Tony FalconePechaKuchaLost in New Haven80 Hamilton St.July 23, 2026 “I started painting murals before I was an artist”: Falcone takes his turn Thursday night. Credit: Judy Lee Photo JoAnne and Matt Wilcox, PechaKucha organizers and hosts, after the show. Credit: Judy Lee Photo Most of the murals Tony Falcone has painted over his 52-year long career have been lost. Some were found. He talked about that for six minutes and 40 seconds Thursday night at Lost in New Haven. Falcone was at the Wallace Street history museum and cultural hub taking a turn presenting at New Haven’s 45th PechaKucha. He talked the crowd through a 20-image slide show, with each image auto-advancing after 20 seconds. “We can stop the slides,” said emcee and co-organizer Matt Wilcox. “But we won’t.” Falcone’s noted works include “Fast Track,” of a start-to-finish horse race on the curved walls of the former Sports Haven building. “One of the horses was 90 feet long, and the building’s 100 feet high,” Falcone noted. Numbers are hard to fathom, but there was a photo of him for scale, clearly shorter than a horse’s snout and his head smaller than its eye. “And guess what? Pretty soon that’s going to be lost.” But not completely: Lost in New Haven was concurrently featuring an exhibit Thursday night centered on Falcone’s “Fast Track.” It includes sketches, a model of the building with the mural laid on top, and Falcone’s tools, like his harness and paint brushes. The former Sports Haven building is slated for demolition after being vacated by the leaseholder Winners last year. People contacted Robert Greenberg, founder of Lost in New Haven, for help about the mural. He stepped in to create the “Fast Track” exhibit. Falcone saved all of his sketches and photos from 1995. Credit: Judy Lee Photo “In my world, everything is about timing,” said Greenberg, who has spent decades rescuing pieces of New Haven history from demolition sites. He said that he and Falcone had already accepted that there was “no way to save the entire mural, because it’s round.” But with the preservation of few fragments, the public could continue to celebrate the mural in one place. Greenberg and Falcone likened the project to the preservation of Pompeii, and how we all innately understood the power of seeing even a single piece of a legendary past. Falcone talked about how he has reacted to losing work to demolition over the years: Painting murals is in his blood, so he kept going. He had worked hard and long enough to secure a trusted collaborator like Greenberg. Thursday’s presentation and exhibit were ultimately about celebration. The post Falcone’s Fragments, Found In New Haven appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less