May Will Be a Good Month For Art Lovers to Go to Hartford

Hey lovers of fine art, May 2022 would be a good month for you to take a trip up to Hartford, our Capital City here in Connecticut.

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Well, let me clarify, with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Mark Twain House & Museum, and the nearby New Britain Museum of American Art, the greater Hartford area already has masterworks on display daily, but there's an upcoming exhibition at the Connecticut Convention Center coming up that might get you onto I-84 or I-91 next month.

Michelangelo Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is rolling into the Connecticut Convention Center on Columbus Boulevard in Hartford starting on May5, 2022. The exhibition is going to be different from the "Immersive Van Gogh" exhibits you've seen on your social media news feed, in that the recreation of the masterwork is not projected onto nearby surfaces, rather Michelangelo's 34 frescoes from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City have been photographed, and printed, using special techniques that will allow you to see each brush stroke, up close and supremely detailed. It's a traveling exhibition that will be at the Convention Center until the end of June 2022.

Might I suggest, take a ride around the corner and stop at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at 600 Main Street afterwards, and check out their exhibition of modernist American painter Milton Avery. It's the first retrospective exhibition of Avery's works in over 30 years, with a selection of 60 of his artworks. According to the Wadsworth, Avery grew up in Connecticut, and took his first art classes in Hartford, essentially learning to become an artist while exploring Connecticut.

And while you're on the way back, stop in and take in the New Britain Museum of American Art, which is incredible. The Arts in Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton, The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001 by Graydon Parrish, and the Connecticut Landscape exhibition are all masterpieces that you should see with your own eyes.