Animalization
The first thing you will see upon entering the “Endless Forms” exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art is a painting of the great man himself, scruffy-looking, white-bearded, boring his hawk-like eyes into you. But the exhibit isn’t just about Darwin on his 200th birthday. It ambitiously aims to explore the impact of his theories on the artists of Europe and America during his lifetime and beyond.
The exhibition, with over 200 items from all over the world, can seem as overwhelming as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a “most amazingly complex exhibit,” according to...
