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 …

On May 22nd, Anne Patterson ’82 will open her newest installation in the Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio. The opening ceremony will feature The Collegium Cincinnati performing the complete Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi and a new composition by Patrick Harlin. The event will start at 7:30pm. More information and directions to ticket instructions can be found here. Learn more about Patterson’s …

This Wednesday, April 5th, Professor Thomas Crow of The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University will be speaking as part of the Paul Mellon lecture series. This year’s lecture series is intended to highlight “the late 1950s emergence of the modernist style among youthful connoisseurs of advanced American jazz and how it fostered a favorable climate for signature British …

The Brooklyn Museum will open We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 on April 21st, 2017. The exhibition will feature numerous Yale alumni and will remain on display until September 17th. According to the museum, this is “the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color—distinct from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream feminist movement—in order to reorient …

On May 2nd, YaleBoston, Yale SOM Alumni Association Boston, and Eli’s Mishpacha Boston will host Martha Lufkin to speak on work to reclaim Nazi-looted artwork. YaleBoston describes the event as follows, “In World War II, the Nazis stole vast quantities of art from Jewish owners – much of which passed into other hands. What happens when an heir to the original …

Zoe Walsh ’16 MFA is launching Exposures, an exhibition which draws proposes “a precarious visuality built through historically queer pleasures, politics, and world-making”, according to the Fondation des Etats-Unis. In 2015, while attending Yale, Walsh was awarded the Al Held Travel Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Currently, Walsh is in Paris, France on a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship through the Fondation des …

Wangechi Mutu ’00 MFA has a sculpture exhibition currently featured at the Gladstone Gallery. The gallery explains that “this installation proposes an alternative to the systemic modes of representation in both Western and Eastern traditions by reimagining and recontextualizing the relations between the body, the natural world, and social forces. Well known for collages of hybrid forms drawn from folklore, …