NBMAA First Friday to Feature “Brian McDonald Group”

The New Britain Museum of American Art has announced that its October First Friday is to feature the, “Brian McDonald Group.”

The Museum says that First Friday is its, “signature social event, featuring live music, art, food, spirits, and good friends.”

It is, “New Britain’s best Happy Hour, since 1995!,” the Museum says.

The first Friday of October just happens to be the first day of October. The event will be October 1, 2021, from 5:30pm to 8:00pm.

The “Brian McDonald Group” is to perform at the October edition of the monthly event.

Tickets for the event are $7 for members of the Museum and $12 for non-members, and are available through the Museum’s website.

“Tickets to each First Friday are limited to 250 guests,” the Museum says, noting that tickets to this event, “must be purchased in advance.”

A world-class art museum in the heart of New Britain, the New Britain Museum of American Art says that its,

collection represents over three centuries of the major artists and movements of American art. Today it contains over 8,400 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, and photographs.

Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, Hudson River School landscapes, and American Impressionists. Strengths of the twentieth-century collection include works by members of the Ashcan School; significant representation by early Modernists; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting, including Thomas Hart Benton’s celebrated five-panel mural, “The Arts of Life in America” (1932).

Post-war highlights also include examples of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Op art, Conceptual art, and more. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to capture the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.

The New Britain Museum of American Art sits alongside New Britain’s historic Walnut Hill Park, at 56 Lexington Street.