British art: Can it be funky?
Even after six months, Andrew Lee ’09, Meghan Weeks ’08 and Jenny Braun ’08 still couldn’t quite agree. They’d worked since October with six other guides to curate an 18-object exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art, but as they toured the final installation of their show Tuesday, they kept defending their individual reasons for choosing a mezzotint after Joseph Wright’s painting “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” as the exhibit’s central object.
Lee thought the complex and dramatic print would help the guides create a tightly composed show, the first they have ever...
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