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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

NEWS

In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art opens March 24.

More than 60 works of art from the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) will be on view in the Gallery’s Louis Kahn building while the YCBA’s own iconic Kahn building is closed for its next phase of conservation. In a New Light spans four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, with works by John Constable, Angelica Kauffman, George Stubbs, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others. Come see these works in a new setting and in a new light. On view from March 24 through December 3, 2023. Learn more.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

March at the Gallery

Join us to engage with art and with our community. Visit our calendar for a complete list of upcoming events and more information about those listed below.  

Although we have reduced programming for two weeks this month during Spring Recess, the Gallery remains open with regular hours. We invite you to visit our permanent collections as well as three special exhibitions: in addition to In a New LightCrafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800 and Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale are also on view. 


We look forward to a full roster of programming next month.

VIRTUAL PROGRAM, E-CONVERSATION 

Systematic Thinking

Wednesday, March 1, 12:30 pm EST
Join the cocurators of the permanent-collection installation Systematic Thinking, fellows Danielle Raad and Yechen Zhao, for a discussion of photographers’ engagement with mathematics, intellectual property, and scientific observation.
Learn more.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Teen Program  

Wednesdays, 3:00 pm
Teens ages 13–19 are invited to bring friends to the Gallery, explore the museum’s diverse collection, and make art on the following dates: 

Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

VIRTUAL PROGRAM, EDUCATOR WORKSHOP

Teacher Leadership Program

Thursday, March 2, 4:00 pm EST
This one-hour program on Zoom invites educators to explore innovative ways to connect their curricula with the Gallery’s collection. Sessions also include strategies for teaching with art in person and on virtual platforms. Learn more.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM, PERFORMANCE

Gallery+Tangled Up in Blue 

Thursday, March 2, 5:30 pm 
Join us for a live performance by Yale’s premier American folk-singing group. Learn more.
 

 

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Furniture Study Highlights Tour 

Friday, March 3, 12:30 pm 
Visit Yale West Campus for a one-hour, in-person tour through three centuries of American furniture at the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center. Learn more.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Highlights Tour

Saturday, March 4, 1:30 pm
Join our undergraduate guides for an interactive tour of the Gallery’s history, architecture, and global collection. Learn more.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM, FAMILY PROGRAM

Stories and Art

Sunday, March 5, 1:00 pm
We invite families to join us for folktales, myths, and exciting stories from around the world that highlight unique features of objects in the collection and inspire children of all ages to view art in new ways.
Learn more.

 

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Highlights Tour

Sunday, March 5, 1:30 pm
Join our undergraduate guides for an interactive tour of the Gallery’s history, architecture, and global collection. Learn more.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Furniture Study Highlights Tour 

Friday, March 31, 12:30 pm 
Visit Yale West Campus for a one-hour, in-person tour through three centuries of American furniture at the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center. Learn more.

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

E-Gallery Talks

Enjoy these object-focused talks by the student curators of Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale, an exhibition featuring works from the 17th-century Netherlands that were designed to elicit slow, intimate, and contemplative engagement on the part of their original audiences.

In this short video, Joyce Yusi Zhou, Ph.D. student in the History of Art, examines a 17th-century “screw thaler,” a coin that twists open to reveal remarkable miniature portraits of a Dutch couple.
 

In this short video, Renata Nagy, Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art, addresses the Dutch naturalist Johannes Goedaert’s illustrations of insects in his Metamorphosis naturalis . . . (1662–69).


 

In this short video, Adam Chen,
TD ’23, B.A. and M.A. candidate in the History of Art, addresses Jan Bellekin’s Nautilus Cup (ca. 1660).

In this short video, Ekaterina Koposova, Ph.D. student in the History of Art, addresses Willem van de Velde the Elder’s Brederode off Vlieland (1645).

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Images:  Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, 1818. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Mel Bochner, 12 Photographs and 4 Diagrams (N+1 Center Sets), 1966–67, printed 1999. Gelatin silver prints. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. Courtesy of the artist Teen program artwork in the Richard Barnhart Classroom, Yale University Art Gallery, 2015 A training session for Wurtele Gallery Teachers held in the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Galleries, Yale University Art Gallery, 2021 | Tangled Up in Blue, spring tour 2022. Photo courtesy Burke Griggs | View of case furniture in the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center from the mezzanine level | Gallery Guide Tim Yuen Lingk, SM ’25, leads a Highlights Tour in front of the painting APB’s (Afro-Parisian Brothers) (1978) by Barkley L. Hendricks, B.F.A. and M.F.A. 1972 | Stories and Art program in the Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Gallery of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery, 2018 Gallery Guide Tim Yuen Lingk, SM ’25, leads a Highlights Tour in front of the painting APB’s (Afro-Parisian Brothers) (1978) by Barkley L. Hendricks, B.F.A. and M.F.A. 1972 | View of case furniture in the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center from the mezzanine level | Amsterdam School, “Schroefdaalder” (Screw Thaler) with a Double Portrait of Hendrick Hudde and Anna Roch, ca. 1648. Oil on silver. The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. Photo courtesy Marisa Bass Johannes Goedaert, author and etcher, Metamorphosis naturalis . . . , vol. 1, 1662. Book with hand-colored etchings. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of George S. Abrams in memory of Charlotte and Arthur Vershbow Jan Bellekin, Nautilus Cup, ca. 1660. Engraved shell with silver-gilt mount. Yale University Art Gallery, Marion M. Kemp Fund in memory of her brother, Arthur T. Kemp, B.S. 1894 Willem van de Velde the Elder, The Brederode off Vlieland, ca. 1645. Pen painting on panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art