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The Real American West 1830-1920 exhibit at New Britain Museum of Arts
The vastness of the American West has long captured the imaginations of artists and photographers who have explored different ways of representing its cultures. Searching the Horizon, a new exhibit at the New Britain Museum of Art, features over 100 works...Tags: New Britain, Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums
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The Art Of A New Kitchen
Kathi Packer's West Hartford home is filled with fascinating objects collected from her worldwide travels and several of her own complex and exotic paintings, which Douglas Hyland, director of the New Britain Museum of American Art, calls "mesmerizing."...Tags: West Hartford, Electrical Appliance, Real Art Ways, Music, Entertainment
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Hartford/Central Connecticut
Wood Pond PressHARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City – Connecticut's state capital – is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...Tags: Horse (animal), Defense, Trinity College, Firearms, Mark Twain
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Baubles, Brutality And Buff
Unbelievably opulent decorative works, unsettling photographs of contemporary atrocities and an overview of the history of the nude in American art are the dominant themes in major exhibitions at Connecticut art venues this summer.
At Hartford's...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Education, Benjamin West, Lyme, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Classical Music Listings
ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Jan. 3 - 5 - 36th annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival. Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 4, 3 & 6:30 p.m.; Jan. 5, 1 & 4:30 p.m. Historic sanctuary decorated for holiday feast as musicians and jugglers, lords and ladies,...Tags: Suzuki, Trinity College, The Women (movie, 2008), Dance, Travel
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Weir Farm: A Picture-Perfect Park
The Hartford CourantAmong national parks, Weir Farm National Historic Site is a small one, tiny when compared with a Yellowstone or an Acadia. Indeed, it is easily overlooked, though it shouldn't be. Weir Farm may be little, but for what it is, a one-of-a-kind look at a...Tags: Rivers, Lakes and Ponds, Social Issues, Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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Now Playing: Budget Strife
The Hartford CourantAfter years of theater expansion across the state, the momentum has slowed as institutions now face a new power-base reality: a new governor, a new legislature and a new state commission for culture and tourism. No longer are there tens of millions in...Tags: Dolly Parton, West Hartford, Waterbury, Connecticut River, Van Halen (music group)
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Nature's Canvas
The Hartford Courant'October is the month for painted leaves,'' Henry David Thoreau declared in his 19th-century essay ``Autumnal Tints.'' He meant it figuratively, but he might as well have been literal. A tourist magnet of the first order in New England, the fall...Tags: Education, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Lyme, Jackson Pollock, Connecticut
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The 'out and about' crowd
Like timeshares and '60s fashions, group tours are back. New and improved is the message broadcast by longtime tour operators hoping to catch the eye of travelers who have long overlooked or avoided them. New? How?, ask the wary. Itineraries offer...Tags: Trips and Vacations, West Hartford, Manchester Community College, Dining and Drinking, Travel
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New Flemish Master
The Hartford CourantIn the 1998-1999 season, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art banged out home runs at the box-office and in the media with its exhibition of Pieter de Hooch, a 17th-century Dutch master often compared with the now-much-revered Vermeer. De Hooch,...Tags: Ben Shahn, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Maine, Entertainment, Connecticut
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