12.2.22 Event In Conversation with Kymberly Pinder ’89 MA, ’95 PhD and Didier
William ’09 MFA

Friday, December 2, 20222pm – 4pmMOCANOMI770 NE 125th streetNorth Miami, FL 33161 Register @ https://INCONKPDW.eventbrite.com Join the Yale Alumni Art League in partnership with Sugarcane Magazine and the Museum ofContemporary Art North Miami for an In-Conversation and reception with the Stavros NiarchosFoundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, Kymberly Pinder ’89 MA, ’95 PhD and DidierWilliam ’09 MFA in …

Antwaun Sargent On Campus for Beauty and Justice

Antwaun Sargent: Beauty and JusticeAuthor and Art Critic; Director, Gagosian Galleries November 1, 2022, 4:00pmSchool of Art, Green Hall, B031156 Chapel Street About Antwaun SargentAntwaun Sargent is a cultural critic whos writing has appeared  in New York Times, the New Yorker, GQ, Interview and many other publications.  He guest edited the May/June 2020 “New Talent” issue of Art in America …

An “Emotional, Powerful Photographic Experience:” Dawoud Bey MFA ’93 at Tampa Museum of Art

In her review of Dawoud Bey MFA ’93’s recent exhibition, Arts and Music Reporter Maggie Duffy calls the exhibition an “emotional, powerful photographic experience.” The exhibition, “Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue,” was on display at the Tampa Museum of Art until October 25th. “In Dialogue” showcases more than 120 photographs and videos from Bey and Carrie Mae …

Do Ho Suh MFA ’97 Conserves Texture of Everyday with Fabric Sculpture

Recently, Lucy Ives profiled Do Ho Suh MFA ’97, whose fabric sculptures conserve the texture of everyday life. Ives writes: “Suh’s art is often described as a response to globalization… Suh was born in Seoul in 1962 and came to the US to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where his work in fabric architecture was a way …

Danielle De Jesus MFA ’21 Is 2022 Beecher Residency Inaugural Resident

Danielle De Jesus MFA ’21 was the 2022 Beecher Residency Inaugural resident at Stillman House in Litchfield, Connecticut. She spoke with ArtNet about her experience. Read more at this ArtNet article! Photo Credits: Danielle De Jesus at the Beecher Residency. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Chiffon Thomas MFA ’20 Exhibition at PPOW Gallery in NYC

From September 9 to October 28, 2022, you can view Chiffon Thomas MFA ’20 on display at the PPOW gallery in New York City. Thomas’s exhibition, Staircase to the Rose Window, was reviewed in the New Yorker by Johanna Fateman, who described the multidisciplinary artist’s work as “breathtaking”: “Thomas’s alchemical, history-laden work stands, in part, as a metaphor for trans …

Shikeith MFA ’18 at Yossi Milo Gallery Summer 2022

“Grace is the condition of being blessed. It also describes a certain effortless movement: it is meant to come to us with ease. But for his debut exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, multidisciplinary artist Shikeith MFA’ 18 warns us via the show’s title that for Black queer people, “grace comes violently.” The gentle yet tense photographs, sculptures, and five-channel video-cum-sculpture …

Lauren Halsey MFA ’14 Interviewed by NYT Magazine

Recently, Lauren Halsey MFA ’14 was interviewed by The New York Times Magazine‘s Adam Bradley for the magazine’s “Artist’s Questionnaire” column. The article, “Lauren Halsey Sees the Future,” explores how Halsey’s work “looks at the storied past and present of the deeply misunderstood community of South Central Los Angeles” while creating new possibilities. Read more at this New York Times …

52 Artists: a Feminist Milestone at Aldrich Museum Includes 15 Yale Women

52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone will run at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from June 6, 2022 TO January 8, 2023. The exhibition includes works from 15 Yale affiliated female-identifying or nonbinary artists. 52 Artists celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in …

“Lipstick Ascending” Sculptor Claes Oldenburg BA ’50 Dies at 93

Claes Oldenburg BA ’50, the Swedish-born American Pop artist known for his monumental sculptures of everyday objects, died on Monday at his home and studio in the SoHo section of Manhattan. He was 93. In the Yale Community, Oldenburg is perhaps best known for the “mysterious” appearance of his anti-war sculpture “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks,” which was placed in …