Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesCrafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800 examines the inseparable relationship among art, science, and European colonialism from the 16th through the 18th century—an era of voyage, trade, and Europe’s territorial dominance on a global scale. The objects featured in this multidisciplinary exhibition cross the modern-day boundaries of art and science and range from the […]
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesThinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale explores an intriguing selection of objects from the 17th-century Netherlands that were designed to elicit slow, intimate, and contemplative engagement on the part of their original audiences. This student-curated exhibition features small-scale works in various media drawn from the rich holdings of the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections across […]
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesIn a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art presents a selection of YCBA artworks in the Yale University Art Gallery’s Louis Kahn building while the YCBA’s own iconic Kahn building is closed for its next phase of conservation. The nearly sixty works on view span four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions. Highlights include Joseph […]
Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesMickalene Thomas (b. 1971, M.F.A. 2002) has gained an international reputation for her dazzling paintings and photographs of Black women posed in lushly decorated interiors, as well as for her similarly styled, immersive installations. In Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space, the artist designs an entirely new multigallery installation, imagining domestic surroundings reminiscent […]
Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesMickalene Thomas (b. 1971, M.F.A. 2002) has gained an international reputation for her dazzling paintings and photographs of Black women posed in lushly decorated interiors, as well as for her similarly styled, immersive installations. In Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space, the artist designs an entirely new multigallery installation, imagining domestic surroundings reminiscent of […]