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Lectures and Talks

Our free Public Lecture Series takes place in the museum's Aetna Theater. Entrance for lectures is through the Avery door on Atheneum Square North.

Docent Memorial Lecture
October 28, 6pm

Artist Talk by Pepon Osorio

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Phoenix Art After Hours

Enjoy a drink with friends, activities & art! $5/Free for members and Phoenix employees

Cirque du Wadsworth
July 1, 5-8 pm

Rise Up
August 5, 5-8 pm

The Upholstered Woman
September 2, 5-8 pm

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Music

Sunday Serenades: Chamber Music at the Atheneum

Surround yourself with art and music from across the centuries! Presented in collaboration with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra under the Artistic Direction of HSO Concertmaster Leonid Sigal. Programs take inspiration from one of the museum’s special exhibitions.

American Moderns
October 24, 2pm

Leonard Bernstein, Clarinet Sonata
Elliott Carter, 4 Lauds
Béla Bartók, Contrasts
Aaron Copland (arr. Bryan Stanley), Appalachian Spring Suite for Violin & Piano
Igor Stravinsky, L’Histoire du Soldat Suite

Water Lilies
February 20, 2011, 2pm

Leonid Sigal, Violin

Albert Roussel, String Trio
Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata
Erik Satie, Choses Vues á Droite et á Gauche
Lili Boulanger, Deux Morceaux: Nocturne et Courtège
Gabriel Fauré, Piano Quartet No. 2

Paris to Buenos Aires
April 10, 2011, 2pm

Leonid Sigal, Violin

Astor Piazzolla, Le Grand Tango
Alberto Ginastera, Pampeana No.1
André Previn, Tango Song & Dance
Astor Piazzolla, Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

Tickets on sale through HSO Ticket Services, (860) 244-2999 (9 am-5 pm, Monday-Friday) or online.

Click here for a printable subscription form.


The Sunday Serenades Series is sponsored, in part, by the Helen M. Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

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Gallery Talks and Tours

The Dana Engstrom DeLoach Friday Gallery Talk Program
Free with museum admission. Meet in Main Lobby, 12 noon.

Toothpicks and Toilets: Materials in Art
June 18

Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Educator for Adult Audiences

Sol LeWitt
July 16, 12pm

Join us to hear Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, discuss the works of artist Sol LeWitt.

Sleek and Sturdy: Modern Furniture in the Collection
August 20, 12 pm

Join us to hear Alyce Englund, Curatorial Fellow, Department of American Decorative Arts, discuss exemplary items in our collection of furniture.

Art in Focus
Got 20 minutes? Drop in every Thursday and Last Saturday for an investigation of one work of art.
Free with museum admission. Meet in Main Lobby, 12 noon

June: Art in 3D
June 3-Tara Donovan, Untitled (Toothpicks), 2004
June 10-Martin Puryear, Kiruna, 1982
June 17-Alan Sonfist, Running Dead Animal, 1972
June 24-Robert Rohm, Rope Piece, 1970
June 26-Alexander Calder, The Praying Mantis, 1936

July: Looking at Line
July 1: Barnett Newman, Onement II, 1948
July 8: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #8 and #9 (A Six-part serial drawing using all two-part combinations of lines in four directions, placed in rows of three within a rectangle), 1969/1996
July 15: Robert Ryman, Winsor, 1966
July 22: Sol LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cube 6/19, 1974
July 29: Cleve Gray, Approach, 1968
July 31: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1131 Whirls and Twirls, 2004

August: Jazz-Inspired
August 5: Herbert Gentry, Confrontation, 1987
August 12: Norman Lewis, Green Mist, 1949
August 19: Victor Schreckengost, Jazz Bowl, c. 1920s
August 26: Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960
August 28: Radcliffe Bailey, Storm at Sea, 2007

Public Tours
Tours meet in the Main Lobby and are free with museum admission.

Museum Highlights Tours
Wednesdays through Sundays, 1pm

Special Exhibition and Collection Tours
Saturdays and Sundays, 2:30pm

August: High Water Marks: Art & Renewal After Katrina
September: Hudson River School Masterworks
October: American Moderns on Paper
November: American Moderns on Paper
December: American Moderns on Paper

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Group Tours

Book a tour today!
For more information and to book a tour, call 860.838.4046. Please call at least three weeks in advance to book your group’s visit.

Visit the Austin House

The Austin House, the former home of A. Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s director from 1927 to 1944, is a National Historic Landmark. The director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art invites all who make a modest contribution to the Sarah Goodwin Austin Memorial Fund to visit the home on select Thursdays by appointment. For information, call 860.838.4046.

Verbal Imaging Tours for Blind and Low-Vision Visitors
Specially trained docents provide tours for blind or partially-sighted adults, exploring the permanent collections and special exhibitions through detailed descriptions of works of art. Service animals are welcome. To schedule a tour, call 860.838.4046.

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