Yale Center for British Art
Events at this venue
Exhibition Opening | Rina Banerjee: Take me, take me, take me . . . to the Palace of love at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New HavenSaturday, February 7, 2026–Sunday, July 26, 2026 Drawing on the iconic form of the Taj Mahal in India, Rina Banerjee’s translucent sculpture subverts typical assumptions about the monument: its costly materials and elegant marble façades, its sense of history and permanence, and its fixed location. In contrast, Banerjee’s palace consists of a frame of steel […]
Exhibition Opening | Going Modern: British Art, 1900–1960 at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New HavenThursday, February 12, 2026–Sunday, August 9, 2026 Twentieth-century Britain saw the emergence of some of the most distinctive and influential artists of modern times, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon. Their work continues to resonate and inspire today, yet “going modern and being British,” as the surrealist landscape painter […]
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850 at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New HavenThursday, January 8, 2026–Sunday, June 21, 2026 This exhibition tells the story of artists from India, Britain, and China who worked in the era of one of the most powerful corporations in history. The British East India Company began in 1600 as a private trading enterprise but grew into a military and political force during […]
