Through November 22nd, Benrubi Gallery is displaying the photography of Matthew Pillsbury ’95. The exhibition, Sanctuary, focuses on urban communities and everyday life, but also considers the political context of major cities in our current political discourse. The gallery adds, “Sanctuary shows a wide variety of urban environments, from museums and galas to parades and protests and public plazas and beaches. Some are …

The Hammer Museum will feature Stories of Almost Everyone, a collection that explores the storytelling and historiography process of art. The museum explains the exhibition’s inspiration, “In recent years, a continued emphasis on an art of ideas—inherited from the legacies of conceptual and post-conceptual artistic practice—has sought to further develop strategies in the service of communicating social, political, and economic histories. …

The Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art will exhibit works of Martin Puryear ’71MFA/MFA from across his nearly 40 year long career. This is Puryear’s first public exhibition in London and will feature more than 30 works. Parasol unit describes Puryear’s style and the exhibition in its press release. “Martin Puryear’s abstract sculptures are extraordinary. His reductive forms have a unique aesthetic …

On September 26, multiple Yale affiliates and leaders will take part in PISSED, “a panel and conversation about art, architecture and legal action as tactics for promoting inclusivity.” Speakers include Titus Kaphar ’06MFA, Yale Architecture Professor Joel Sanders, Cassils, Chase Strangio, and Jack Halberstam as moderator. The event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. …

“The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp evokes New Orleans’s natural environment—surrounded by bayous, lakes and wetlands near the mouth of the Mississippi River. It also alludes to the city’s unique cultural landscape as a creative force; the politically engaged jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp described jazz itself as a triumph of the human spirit, a lily that grows “in spite of …

Established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Yale University Art Gallery director from 1957 to 1971, the annual Ritchie Lectures, which are jointly sponsored by the Center and the Gallery, bring distinguished members of the international visual arts community to the university. These lectures are free and open to the public, honoring Ritchie’s belief that the art museum …

From September 8 – December 31, 2017, Mickalene Thomas ’02MFA will be displaying Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The museum writes that the exhibit “recasts and reconfigures notions of beauty, gender, race, and representation.” Find more information and details here.