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.
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The Yale Center for British Art Presents the First North American Survey of Work by Eileen Hogan
Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies examines her artistic process and feature sketchbooks alongside finished paintings. On view at the Yale Center for British Art from May 9 to August 11.
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Visit the Yale School of Art’s 2019 MFA Open Studios, April 6 – 7
Studios are open to the public and located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven.
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Yale Center for British Art Presents George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field
The exhibition features nearly seventy paintings, more than sixty drawings, as well as several new works.
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Placing Pieces of Local History in an Empty Marcel Breuer Building
Tom Burr’s installations bring together past and present in a famous Brutalist building in New Haven.
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As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect’s Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate
Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn’s Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unveiling of his Four Freedoms Park in New York.
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Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit Art Space’s Home Out from Under It
After supporting and promoting local artists’ work for over 54 years, a nonprofit contemporary art center in a converted Elizabethan-style home in New Haven, Connecticut, will likely shut down this week.