The New York Times profiled Awol Erizku ’14MFA in an April 10 story about his career and latest projects. The article includes Erizku’s perspective on his high-profile role as the photographer of Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement, his anti-Trump exhibition soon to open in London, and the formative experiences that shape his art. The Times describes the fixtures of Erizku’s work, “There are …
Byron Kim ’83 Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Out of nearly 3,000 applicants, Byron Kim ’83, senior critic at the Yale School of Art, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. YaleNews outlines his career, “Kim received a B.A. in English from Yale College in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. His work balances abstraction and representation, and conceptualism and pure painting. He …
The Art of Amsterdam with John Walsh ’61
The Yale University Art Gallery Luxury Travel Program is planning a trip from May 21-27, 2017 entitled The Art of Amsterdam with John Walsh. According to the program description, “John Walsh has treated the Yale University Art Gallery audiences to lectures and talks on Dutch paintings of the Golden Age. He has now agreed to take a seminar-sized group to Amsterdam …
Anne Patterson ’82: Murmuration
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 …
Hippy Hippy Shake: Sculpture through the Counterculture
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 …
We Wanted a Revolution Exhibition
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 …
Sarah Sze ’91 Timekeeper Exhibition in Copenhagen
From March 10 – September 3, 2017, the Copenhagen Contemporary is featuring Timekeeper by Sarah Sze ’91. In this exhibition, Sze explores how time is perceived in individual memories and experiences, rather analyzing time in a linear sense. The museum describes Timekeeper as “a complex and immersive installation encompassing projection, light, objects, and sound. In the centre of a darkened room is a …
Martha Lufkin ’76: “Lawsuits Over Nazi-Looted Art”
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 Exhibition at Fondation des Etats-Unis
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: Ndoro Na Miti
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, …