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, …

As his fifth solo exhibition in the Morgan Lehman Gallery, Jeff Perrott ’92 MFA has new oil paintings on display. Perrott explains that the works are part of his larger “Random Walks” project which fuses abstract painting and chance. The gallery describes the exhibition as “subverting the traditional figure-ground relationship. Each painting presents a ground that is functionally chameleonic: simultaneously sheer …

On Thursday, February 23rd Weather Trust / Between Stars: Offer Balancing Scenarios by Ali Van ’08 will open at the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City. The opening reception will take place from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. Van’s work will remain on display until March 18th, 2017. The gallery explains how the exhibition involves visitors, “At the center of the show is an …

Anoka Faruqee ’94 is opening a new solo exhibition entitled Rainbows and Bruises at Koenig & Clinton in New York City tomorrow. Rainbows and Bruises will be on display from February 23rd to April 8th, 2017. An opening reception will be held on February 23rd from 6-8 PM at the gallery. Koenig & Clinton’s press release observes, “By carefully calibrating the color relationship between …

Abelardo Morell ’81MFA has his photography featured in the Concord Museum this February through August. According to the museum, “Guided and inspired by Thoreau’s journals and his seminal work Walden, Abelardo Morell has made new panoramic photographic works that suggest fresh new angles from which to look at Walden Pond.” The exhibition will feature a special lecture from Morell on …

In its coverage of the exhibition, the Philadelphia Weekly wrote, “It’s hard to understate the social and historical significance of these photos.” Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A will be featured at the African American Museum of Philadelphia until April 2nd. AAMP is open Thursday-Saturday from 10 AM – 5 PM and on Sunday from 12 PM – 5 PM.

Abstract Politics: A Conversation on the History of Exhibiting and Collecting Abstract Art This panel discussion will feature artist Kevin Beasley MFA ’12; Susan Cahan, Dean of Arts in Yale College and author of “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power”; Pamela J. Joyner, collector and philanthropist; Courtney J. Martin PhD ’09, Assistant Professor of History …