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. 

In her first solo exhibition with Casey Kaplan, Jordan Casteel ’14MFA will be displaying Nights in Harlem through October 28th. According to the gallery, the exhibit “presents a new series of larger-than-life oil on canvas paintings depicting black male subjects who continue to guide her practice. Inspired by the streets of Harlem at night, the artist draws from personal experiences and cultural …

Vienna Secession is featuring the first solo exhibition of Alex Da Corte ’10MFA in Europe. The gallery describes Da Corte’s artistic process for Slow Gaffiti, “The engagement with the complexity of human experience is central to his work, for instance when he explores and exposes questions of desire, sensuality, and alienation. The artist is interested in both the cultural and psychological qualities that …

The Yale Club of Orange County is now selling tickets for its annual Pageant of the Masters event. The event is based on the traditional “grand tour” arts experiences of continental Europe. The event details can be found in full here: “Please join Yale Alumni, family, friends, and current students for a special evening in Laguna Beach.  Gallery hop, dine, …

From June 27 – July 21, David Zwirner will feature 28 works from Thread. The exhibition will support this innovative, non-profit artist collaboratory in Senegal. The gallery’s press release describes Thread‘s origins, “The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation initiated the project in an isolated part of sub-Saharan Africa to allow painters, dancers, photographers, and other artists from all over the world, …

The New Release Gallery will be featuring the paintings of Yale MFA 2017 graduates this summer. From June 16 to July 8, the gallery will display artwork from these artists. The gallery describes the exhibition as “Beauty forced out in fits and starts and sudden leaps of faith or faithlessness, this fusion of elements, bright ideas refined by two years …

Sam Contis ’08MFA will feature her photography collection of Deep Springs College in her first solo museum exhibition. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will host the exhibition which extends from May 3 to August 27. To describe the themes of Contis’s work, BAMPFA director and chief curator Lawrence Rinder writes, “While the ‘cowboy’ is essential to the …

The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) will be featuring an exhibition on British studio pottery from the 1920s through present. Highlighting the development of the vessel form, the YCBA describes the exhibition as “Jar, bowl, charger, monumental urn: this family of forms ties ceramics to its functional origins. A vessel exists to hold or contain—a purpose it may fulfill …

From May 18 to July 8, 2017, Lehmann Maupin in Hong Kong will feature its first exhibition with Wangechi Mutu ’00MFA. The gallery describes Mutu’s recent work as exploring “the relationship between humans and the natural environment through new materials. The work is made from organic matter, including rocks and minerals, iron rich soil, roots, and branches sourced from different …