Rachel Rose MFA ’09 at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea: Enclosure. On view in the midst of new creations made for Rachel Rose’s current gallery show in New York are works of a very different vintage: paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries in England, all on loan from the Yale Center for British Art. The older works informed Rose’s new ones …

Justine Kurland is one of three artists on display from February 4 to May 29, 2022 in Henry Art Gallery’s North Galleries at the University of Washington in Seattle. Viewpoints is a rotating series that highlights artwork from the Henry’s collection, paired with commentary and insights from members of the University of Washington community. This iteration of Viewpoints presents paintings by Amanda Ross-Ho …

Lux et Femina: Women in Graphic Design at Yale will soon be open to everyone. The exhibition celebrating 70 years of women in graphic design at Yale is currently installed at Haas Library at Yale. Since the library is only open to the Yale campus community, the curators have created a series of online events to further the discussion and make …

Sounding Board, Tschabalala Self’s first foray into performance art at the 2021 Performa Biennial, begins with light and color. The work debuted in October 2021 in the inviting amphitheater at Harlem’s Jackie Robinson Park. There, the work’s stage was collaged with whimsical furniture arrangements that played with foreshortening, oversized drooping flowers, and painted set pieces that recalled the artist’s mixed-media figurative paintings. This move …

“Last Friday at 5 p.m. I joined a small crowd at the intersection of Orchard Street and Rivington on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to see “The Sound of Morning,” a piece by the sculptor and performance artist Kevin Beasley, commissioned by the Performa Biennial. (Though Beasley’s performance is over, it can be viewed at performa2021.org, and the rest of …

Recently, Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 was featured in a New York Times Magazine profile. You can read the beginning of the profile below or by clicking this link. “In the fall of 2019, I visited Paris twice. In October, I went with my mother, a first and only visit for her. The trip was exhausting; we tried to see every sight, …

With a new gallery show and a museum retrospective in the works, the New York-based abstract painter Stanley Whitney MFA ’72 has fully arrived. It’s been a long time coming. Across canvases large and small ringing the walls of his capacious new studio, Whitney achieved glorious variety in palette, rhythm, juxtaposition and touch. Many of these paintings created over the …

“On the Basis of Art” celebrates the achievements of generations of Yale-trained women artists. The show, postponed for a year due to the pandemic, marks the recent 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the university’s first women students, who studied at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now the Yale School of Art) …

Painter Jordan Casteel ’14 M.F.A is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, informally known as the “genius grant.” Casteel was recognized for “capturing everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.” Her paintings feature the people and environments she encounters on the streets of Harlem, in New York …

The first women to study at Yale weren’t the undergraduates who turned up in the fall of 1969. They arrived a full century earlier as graduate students in the Yale School of Art when it opened in 1869. The Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, on view through January 9, exhibits the …