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NOW ON VIEW In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art March 24 – December 3, 2023 Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street    More than fifty paintings from the Yale Center for British Art are now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition spans four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, with works by Mary Beale, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Gwen John, Angelica Kauffman, George Stubbs, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others. The Gallery is free and open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday.  Join YCBA docents and student guides for exhibition tours on Thursdays, April 6, 13, 20, and 27; and Saturdays, April 8, 15, 22, and 29.  PLAN YOUR VISIT UPCOMING PROGRAMS Please visit our website to see a full list of upcoming events and exhibitions! 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. at home: Artists in Conversation | Katy Moran Monday, April 17, 12–1 pm Online    Katy Moran joins Carmen Juliá, curator, Spike Island Art Centre, Bristol, in conversation.  Moran is a contemporary artist known for her powerful and evocative abstract paintings. Her work explores color, composition, and gesture and sometimes suggests landscape, portraiture, or still life.  at home: Artists in Conversation | Anthea Hamilton Friday, April 28, 12–1 pm Online    Anthea Hamilton will be in conversation with Sally Tallant, president and executive director, Queens Museum, Queens, NY.  Hamilton is a British artist known for creating large-scale installations and surreal artworks.  ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Isokon Symposium April 20–21, 2023 Register online    A pioneer in its approach to materials, marketing, and design, Isokon Ltd was instrumental in introducing functional modernism to England between the wars.  This online symposium will explore Isokon within the systems of manufacturing, media, and collective living that underpinned modernist practice in the 1930s and consider its global legacy. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS Summer Teacher Institute  June 26–28, 2023 Apply through June 1    This year’s Summer Teacher Institute, offered by the YCBA, will focus on visual literacy strategies for the classroom and art museum visits.  This year’s program will take place at Yale’s West Campus in West Haven, CT, a fifteen-minute drive from the YCBA. Parking is free. Lunch and per diem will be provided. 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): Installation view of In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, courtesy of Yale Art Gallery; Holly Hendry, photo by Nick Ballon, courtesy of Holly Hendry and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Katy Moran, photo by Adrian Lourie; Anthea Hamilton, photo by Adama Jalloh; Isokon Flats, Hampstead by Wells Coates 1934, photographed circa 1978 by Kenneth J. Gill (Wikimedia user: Gillfoto), Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0; Shared Conservation Lab at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale West Campus, photo by Jon Atherton; Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole Contact: +1 203 432 2800 Yale Center for British Art PO Box 208280 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06520-8280 #yalecenterforbritishart#fineartmagazine#fineartfun