PRECOG Magazine, an annual publication that explores the intersection of art and technology/science, launches its third issue on May 25th at 6-8 PM at Printed Matter in NYC. This edition will feature multiple Yale alumni: Blinn & Lambert (pseudonym of Nicholas Steindorf MFA’14 and Kyle Williams MFA’15) and Julia Bland MFA’12. For more information and to purchase the publication visit PRECOG …

Eva O’Leary MFA’16 was announced to be the winner of the 2018 Hyères Festival Photographie Grand Prix this April. From New York, O’Leary’s winning work was named Spitting Image, and depicted young American girls, aged 11 to 14, and their discomfort looking into the lens while looking at a mirror. Her work was comprised of both video and photos and analyzed how …

Kehinde Wiley MFA’01 is set to speak at the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2018 Commencement ceremony. SFAI’s President, Gordon Knox, said, in regards to Wiley being chosen as the speaker: ““Kehinde Wiley’s work reflects the core values of a San Francisco Art Institute education—exquisite technique delivering a complex human story. His paintings re-shape how we see and understand power and …

Hasabie Kidanu, MFA’17, was named a 2018 Jan van Eyck Academie Resident this past week. As a resident, Kidanu will spend up to a year at the van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands, a post-academic institute for artistic growth and development. This year, she was chosen as one of thirty-four to receive this honor out of over 650 applicants from …

On March 9th, Danna Singer MFA’17 was featured in Museé for her work in photography. Singer explores the ideas of mortality and coming to terms with eventual death in her photos. She primarily photographs her children and her household, and she explains she and her child would take photos on the weekends. In the video, Singer states that her child …

Lisa Kereszi MFA’00 was featured in Lenscratch. She was interviewed in terms of her contribution to The States Project. Read the interview at Lenscratch. Kereszi is not only a graduate of the School of Art. She has also been a lecturer at Yale since 2004, and she became the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art in 2013.

Edward Cooke ’77, the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale, won the 2018 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Arts Association. Since teaching at Yale in 1992, Cooke believed in “learning by looking.” By actually bringing students into Yale’s collections to gain first-hand knowledge, he managed to engage and impact hundreds of students. Read …

Thursday, March 8, 2018 6:30-8PM | Sarah McKenzie ’93 YC is part of the “Artist Panel: Painting/Non Painting” at the Clyfford Still Museum. Join artists Stephen Batura, Terry Maker, and Sarah McKenzie to see how the act of painting (and near-painting) continues to be redefined in the present day. This panel will also consider if and how the intentions of …

The Dartmouth profiled Nicola Camerlenghi ’98, an art history professor. The article discusses Professor Camerlenghi’s role in the “Mapping Rome” project. In collaboration with other institutions, Camerlenghi helped digitize thousands of resources on Roman history. Through the Dartmouth College Rome Center, this project aims to make these rich historical sources more readily accessible. He describes what first piqued his interest in Art …

Devan Shimoyama ’14MFA was profiled last week in NBC News. The article focused on Shimoyama’s current exhibition at the De Buck Gallery in New York City. This exhibition, which is entitled “Sweet” and is the artist’s first solo show, analyzes the gendered space of the black barbershop. Shimoyama explains, “The black barbershop is not quite [a safe space] for gay black …