http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/section.cfm?uid=52 Copyright 2009 New Haven Advocate TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15529 Alexander Calder: Printmaker Through Jan. 31, 2010. Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich. 203-869-0376, brucemuseum.org . Kinetic mobiles and energy-arresting stabiles define Alexander Calder (1898-1976). But paper and ink were his first love. The Bruce Museum's Alexander Calder: Printmaker... By Susan Hood http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15529 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15530 Don Barkin, That Dark Lake 7 p.m., Nov. 20. Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com . The pervasive feel of Connecticut poet Don Barkin's first collection of poems, That Dark Lake (2009, Antrim House, located in Tarriffville, Conn.) is of a life lived... By Donald Brown http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15530 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15538 Vanessa Hidary, spoken-word poet With live music, martini bars and multimedia entertainment. 7:30 p.m., Nov. 21. Jewish Community Center, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge. $54. 203-387-2424, jccnh.org .   The moment a Jewish couple gives birth to a son, a new prayer gets added to the trio on... By Laura Gottesdiener http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15538 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15540 The Postwar Avant-Garde and the Culture of Protest, 1945 to 1968 and Beyond Ends Dec. 19. Beinecke Library, Yale University, 121 Wall St. Free. 203-432-2977, library.yale.edu/beinecke . Were the revolutions of the 1960s — and 1968 in particular — just a dream (or nightmare, if you... By Hank Hoffman http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15540 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:00 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15541 Rembrandt's People Through Jan. 24. Wadsworth Athenuem Museum of Art, 600 Main St., Hartford. 860-278-2670, wadsworthatheneum.org . Asmall yet choice selection of portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The seven original works and... By Susan Hood http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15541 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 4:18:03 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15480 Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family Part of Yale Law and Divinity School’s “Faith and Arms in a Democratic Society: A Working Conference on Religion in the Military.” 12:45 p.m., Nov. 14. Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Free and open to the public. yale.edu/divinity... By Laura Gottesdiener http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15480 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:18:55 AM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15478 Michael Goldfarb, Emancipation: How Liberating the Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance 3 p.m., Nov. 15. University Commons, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave., Fairfield. $3 suggested donation. Reservations required. wshu.org . A native New Yorker who has lived in London... By Anna Beth Keim http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15478 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 3:52:02 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15437 Tracy Kidder, Strength of What Remains 7 p.m., Nov. 18. Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. Free. Reservations required. wshu.org . His name, in Latin, means "Thanks be to God." In 1994, when 22-year-old Deogratias stepped off the plane at Kennedy Airport, he was a medical student... By Jon Santiago http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15437 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 3:52:02 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15438 Natasha Trethewey 4 p.m., Nov. 18. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 121 Wall St. Free. 203-432-2977, library.yale.edu/beinecke. In Native Guard , Natasha Trethewey's 2007 Pulitzer prize-winning volume of poetry, the poetic voice is formal, concise, deliberative.... By Donald Brown http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15438 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 3:52:02 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15439 Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messenger? Nov. 13-14. Yale Law School, Yale University, 127 Wall St. $75. 203-432-4992, law.yale.edu . A small but vocal set of critics claims that, lately, journalists are writing too much about journalism. But are journalists conferencing... By Craig Fehrman http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15439