Day Tripping
Any time of the year is a great time to hit the road and see what鈥檚 happening at local and regional museums, art galleries, and cultural centers. Connecticut’s area museum have websites that are full of event听 calendars and programming information, on-line education, podcasts. online galleries, and virtual tours of their entire museums.听 See below the list of local and regional art locales, and areas of interest to check out on your next visit to Old Lyme and the wonderful state of Connecticut.
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.听 Their 2023 schedule includes films about Hopper, Mary Cassatt and Raphael.听 Click .
Lyme Art Academy, Old Lyme, our neighbor down the street.听 In addition to offering great teaching to young students of art offers some great exhibitions for visitors to the Lyme Old Lyme area.听 Click
Museum of Fine Art,听Boston
www.mfa.org
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain (NARM member)听www.nbmaa.org
Concora, Connecticut Choral Artists, New Britian, CT听
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.听听
Maximum number per tour: 6 people |听听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.听 听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:听 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.听 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听wendysw10s@gmail.com听or 203-386-9125.
Noteworthy Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), NYC
The Frick Collection,听New York City
The Art Institute of Chicago,听Chicago
Philadelphia Museum of Art,听笔丑颈濒补诲别濒辫丑颈补
National Gallery of Art,听Washington DC
罢补迟别,听UK (family of four art galleries)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (free)
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (free)
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (NARM member)
Images & Tours
Google鈥檚 Art & Culture听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.听
Another source for on-line tours is:听
North American Reciprocal Museum (NARM): If you enjoy museum visits, consider joining the North American Reciprocal Museum Association (NARM),听www.narmassociation.org, 听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.听
Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney (1:20 Minutes)听
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鈥檚 Palette and technique (8.54 Minutes)听
David Hockney on Vincent van Gogh (8.12 Minutes)听
Mural. Jackson Pollack (40 Minutes)听