Exhibition Opening Lecture: Munch and Kirchner: Expressions of Anxiety

Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven

Munch 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 Haven

In 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 Haven

Now 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 […]