Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street; 860-278-2670
Pop to the Present
Featuring major works from the Atheneum’s extensive collections, this exhibition will examine the multiple avenues of artistic exploration from the 1960s to the present. With the explosion of new modes of representation and new artistic, social, and political concerns that became central to the language of art during this time, Pop to the Present celebrates the amazing varieties of form that proliferated during the last third of the twentieth century and that continue into our own time. Friday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Performing Arts
Hartford Symphony Orchestra, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Avenue; 860-244-2999
The final Masterworks concert of the season features Music Conductor Edward Cumming leading the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Hartford Chorale with members of CONCORA through a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis". Friday and Saturday: 8:00 p.m

Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, Hartford; 860-527-5151
The Milk Train Doesn’t stop Here Anymore
Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis returns in the tenth installment of the Tennessee Williams Marathon as the aging beauty queen and society maven Flora Goforth, whose final days dictating her memoirs in her Italian villa are disrupted by the mysterious arrival of a beautiful young poet. Does he offer one last chance for love and salvation, or is he the Angel of Death? By Tennessee Williams and directed by Michael Wilson.  Friday and Saturday: 8:00 p.m; and Sunday: 2:00 and 7:30 p.m.