Day Tripping
Now that museum doors are again open, time to hit the road and see what’s up in local and regional museums. The museum websites are full of on-line education, pod casts and virtual tours of their entire museums. We note that some museums are relying on their in-house collections at this time, which is not a bad thing as so many of their collections are rotated out of storage that they are new to the viewer. At the time of going to press, each organization was updating their Covid safeguards, hours and days of operation and upcoming shows, so please click on their web sites before going. Here are the exhibitions that are current and upcoming.
Florence Griswold, Old Lyme
Our neighbor and partner in the Old Lyme Arts District
www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, aka, The Kate, Old Saybrook, offers a variety of events for visitors, which include art films about famous artists. Their 2023 schedule includes films about Hopper, Mary Cassatt and Raphael. Click here for their schedule.
Lyme Art Academy, Old Lyme, our neighbor down the street. In addition to offering great teaching to young students of art offers some great exhibitions for visitors to the Lyme Old Lyme area. Click here to see their exhibition schedule.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
www.mfa.org
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain (NARM member) www.nbmaa.org
The Clark Museum, Williamstown, MA (NARM member)
Sculpture 'Scapes: Central Park Sculpture Tours
Small Group Tours of the Sculptures in Central Park led by artist, sculptor and teacher, Wendy Swain.
Maximum number per tour: 6 people | Minimum number per tour: 3 people.
Cost: $25 per person
Meals & Travel: On-your-own for transportation and lunch.
Tours: There are three tours available to choose from. All tours will take place unless there is a heavy downpour or storm.
Tour #2: Sculptures and features of the Northern part of Central Park.
Tour #3: Cover the Hispanic Society and the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. This tour begins at 125th Street Station, where participants will taxi to the Hispanic Society to enjoy the sculptures on Audubon Terrance by Anna Hyatt Huntington before entering the museum. Inside, the group will visit the beautiful paintings and pottery of Spain and Hispanic America, and end the visit in the circular room filled with large enthralling murals by Joaquin Sorolla. Wendy will acquaint you with the lives of some of the artists and talk about the various regions of Spain represented by the Sorolla Murals. The tour will end after taxiing to the Metropolitan Museum to view some of the sculptures in the American Wing there.
For more information: contact Wendy Swain at wendysw10s@gmail.com or 203-386-9125.
Noteworthy Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
>www.metmuseum.org
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
www.whitney.org
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NYC
www.moma.org
The Frick Collection, New York City
www.frick.org
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
www.artic.edu
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
www.philamuseum.org
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
www.nga.gov
Tate, UK (family of four art galleries)
www.tate.org.uk
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (free)
www.artgallery.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (free)
www.britishart.yale.edu
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (NARM member)
www.thewadsworth.org
Images & Tours
Google’s Art & Culture page allows you to search over 100,000 art works by color, as well as take on-line tours of many museums of all genres. https://artsandculture.google.com/
Another source for on-line tours is: www.elitetraveler.com
North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM): If you enjoy museum visits, consider joining the North American Reciprocal Museum Association (NARM), www.narmassociation.org, a network of 1,190 member art museums, galleries, historical museums, and societies, including 18 in Connecticut and 71 in Massachusetts.
Movies
Exhibition on Screen
A UK company that produces high-quality art movies, some available for free, others to download or stream for a modest fee. These are the ones shown at The Kate; a good way to catch up on the ones you missed. www.exhibitiononscreen.com
Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney (1:20 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjpQMjKUrw
Videos
These links were copied from an Art Institute email. Please note that there are other offerings on the right side of the screen that might be of interest.
Monet’s Palette and technique (8.54 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTazf7tH44
David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh (8.12 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA_I0qwnh_w
Mural. Jackson Pollack (40 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY9leqZUMIk