Live Performance
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Art History Lecture: Sonja Drimmer
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut
FREE!
Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and the practice of art history.

Opening Reception for Gary Red Oak O’Neil's Excavations Exhibition
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Gary Red Oak O’Neil presents a solo exhibition of his longstanding ceramic practice, including new works inspired by a current archaeological dig in Glastonbury that unearths work by the Wangunk (the Indigenous people from Middletown and central Connecticut), offering glimpses of the tribe’s interactions with early 17th-century British settlers.

Opening Reception: DFT 2025 Exhibition
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Can evasion, insistence on privacy, and opting out facilitate freedom? Drawing from science fiction, “Dark Forest Theory” (DFT) suggests that civilizations (such as extraterrestrial life) hide in order to preserve themselves. Through a variety of media including sculpture, painting, video, installation, performance, and sound—this group exhibition, featuring an intergenerational group of artists across the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, an online radio station, an online TV station, and a zine explores how this theory, when merged with Black critical theory, creates the possibility for individuals to gain agency through concealment.

B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Vocalist and Adjunct Professor of Music and Global South Asian Studies B. Balasubrahmaniyan will be joined by Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Global South Asian Studies David Nelson PhD ’91 on mrdangam (double-headed drum) for their 21st anniversary Navaratri Festival concert together.