Join Yale’s Department of the History of Art as it kicks off opening festivities to honor the legacy of Professor Robert Farris Thompson. The event will feature a live performance by Afro-Puerto Rican music group Alma Moyo, Professor Thompson’s “house band.” A brief presentation on Professor Thompson will precede the performance. Symposium Program When: Thursday, September 7, 2023 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm Where: …
Genevieve Gaignard MFA ’14 Temporary Exhibition on View at LA’s 7th Street/Metro Center Station
Genevieve Gaignard MFA ’14’s photography is currently on display at a temporary exhibition at Los Angeles’s 7th Street / Metro Center Station. Part of the LA Metro Lightbox Exhibition Program, the untitled exhibition intertwines issues of race, class and gender, and “is an investigation of the aesthetic and cultural divide between white and black, a chasm as palpable as it …
August 14: Connection and Reflection: A Conversation with Designer Dorian Webb ‘91
Join award-winning designer Dorian Webb, YC ’91 in conversation with gallerist Valerie Francis as she discusses the inspiration for her latest fine jewelry collections. Believing that handcraftsmanship conveys a sense of hope, heritage and humanity, Dorian designs intentional jewelry that sparkles with diamonds and colorful semiprecious and precious stones. An advocate for women, Dorian creates jewelry that fosters connection and reflection, …
African Art in Motion Symposium September 7th, 2023
The Yale History of Art department, in collaboration with the Yale Alumni Art League and other entities, is hosting African Art in Motion, a symposium in memory of Prof. Robert Farris Thompson. It will take place from Thursday, Sept. 7 through Friday, Sept. 8 on the Yale campus. An opening reception with live music, performed by Alma Moyo, will take …
Composer Ari Benjamin Meyers BA’94 July 1 & 2 Luxembourg Performance
Composer Ari Benjamin Meyers BA ’94 will be performing at the Hémicycle in Luxembourg, reflecting on the climate crisis and humanity’s shifting and often harmful relationship with nature. Read more about the performance from the Mudam below: Ari Benjamin Meyers has been commissioned to create a new performance at an offsite venue, the Hémicycle – former seat of the European Parliament …
Wangechi Mutu MFA ’00 featured in New York Times
Recently, The New York Times‘s Aruna D’Souza profiled Wangechi Mutu MFA ’00 in the leadup to her New Museum exhibition, “Intertwined,” an ambitious survey of the artist’s prolific career. The profile, titled “An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny” explores how Mutu blends evolutionary history, science fiction, and her bicontinental life experience into sculpture. …
Exhibition Curated by Prem Krishnamurthy BA ’99 Featured in Art News
Prem Krishnamurthy BA ’99 was recently featured in ArtNews for his part in curating Cleveland’s FRONT Triennial, whose theme this year is healing. The exhibition, “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows,” was also organized by Art21 chief curator Tina Kukielski. According to ArtNews, the exhibition “sprawls across Cleveland and the nearby cities of Akron and Oberlin—a region whose primary industry, …
Barkley L. Hendricks BFA/MFA ’72: MYSELF WHEN I AM REAL Exhibition Extended through June 17
The Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition “MYSELF WHEN I AM REAL” of Barkley L. Hendricks BFA/MFA ’72 (1945-2017) has been extended through June 17. Read more about exhibition from gallery webpage below: “Myself When I Am Real, an exhibition featuring renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks’ photographic work, is now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery through June 17. The exhibition includes both vintage prints …
Dawoud Bey MFA ’93 Solo Hollywood Exhibition Through June 30th
Photographer Dawoud Bey MFA ’93 is currently being exhibited in his first solo Los Angeles exhibition, “Dawoud Bey: Pictures 1976 – 2019,” at Sean Kelly gallery in Hollywood. The exhibition, which runs through June 30, is a sampler of his work spanning from his “Harlem, U.S.A.” series to “In This Here Place,” capturing scenes from Louisiana plantations. On the exhibit, …
Pauli Murray College Mural by Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 Unveiled
At the end of March, Pauli Murray College unveiled a mosaic mural by Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02, that, as Tina Lu, head of Pauli Murray College put it would be “monumental,” “enduring,” and “challenging.” Made with thousands of varying-sized enamel tiles, the mural features a giant black-and-white image of a smiling Pauli Murray as a young adult, gazing out toward …