May 24, 2013
Many artists create as a way of exploring the mystical realm, inviting the viewer to contemplate or linger on the image. Susan L. Talbott, Director and CEO, investigates art with spiritual associations ranging from Caravaggio to Bill Viola’s Ascension (2000) that search for meaning through visual form.
As part of Aetna Arts Week, this gallery talk is free.
The Greater Hartford Arts Council invites you to “Feel Your ART Beat” during Aetna Arts Week, a week-long celebration of the arts in and around Hartford, from May 19 to 24. Presented by the Arts Council and sponsored by Aetna, take pART in free and low-cost community arts activities hosted by local arts and heritage and organizations who receive essential United Arts funding. For a full line-up of events, check out FeelYourArtBeat.org.
June 13, 2013
Collection Focus Talks
Join a docent at 12 pm for a 20-minute exploration of one work of art in the exhibition. Free with admission.
Thursday, June 13: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628
June 16, 2013
June 16, 3 and 5pm
Lecture and Concert: Venit lumen: Music in the Age of Caravaggio
Eric Rice, Artistic Director, Connecticut Early Music Festival/ Associate Professor of Music, University of Connecticut, will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 3pm on the ways the Caravaggisti and musicians of the Baroque era shaped their works using drama and contrast. Lecture is free and open to the public.
The Connecticut Early Music Ensemble will perform music of the Baroque era in the museum’s Morgan Great Hall at 5pm, featuring sacred and secular music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Gesualdo, Marenzio, Monteverdi, and others. $30/$25 Members: (860) 439-2787 (Tickets required for concert only).
This program is sponsored by the Connecticut Early Music Society as part of the Connecticut Early Music Festival.
June 29, 2013
Collection Focus Talk
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Madame Renoir, c. 1910
Join a docent for a 20-minute exploration of one work of art in the collection. Free with museum admission. Meet by the Museum Shop.
June 30, 2013
Collection Focus Talk
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Madame Renoir, c. 1910
Join a docent for a 20-minute exploration of one work of art in the collection. Free with museum admission. Meet by the Museum Shop.
