Art Thoughts // Fast Track by Tony Falcone (Lost in New Haven)
If you have ever been through New Haven, Connecticut on the highway where 95 turns to 91, you have likely been by and seen Sports Haven, which had been active with this giant mural from 1995 to just last November. Now, as the business is gone, the city has decided that very soon the process of demolishing Sports Haven is set to begin. For all of the times that I've not only driven by Sports Haven myself but seen it from the highway in my youth in a car with my parents and such, I just think of it as being such a landmark that it should be too historical to be destroyed. Thursday night, August 13, 2026, many members of the art community and just people who enjoy came together for the closing reception of "Fast Track" an exhibit by Tony Falcone, who painted that giant mural on Sports Haven. For all of the times that I had seen those horse, I never really thought about how they got there. But the process itself was so many different steps and ...
