Collaborating with Nasty Women Connecticut, the Ely Center for Contemporary Art will be showcasing Silence Breakers, an exhibition of over 100 artists, all making statements about “women silenced and disregarded.” As a tribute to Women’s History Month, the exhibition collected many artists work in the former home of John Slade Ely and, as the exhibit suggests, his disregarded widow, Grace. According …
UnSeen: Our Past in a new light
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery will feature UnSeen: Our Past in a new light, an exhibition showcasing the work of Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar ’02MFA. The exhibit, on display for the next 10 months, will illuminate the ways in which people of color contributed to this country’s founding. It examines both the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of minorities in the art …
Sarah McKenzie ’93 | “Artist Panel: Painting/Non Painting” | Clyfford Still Museum
Thursday, March 8, 2018 6:30-8PM | Sarah McKenzie ’93 YC is part of the “Artist Panel: Painting/Non Painting” at the Clyfford Still Museum. Join artists Stephen Batura, Terry Maker, and Sarah McKenzie to see how the act of painting (and near-painting) continues to be redefined in the present day. This panel will also consider if and how the intentions of …
Nicola Camerlenghi ’98 profiled by The Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth profiled Nicola Camerlenghi ’98, an art history professor. The article discusses Professor Camerlenghi’s role in the “Mapping Rome” project. In collaboration with other institutions, Camerlenghi helped digitize thousands of resources on Roman history. Through the Dartmouth College Rome Center, this project aims to make these rich historical sources more readily accessible. He describes what first piqued his interest in Art …
NBC News Features Devan Shimoyama ’14MFA
Devan Shimoyama ’14MFA was profiled last week in NBC News. The article focused on Shimoyama’s current exhibition at the De Buck Gallery in New York City. This exhibition, which is entitled “Sweet” and is the artist’s first solo show, analyzes the gendered space of the black barbershop. Shimoyama explains, “The black barbershop is not quite [a safe space] for gay black …
Contemporary Crossroads II Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for the Yale Alumni Art League’s event at Art Basel Miami! Please purchase tickets here. Join Yale alumni and friends for an engaging afternoon with world class alumni and specialists in the Arts as we get an in-depth look into the contemporary arts scene during the internationally acclaimed Art Basel Miami. Whether you are a seasoned …
Yale Alumni Launch New Haven Arts Incubator
Titus Kaphar ’06MFA and Jonathan Brand ’07MFA are part of a team of innovative leaders working to expand New Haven’s arts community. The $5.8 million project called Elm City Postmasters would renovate a historic industrial building at 169 Henry Street and transform it into an arts studio for 10 fellows. The project would engage local high school students and is …
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media Reopening
This fall, Yale’s DMCA will reopen as The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. The center’s press release claims that “the renaming marks an important distinction and a better reflection of our core mission, to serve as an interdisciplinary arts research center for all Yale students, graduate and undergraduate alike.” Located at 149 York Street, the Center will formally announce …
Matthew Pillsbury ’95: Sanctuary
Through November 22nd, Benrubi Gallery is displaying the photography of Matthew Pillsbury ’95. The exhibition, Sanctuary, focuses on urban communities and everyday life, but also considers the political context of major cities in our current political discourse. The gallery adds, “Sanctuary shows a wide variety of urban environments, from museums and galas to parades and protests and public plazas and beaches. Some are …
Stories of Almost Everyone
The Hammer Museum will feature Stories of Almost Everyone, a collection that explores the storytelling and historiography process of art. The museum explains the exhibition’s inspiration, “In recent years, a continued emphasis on an art of ideas—inherited from the legacies of conceptual and post-conceptual artistic practice—has sought to further develop strategies in the service of communicating social, political, and economic histories. …