The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri fled the Taliban as a child. Her new museum show reclaims space for women with colorful textile works.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum looks back at a 1971 exhibition devoted to women and puts their work in conversation with emerging feminist artists.

Duane Slick deploys his canine friend in a thrilling show. For the 60-year-old artist and professor, this first museum solo is long overdue.

An interview with the mystically inclined artist, who shares the interests of Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.

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Using plastic to paint, draw connections, and ask questions.

Read about Lucia Hierro's work in Sculpture Magazine.

Lucia Hierro takes us on a Polaroid tour of her native New York including spots in Washington Heights, the Bronx and Brooklyn where she is currently based.

A lone plastic shopping bag, plucked by the breeze, floats gracefully down the street. It is the “muse” of Lucia Hierro, who, although foremost an academic, is also a conceptual artist.

Artist Hugo McCloud’s first solo museum show spotlights his creative turns.

With summer on the horizon after a long pandemic winter, museums are throwing their doors open to tell every kind of story.

During the pandemic, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, has been experimenting with ways to bring art out of its white galleries, and into homes within the local community.

The 84-year-old abstract artist's giant star sculptures, now on display in Connecticut, exhibit a life of their own.

A world without art would be a gloomy and dreary place and while art lovers can visit some museums or take a virtual stroll through exhibitions, the COVID-19 pandemic has distanced many not just from their social circles but also from art.

An exhibition in Connecticut unites two dozen works featuring a single motif, reaffirming the restlessness of this painter’s progress.

Two years ago, when The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, set about its exhibition planning for 2020, an obvious event to address was the US election.

Rudy Shepherd’s Somebody’s Child paints the portraits of victims in an effort to celebrate their humanity and mourn the loss of life.

In Genesis Belanger’s exhibition Through the Eye of a Needle, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, death is an expected, albeit uninvited, guest, at home in the affluent domiciles orchestrated here through tableaux and mise-en-scène.

Twenty Twenty's 71 works are by only seven artists, who in late 2019 were asked to capture 2020 with drawings they based on photographic images.

“Twenty Twenty,” an exhibit that documents and responds to the 2020 election season.