Arts, Culture, and Entertainment

  • 9/1 New Exhibit Opens at The Benton

    The doors are open today on this new exhibition
    Dotted Dialogues: Contemporary Indigenous Art from Central Australia

    YOU ARE INVITED TO THE OPENING RECEPTION
    THURSDAY, September 3, 4:30 to 7pm

    This exhibition presents paintings and sculptures that incorporate traditional iconography of the Aboriginal culture and reveal ancestral stories that reconnect indigenous communities with their ancestors, their land, and their heritage, while also sharing it with others. It was curated by the students in the Spring 2015 Anthropological Perspectives in Art class under the direction of Professor Françoise Dussart.

    ALSO ON VIEW
    Speak Up! Speak Out! Bread & Puppet Theater
    Bread & Puppet Theater is the subject of Brother Bread, Sister Puppet, the first in the Benton's OUTDOOR FILM SERIES, showing Wednesday, September 2, 7:30pm. Admission is free. The film series continues September 9 and 16. 

    MUSEUM HOURS: Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 4:30pm / Saturday and Sunday 1 to 4:30pm
    CLOSED LABOR DAY WEEKEND, September 5, 6, and 7

    THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
    University of Connecticut
    School of Fine Art
    245 Glenbrook Road
    Storrs, CT

    Website: www.benton.uconn.edu
    Twitter: @uconn_benton

     

    For more information, contact: The Benton at 860-486-4520