May 1, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - Overton’s approach to the exhibition process is a combination of research and on-site decision making. For The Aldrich, she has created thirteen site-reactive sculptures and a video, presented inside the galleries, in the Sculpture Garden, and on the roofline. Each informs the other as the works reverberate throughout the building and boomerang out onto the g...

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May 1, 2016 -  February 5, 2017 - Liversidge wrote sixty proposals for The Aldrich (all of the typescripts are included in the exhibition), and twenty-three have been chosen for realization, guided by the concept of connecting the interior of The Aldrich Museum with both the surrounding landscape and the community. These include working with the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the town&rsqu...

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May 8 - June 5, 2016 - This exhibition features the work of Waterbury’s finest K-12 artists enrolled in Waterbury Public Schools. The works on view include a variety of media and have been made at various Waterbury public schools throughout the year.

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May 11 -  August 21, 2016 - This exhibition aims to offer a richer understanding of Pritzker’s collecting style while highlighting developments in the work of notable modern British artists.  These paintings depict the eerie emptiness of seaside and rural scenes and the isolated figure in which this artist, famous for crowd scenes, became interested later in his career. The exhib...

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May 11 -  August 14, 2016 - This exhibition offers a glimpse of the lost architecture of preindustrial London, as captured in a series of carbon photoprints commissioned between 1875 and 1886 by the short-lived Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London. Intended as a permanent pictorial archive of buildings under threat of demolition, the photographs document ramshackle coaching inns...

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Electric Paris is the first exhibition to explore the ways in which artists depicted older oil and gas lamps and the newer electric lighting that emerged by the turn of the twentieth century. The show will feature some 50 to 60 works––paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings. On view during most of its run in conjunction with a complementary exhibition in the Science Gallery. ...

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The exhibition also highlights the applications and uses of electricity, how electricity gets into your home, sustainability, and safety.  Electricity brings the science and history of electricity to life through engaging interactives including Plasma Tubes, Jumping Rings, Solenoid, and Jacob's Ladder.  Visitors will learn the fundamental principles behind electricity such as ma...

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May 20 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition celebrates the significance and beauty of ancient Andean textiles, demonstrating the spectrum of their designs and functions. It features exceptional loans from private collections, including tunics, mantles, and wall hangings, as well as related feather, gold, and silver ornaments; weaving implements; and ceramic vessels. Characterized by graphically ...

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May 20 - August 28, 2016 - Through a selection of sculptures, prints, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and medals, this exhibition explores the relationship between art and power in 16th-century France. Together, the artworks reflect the preferences of the cultured, aristocratic figures of the day the “goût du prince,” or “taste of the prince” and highlight the enduring ...

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June 3 – September 6, 2016 - Elizabeth MacDonald’s installation of ceramic panels fills the walls of the Courtyard. Her intriguing large-scale tiles with their earth-toned layers and striations are inspired by her travels to archaeological and ancient sites where architectural ruins instigate her work which demonstrate the passage of time.

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