Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
In the entrance court of the Yale Center for British Art, three monks garbed in white, heavy drapery fabric and white wig caps each carry a square plastic tub of 180 individually wrapped Twizzlers. Each methodically draws one Twizzler at a time from their tub and stoops down to place it on the ground, arranging it in a series of concentric rings to create a circular...
Orientalism isn’t a dirty word anymore. The Yale Center for British Art’s (BAC) two new exhibits, “The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830-1925,” and “Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600-1830,” lay out the images and influence of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East during the latter half of the millennium...
We are accustomed today to seeing copies of color images: posters of Jessica Alba or The Strokes on our dorm-room walls, images in books and magazines and the annoying little handouts we are given outside Cutler’s. The idea hardly seems radical. But color prints were once revolutionary and the printmakers, pioneers. The exhibition, “Colorful Impressions: The...
It is peculiar that the most popular study space at Yale — a university so revered for its architecture — is a basement. The two underground levels of Bass Library, however, are sumptuously decorated, equaling in material beauty the interiors of Yale’s other recently renovated buildings. The space — I hesitate to call it a building — is certainly better...
Looking for a diversion from long hours of studying in Sterling? Here’s one option: browse the Rough Proof Photo Exhibit and gaze at former Yalies reading everything from Plato to Playboy in Sterling. Currently on display in the Exhibit Corridor, the Rough Proof photography exhibition showcases black-and-white photographs of students from the 1950s through the early...
“Two women came in and, when they were told the Trumbull Gallery was closed and wouldn’t be able to view the miniatures, they were nearly devastated,” Annabel Rhodeen, visitor services assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery, said. “One was from California and was leaving before it reopened, and was practically in tears.” This seems quite the testament to...
There are few people who, when pressed, won’t admit to a childhood passion for drawing. The urge to draw comes from the same place as the urge to speak. As toddlers become aware of the world, their excitement necessarily leads to a need for expression, which can help make sense of the hamster that got killed behind the door of their kindergarten classroom or the strange...
The new exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery is that rare example of Yale self-congratulatory spirit anyone can enjoy. “Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century,” which opened Tuesday, displays 300 highlights of nearly 15,700 pieces acquired by the Art Gallery in the last 10 years, which basically amounts to a centuries-old institution saying: “Look what we...
This year marks 200 years since the government of Great Britain abolished the slave trade. To commemorate the anniversary, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is presenting “Documenting Slavery,” which will be on display through October 31. “Documenting Slavery” has arranged such materials as letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, leaflets and...
The new display at the Beinecke sets out to prove that there is more to the legend of pirates than blood, guts, gore and the smoky face of Johnny Depp. The two-month exhibition presents early depictions of pirates, from barbaric criminals to romanticized heroes, in the 18th century. Research consultant Lynda Paul MUS ’12, and former Beinecke Curatorial Assistant...