New Britain Museum of American Art

Sr. Mary A. McCarthy, RSM, president of Mercy High School and Mrs. Melissa Bullock, principal of Mercy High School have announced that Catherine Kannam is the Salutatorian of the Class of 2013. Catherine is a resident of Durham, and the daughter of...

Hartford’s TheaterWorks has its first full-time development director Dina Silva has more than 10 years experience ten years of fundraising experience, previously working a development manager at both the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the...

New Britain Museum of American Art will have its 2013 ART Party of the Year, an annual black-tie gala to sell and admire artwork, on Saturday, May 4, starting at 6 p.m. Money raised will benefit the museum’s educational programming. The event...

Clinton Deckert, a surrealist painter from Southington, regularly shows his work at the Paris in Plantsville Gallery in that town. But now, in a switcheroo, the Plantsville guy is going to Paris. Deckert has been chosen to show one of his works,...

David Hayes lives in an early-18th-century house on a 57-acre lot in Coventry, his home since 1968. To wander around Hayes' property is to discover Hayes' passion. On 10 acres of open fields, and scattered in the marshy woods, are hundreds of Hayes'...

In 1873, Mark Twain and his friend, Charles Dudley Warner, were complaining about the sorry state of contemporary literature. So their wives challenged them: If books today are so bad, then write a better one. So they did. Twain wrote the first 11...

There are a number of ways to begin any artistic project. Michael Mahalchick, whose work is the focus of the upcoming NEW/NOW exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art came up with a novel approach: he canvassed the local community, asking for...

Douglas K. S. Hyland, cirector of New Britain Museum of American Art, will give a talk called “Treasures from Two Collections” on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. at New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave., in celebration of the museums 150th...

The New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St., has expanded its hours to include Mondays. Hours at the museum now are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday noon...

This painting, “Apple Pie,” by James Montgomery Flagg, is one of the works at a new exhibit “Paintings by American Illustrators from the Sanford Low Collection at the New Britain Museum of American Art,” which will open at the...

Toulouse-Lautrec & His World Through May 12 at the New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St., New Britain, nbmaa.org   Toulouse-Lautrec & His World is an unexpected pleasure for New Britain — or anywhere else for that matter. Yes,...