Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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Saturday September 21 2:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong Film Series | “Peppermint Candy” (1999)
$12; $10 seniors and students with ID; $8 members and Hartford residents. Museum admission not included. Yongho stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Moving backward in time, this film rewinds the protagonist’s loss of huma......More
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Saturday September 21 7:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong Film Series | “Oasis” (2002)
$12; $10 seniors and students with ID; $8 members and Hartford residents. Museum admission not included. Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju, the handicapped daughter of the victim of his hit-and-run accident. Their improbable rel......More
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Sunday September 22 2:00pm EDT
The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong Film Series | “Poetry” (2010)
$12; $10 seniors and students with ID; $8 members and Hartford residents. Museum admission not included. Yang Mi-ja, a 66-year-old grandmother with early Alzheimer’s, meets a woman grieving for her young daughter. When her own family is implicated in the girl’s deat......More
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Friday September 27 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Behind the Scenes for Members | Belle da Costa Greene in the Wadsworth Archives
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the personal librarian for J. Pierpont Morgan and J. P. Morgan Jr., played an integral role in transferring hundreds of books and artworks to the Wadsworth Atheneum. She became the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. As a......More
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Saturday September 28 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Avery 90 Gallery Talk | “Art and Dance” with Emily Coates & Adam Lenz
Since the 1930s, the Wadsworth has presented dance as an important art form alongside the visual arts. Choreographer Emily Coates and museum educator Adam Lenz explore artworks on view from the museum’s collection connected to important figures in the Wadsworth’s dan......More
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Saturday September 28 5:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Film | The 43rd Asbury Short Film Concert
$12; $10 seniors and students with ID; $8 members and Hartford residents. Museum admission not included. See a curated selection of internationally acclaimed and award-winning short cinema across dramatic, comedic, and animated works from seasoned filmmakers and eme......More
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Thursday October 3 5:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
First Thursdays: Spatial Relations
Escape into art with a new experience every month! Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more! Hear Conway Campbell’s smooth jazz sounds. Pick up a pencil and draw what you see in the galleries. Catch the opening of MATRIX 195 with an artist conversation (see bottom lef......More
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Thursday October 3 6:00pm EDT
Artist Conversation: “Alan Ruiz / MATRIX 195 / Risk Management” with Alan Ruiz, Soyoung Yoon, and Jared Quinton
5pm gallery viewing, 6pm conversation Artist Alan Ruiz invites viewers to consider changing ideas of museum architecture and self-image in Hartford and around the world. Soyoung Yoon, art historian and program director of art history and visual studies at The New Sch......More
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Thursday October 3 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Public Program: Finances with Phillip
Phillip Albert, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture’s chief of advancement and finance officer, leads conversations about building economic sustainability, understanding financial aid for college students, and leveraging personal accounting skills for better budgeting......More
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Thursday October 10 6:00pm EDT
Public Lecture | Pearl Drops and Blackamoors: The Black Body and Pearlescent Adornment in European Art with Adrienne L. Childs
5pm gallery viewing | 6pm lecture | Free European artists of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries often depicted Black figures wearing pearl ornaments. The contrast evoked notions of luxury, distant lands, and exoticism. Art historian and curator Adrienne L.......More
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Friday October 11 2:00pm EDT
Film: Eureka (2023)
October 11–13 | 2pm Friday & Sunday, 7pm Saturday Grizzled gunslinger Murphy (Viggo Mortensen) is on a q......More