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Yale Center for British Art Reopens With a Lesson About Empires
As the nation’s institutions are attacked from within, the Louis Kahn-designed museum marks its return with works by JMW Turner, Tracey Emin, and more.
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The Yale Center for British Art Presents a Special Online Film Exhibition
All four films featured in Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions can be viewed exclusively on the center's website from June 21 through August 23.
Art
Henry Moore, Bill Brandt, and Where They Intersect
Throwing together a sculptor and photographer and hoping for a spark.
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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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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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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.
Art
Rediscovering a Lost 17th-Century Wunderkammer and Its Treasures
At the Yale Center for British Art, treasures from a lost 17th-century wunderkammer are reunited with a painting of its wonders.
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The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
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Yale's Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."