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In Photo Exhibition, the Poor of 1935 Have Much to Say to the Poor of 2010new

When Colleen McDannell first began curating Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography 1935-1943, an exhibition of photographs from the last economic depression, we were not in the current one.

New Haven Advocate | Mark Oppenheimer | 01-26-2010 | Art

Tags: Colleen McDannell, Picturing Faith, Great Depression, recession

A Meditation on Keeping Great Finds to Oneselfnew

Any object is marred by seeing. To reveal it means to erase it. Whatever people find there will not be what it was that inspired their coming.

New Haven Advocate | Stephen Vincent Kobasa | 05-19-2009 | Art

Tags: commentary, visual art

Landscapes, Urban and Suburban, on the Brink of Catastrophenew

An ecology of tedium might threaten us here, given the cascade of exhibitions being devoted to landscape. But there are a sufficient number of individual artists in two local shows who succeed in making the subject their own, while escaping the stereotypes of the convention.

New Haven Advocate | Stephen Vincent Kobasa | 04-07-2009 | Art

Tags: landscape, Seduced: The Relevance of Landscape in the 21st Century, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, visual arts

A Conversation of Surprises at New Haven Gallerynew

Artists reinvent time. There is, of course, the new before and after of the work itself. The world is altered by each new making. But the best art can also render time as if it were powerless.

New Haven Advocate | Stephen Vincent Kobasa | 02-17-2009 | Art

Tags: photography, Joseph Saccio, Keith Johnson, Transformative: Keith Johnson & Joseph Saccio

Photographer Paul Duda Captures China's Cultural Landmarks as They're Destroyednew

Duda has been documenting the way things used to be -- before the 2008 Olympics spurred a national call for modernization of Beijing -- and the way things are now, with crumbling walls and loose bricks around every corner. "I got to photographing these areas in Beijing without any prior knowledge they were going to wipe it out," he says. "Then I went back and realized they were gone, so I just kept going back, kept re-photographing."

New Haven Advocate | Laura Yao | 06-03-2008 | Art

Tags: China, Olympics, photography, Beijing, Development, visual arts, Paul Duda

Museum of the Lostnew

Misplaced, stolen and obliterated works need curating too.

New Haven Advocate | Stephen Vincent Kobasa | 02-12-2008 | Art

Tags: visual arts

In Bed Togethernew

Connecticut's contemporary art galleries join forces to present an intimate look inside our hotel rooms.

New Haven Advocate | Lorraine Gengo | 07-24-2007 | Art

Tags: visual arts

Scenes From an Obscenity Conferencenew

Shit is not happening at this academic meeting -- but not for lack of trying.

New Haven Advocate | Catherine Arnott Smith | 05-08-2007 | Art

Tags: visual arts

The Comics Page Goes to Warnew

Mature work has been creeping onto the comics pages for years, with strips like The Boondocks, Candorville and others joining Doonesbury in tackling contemporary political issues -- but what of once reliably non-confrontational strips like Beetle Bailey?

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 03-27-2007 | Art

Tags: war in iraq, comics