of Butterflies

Damien Hirst’s In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd., in Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections, an exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art, October 1, 2020-December 31, 2021. Photo: Richard Caspole, Yale Center for British Art.

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Christian Curiel’s Unsettled Dreams of Youth

Chris Gardner Photos.

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A Collage Artist Takes On Covid-19

Artist Martha Savage holds up her signature "timecards:" mixed media cards that are often composed to portray larger societal issues such as racial injustice, access to health care, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Raquel Burgess Photos; the second photo is by Martha Savage of her timecards.

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On Whalley, Shaunda Holloway's Ode To Survival

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Six Artists "Make It Melanin" At Erector Square

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In"Urabá," Ricardo Gutiérrez Pays Homage To Home

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How A New Haven Artist Found Her Voice

Marsh in her home, which is also her studio, on a recent Monday. Lucy Gellman Photo.

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Collective Consciousness Takes It To The Ballot Box

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Metro Students Vision A Third Reconstruction

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Beyond Banal: The Still-Life Paintings of William Bailey

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Marcella Kurowski Digs Into The Mess

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Eddie Rivera Takes Us To Church

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Pride Center Checks Its +Obias At The Door

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Michael Quirk Brings Light To The Darkness

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