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AT HOME: ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom Friday, March 24, 12–1 pm Online    Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom talks with Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom combines film, photography, ready-made objects, recorded sound, and sculpture to create multimedia installations that highlight cultural collisions. He often collaborates with musicians, making live performance and improvisation a key element of his works. His recent projects and performances include Before: Socialized, Circularized, Linearized, Artificialized, Corrupt Time, Southwark Park Gallery, London (2022); During: Changeable Behaviour/Behavioural Change (Here Soon), Quench Gallery, Margate (2021); During: Compliment, the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (2022); Receiver, a group exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2022); and Solos, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2020). REGISTER TODAY! OPENING SOON! In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art March 24–December 3, 2023 Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street    A selection of more than fifty paintings from the Yale Center for British Art will be on view at the Yale University Art Gallery, offering vistiors the opportunity to engage with the YCBA collection while the museum is closed for building conservation. The exhibition spans four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions. Highlights include Francis Bacon’s Study of a Head (1952); several of John Constable’s atmospheric Cloud Studies (1821–25); James McNeill Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Silver (1872–78); and J. M. W. Turner’s Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818). In a New Light will occupy the special-exhibition galleries on the fourth floor of the Gallery’s Kahn building, which opened in 1953. It was the architect’s first significant commission and the first modernist structure on Yale’s campus. Directly across the street is Kahn's final building, the YCBA, which was completed after his death and opened to the public in 1977. The Gallery is free and open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday. PLAN YOUR VISIT NOW ON VIEW The View From Here Through April 2, 2023 High Street Exterior    This exhibition highlights the work of eleven student-photographers from Greater New Haven who participated in “The View From Here: Accessing Art Through Photography,” a four-month photography program offered by the Yale Center for British Art and the Lens Media Lab at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University. In fall 2022, “The View From Here” was taught at the YCBA, enabling access to the museum’s rich collection of historic and contemporary photographs. Students learned about the history, methods, and science of photography. They captured cityscapes, landscapes, and portraits using smartphone cameras as their primary technology. Their works are on view in the High Street windows through April 2, 2023.  LEARN MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS Please visit our website to see a full list of upcoming events and exhibitions! Art in Context: Cataloging Conundrums Tuesday, April 4, 12:30 pm Online    Julian Lee, 2022–23 Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Resident at the Yale Center for British Art, has cataloged numerous objects in the museum's collection. In this talk, he discusses a few examples that posed challenges to this process, including a series of wood printing blocks by Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), a hand-colored panorama of the Rhine, and a 1520 edition of the chronicles of England. at home: Artists in Conversation | Holly Hendry  Friday, April 14, 12–1 pm Online    Holly Hendry talks with Phillip Edward Spradley, cultural producer, about her interest in and approaches to sculpture within the public realm, as well as her recent outdoor commissions, upcoming projects, and current studio workings. Hendry's site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lives beneath the surface, from hidden underground spaces to the interior workings of the body. CLOSURE NOTICE The museum is closed for building conservation.    On-site access to the Archives, collections, Reference Library, and Study Room is by appointment.  Throughout the closure, the museum will maintain a robust schedule of online programming and off-site exhibitions. View our calendar for more information.

Image credits (top to bottom):  Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, photo © Hydra Dewachi on behalf of Jerwood Arts ‘Solo Presentations 2019’; Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (detail), 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Collage of "The View From Here" participants' photos; Thomas Bewick, The Rhinoceros, ca. 1790, wood printing block, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Holly Hendry, photo by Nick Ballon, courtesy of Holly Hendry and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole #yalecenterforbritishart#fineartmagazine#fineartfunspring