Mar 16 Sunday
An entire town is plunged into chaos as it frantically hides its grift and incompetence from the prying eyes of an undercover inspector. But the cons are about to get conned: the mysterious stranger accepting every bauble, coin, and advance thrown his way is not who he seems to be. Everyone is on the take–or the make–in this outrageously anarchic comedy of errors. Yura Kordonsky’s adaptation of Gogol’s timeless masterpiece, The Inspector, is both the moving drama of a community desperate for a better life and a farce exposing the absurd lengths to which they go in its pursuit.
Mar 17 Monday
This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.
The Museum is open Tues-Sat, 11am-4pm, Thurs 11am-8pm.
About the Exhibition: Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Fall 2025.
The Museum is open Tues-Sat, 11am- 4 pm, Thurs 11am-8pm.
Mar 18 Tuesday
Mar 19 Wednesday
During the American Revolution, when a merchant was holding back a supply of sugar that should have gone to the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, 20 women formed what was termed “an infantry,” and stormed the merchant’s warehouse. They got the sugar with no interference from the law. Historian and publisher Dr. Katherine Hermes will present this and other fascinating histories of women in the Revolution during, “Working for the Revolution: Connecticut’s Patriot Women” at the New Haven Museum (NHM), on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 6 p.m. Register for the free NH250 event here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/working-for-the-revolution-connecticuts-pa-tickets-205114
“Working for the Revolution: Patriot Women’s Lives During the War” will explore how women contributed to the American Revolutionary effort politically, economically, intellectually, and even militarily. Using original sources including newspapers, court records, letters, and pension records, Hermes will show how Indigenous, Anglo-European, and African-descended women all helped to further the Patriot cause.