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Pictured (L to R): Yanone C by Hiromitsu Takahashi and Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, Your Show of Shows by Victor Keppler, courtesy WestPAC.
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Art Reception: Showtime!, Selections from the Westport Public Art Collections

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Join us for a reception featuring Showtime!, selections collected from the Westport Public Art Collections (WestPAC), with a gallery overview by Ive Covaci, WestPAC chair and professor of art history at Fairfield University. Please register HERE. Pictured (L to R): Yanone C by Hiromitsu Takahashi and Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, Your Show of Shows […]

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Verso University's CT Art Trail Series: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

In celebration of Verso University's exploration of the CT Art Trail, join us on November 15 at 11 am for a presentation about the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Join Cybele Maylone, executive director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, to learn about the institution's long history of groundbreaking exhibitions and about upcoming […]

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Vanished: The 1990 Heist of the Isabella Gardner Museum

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, 13 pieces of art valued at over half a billion dollars were stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston. Included among the works taken by thieves in the night were masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Degas. Join us for a deep dive into the world’s biggest […]

Art Siegel works (L to R): The Scream (2020) and Crumpled (2016)

Art Reception: Norm Siegel, Visual Curiosities

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Join us on in the Trefz Forum for a reception (6-7 pm in the South Gallery) and conversation (7-8 pm in the Trefz Forum) with Norm Siegel to discuss his new exhibit, Visual Curiosities, running in the South Gallery from October 27, 2023, through January 8, 2024. Please register HERE In case you missed the event, […]

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Verso University's CT Art Trail Series: Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

In celebration of Verso University's exploration of the CT Art Trail, join us on December 5, at 11 am, for a presentation about The Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph, located in West Hartford, Connecticut. This event will take place in the Brooks Place program room on the Library's main level. Please register for […]

AMERICAN CHILDHOOD cover image with children blowing gum bubbles
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A Photographic History of American Childhood

Komansky Room, The Westport Library

Register Here Best-selling author Todd Brewster believes America invented childhood, and in his book, American Childhood: A Photographic History, he tells how it was that America became the first nation to see children not merely as “adults in waiting,” but in a separate sphere of life. He uses photographs from archives, flea shops, and other […]

Logo of WestportREADS 2024 with cover of THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel
Event Series Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Higgins Room, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Kids celebrate WestportREADS by honoring the works of great artists: Saturday, January 6 – Leonardo da Vinci & Mona Lisa Portraits Saturday, January 13 – Albrecht Dürer’s Animal Sketches Saturday, January 20 – Georgia O’Keefe’s Landscapes Saturday, January 27 – Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers No registration required. The WestportREADS 2024 selection is The Art Thief […]

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Logo of WestportREADS 2024 with cover of THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel
Event Series Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Higgins Room, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Kids celebrate WestportREADS by honoring the works of great artists: Saturday, January 6 – Leonardo da Vinci & Mona Lisa Portraits Saturday, January 13 – Albrecht Dürer’s Animal Sketches Saturday, January 20 – Georgia O’Keefe’s Landscapes Saturday, January 27 – Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers No registration required. The WestportREADS 2024 selection is The Art Thief […]

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The Pinwheel Galaxy
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Artist Reception and Lecture: ‘How Beautiful, the Universe': Astrophotography by Members of The Westport Astronomical Society

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Reception: 6-7 pm in the Sheffer Gallery Lecture by members of The Westport Astronomical Society: 7-8 pm in the Trefz Forum Discover the wonders that lie just beyond your backyard in How Beautiful, the Universe — an extraordinary art exhibition featuring more than 25 captivating works by members of the Westport Astronomical Society (WAS). Embark on a cosmic journey […]

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Logo of WestportREADS 2024 with cover of THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel
Event Series Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Higgins Room, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Kids celebrate WestportREADS by honoring the works of great artists: Saturday, January 6 – Leonardo da Vinci & Mona Lisa Portraits Saturday, January 13 – Albrecht Dürer’s Animal Sketches Saturday, January 20 – Georgia O’Keefe’s Landscapes Saturday, January 27 – Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers No registration required. The WestportREADS 2024 selection is The Art Thief […]

Free
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Film Screening: WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation

The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Register Here Join us for a screening of the provocative documentary, WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, followed by a talkback with the film's director, James Hussey, as well as producer/editor Tory Jadow. Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by this feature documentary. […]

Logo of WestportREADS 2024 with cover of THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel
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WestportREADS Keynote Conversation: ‘Art Thief’ Author Michael Finkel

The Trefz Forum, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Register Here Michael Finkel, author of the 2024 WestportREADS selection, The Art Thief, joins us live in the Trefz Forum to talk about his book with Ive Covaci, chair of WestPAC. Hear about the true-crime tale of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole, never for money, but for personal treasure and […]

Logo of WestportREADS 2024 with cover of THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel
Event Series Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Artful Saturdays: Celebrating WestportREADS for Kids

Higgins Room, The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Kids celebrate WestportREADS by honoring the works of great artists: Saturday, January 6 – Leonardo da Vinci & Mona Lisa Portraits Saturday, January 13 – Albrecht Dürer’s Animal Sketches Saturday, January 20 – Georgia O’Keefe’s Landscapes Saturday, January 27 – Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers No registration required. The WestportREADS 2024 selection is The Art Thief […]

Free
Yale University Art Gallery, CT Art Trail
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Verso University's CT Art Trail Series: Yale University Art Gallery: Munch/Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

Komansky Room, The Westport Library

In celebration of Verso University's exploration of the CT Art Trail, join us on January 31 at 11 am for a presentation from the Yale University Art Gallery. The talk will focus on the exhibit "Munch/Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression"  by Freyda Spira, the Gallery's Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings.

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Artist Reception and Talk: Lucy Krupenye, ‘Zen Meditations’

The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT, United States

Award-winning sculptor Lucy M. Krupenye, whose Zen Meditations will be on display at the Library from January 12 through March 12, will be in conversation with Miggs Burroughs. There will be a reception held in the South Gallery from 6 to 7 pm, followed by a talk in the Trefz Forum from 7 to 8 pm. […]

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