Compass A&E

If there exists a clear visual pipeline from the prestige art exhibitions of New York to the smaller galleries in Litchfield County, Conn., look no further than “Women,” the show currently on display at Craven Contemporary in Kent, Conn., featuring female portraits by Alex Katz, in time with the artist’s massive installation currently at The Gug

If anyone knows where the best martini in The Berkshires is, they will have to write in.

The youngest gallerina in the Connecticut countryside is Ellie Wolgemuth, a sophomore at Housatonic Valley Regional High School who is heading the public school’s library art installation as lead intern.

At the end of the summer of 2012 the Arts and Culture Commission for the city of Torrington, Conn., announced that the pop-up gallery that had gone up in a vacant downtown retail building would become a permanent fixture.

For 75 cents in depression-era New York City, Harlem residents could escape to life on the mahogany dance floor of the Savoy Ballroom, which stretched across a city block between 140th Street and 141st Street.

The fingerpicking technique in jazz, that unique sound that vibrates from ditching the pick in favor of bare skin thumbs or even fingernails on the taut strings, has been used by plenty of legendary jazz guitarists — just look to Joe Pass’s rendition of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” the 1929 early swing song that originated in Harlem.

The mellow tingling that pulsates with an unprovoked, weightless euphoria has arrived. The wooden leg of my desk brushes against my leg — or did my leg brush against the desk’s leg — and I am in a brief fit of laughter. I am high on a piece of art I purchased at Standard Space, a contemporary gallery in Sharon, Conn.

It is with some irony to note that despite the controlling school years calendars — the ebb and flow of semesters, sports and winter break — during which most 21st century girls consume with some fervor the works of Jane Austen, the 19th century author of landed gentry romances scarcely replied upon the seasons for setting.