Yale University Art Gallery
Art Opening: The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenSeptember 6, 2024 – January 5, 2025 In an era of sweeping change following the devastation of the Civil War, an ambitious generation of American artists adopted the human figure as their focus. Showcasing more than one hundred studies related to major commissions for the Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, Pennsylvania State Capitol, and other civic […]
Exhibition Opening Lecture: To Live One’s Life as a Work of Art at Yale
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn the closing decades of the 19th century, artists like John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens created drawings and sketches that hearkened back to the Italian Renaissance. The men depicted in these studies exist as descendants of Michelangelo’s muscular figures, while the women have been transformed into spiritualized and ethereal beings. The […]
Exhibition Opening Lecture: Munch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenMunch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety: Exhibition Opening Lecture Jay A. Clarke, the Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago, explores the imagery Munch and Kirchner chose—including depictions of natural beauty, isolation, murder, and lust—as paths to individual and collective expression. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety […]
Design in Dialogue: A Conversation with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn a career that has spanned over 50 years, the renowned graphic designer, public artist, and educator Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (b. 1940, B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A. 1964) has created community-based and politically responsive work that champions principles of advocacy and inclusion. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design, […]
Art Opening: Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenNow through June 23, 2024: Featuring more than 60 works on paper, this exhibition is the first to examine the prints of Edvard Munch alongside those of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, elucidating the fascinating overlaps in their creative output and personal biographies and demonstrating how these artists suffered from—and attempted to cope with—the anxieties of their […]