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New Haven Mural Honors Prison Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The community-led artwork also spotlights the city’s continued advocacy for racial and economic justice.
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NXTHVN 2023–2024 Fellowship Applications Now Open
Up to seven artists and two curators will be selected for this paid 10-month intensive, mentorship-driven program in New Haven.
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Eye Contact Fires Up Brain Cells, Yale Study Says
The researchers found that when eyes meet, certain areas of the brain start experiencing “neural firing.”
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Is Touching Sculpture Sexier After Zoom Fatigue?
The sensation of touching isn’t the point. It’s the yearning — heightened during quarantines — that lives on in these sculptures.
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Artists and Curators Can Apply to NXTHVN’s Mentorship-driven Fellowship Program
Each fellow in this 10-month intensive in New Haven, Connecticut, will receive studio or office space, subsidized housing, and a generous stipend.
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A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
Art
What We Can Learn From a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence
John Wilson’s 1952 mural “The Incident,” is a salient meditation on the horrors of lynching and though physically lost, the mural endures in archival images, preliminary sketches, and studies.
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Yale Center for British Art Presents Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement
In this exhibition, radical Victorian artists and designers question industrialization and strive to create a more beautiful, ethical world. On view through May 10.
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The Polymathic Mind of John Ruskin
Ruskin was captivated with more than just art and architecture. He wrote at some length on geology, mythology, crystallography, ornithology, herpetology — and who knows what else.
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Yale Center for British Art Presents Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain
This is the first exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art dedicated exclusively to filmmaking and video art. On view from October 10 to December 29, 2019.
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Yale Center for British Art Presents The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
This is the second exhibition in a series of three curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als. On view at the Yale Center for British Art through December 15, 2019.
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Art Influences One's Sense of Belonging, Says Research by Yale Med Students
A new report suggests that art can play an important role in welcoming women and minority groups into spaces of higher education that have historically excluded them.