EXHIBITS AND GALLERIES
ARIEL KIM & ELIZABETH DEJANIKUS
New Haven Notables: commemoration through mural art

October 10, 2021

ANNIE RADILLO & LIANA SCHMITTER-EMERSON
Artspace New Haven considers space and time

Artspace New Haven’s most recent exhibition, “Everywhere and Here,” features works inspired by items in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The exhibition, which […]

September 27, 2021

Artspace exhibition featuring Peabody Museum artifacts
AUDREY KIM
Beinecke Library opens exhibition “Road Show” on writers’ travels

On Sept. 1, an exhibition called “Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature” opened for viewing at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The […]

September 27, 2021

Window into exhibit
GAMZE KAZAKOGLU
“Furniture at the Yale Center for British Art: A Selection” opens to visitors

The exhibition, which opened over the summer, shows the museum’s furniture collection in its Lecture Hall Lobby.

September 24, 2021

The sign on the YCBA.
ANNIE RADILLO
Colorful Calder sculpture returns to Beinecke Plaza

After residing in the Yale University Art Gallery sculpture garden for three years, American sculptor Alexander Calder’s sculpture “Gallows and Lollipops” was moved back to the Hewitt Quadrangle — commonly known as the Beinecke Plaza — on Sept. 8.

September 21, 2021

Gallows and Lollipops stands in Beinecke Plaza
TANIA TSUNIK
Yale student presents a virtual exhibit on Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’

As the University’s safety regulations still pose a challenge to in-person events, one student presents her online exhibit on the publishing history of Austen’s classic novel.

September 20, 2021

ANNIE RADILLO & SELIN NALBANTOGLU
Yale University Art Gallery curates special exhibition honoring female alumni artists

“On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale” was curated to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Yale’s first female students and display art created by Yale-educated female artists.

September 14, 2021

Lady Madonna by Audrey Flack.
MARISOL CARTY
Yale Schwarzman Center opens its doors

Yale students were introduced to the Schwarzman Center with lunch in Commons on Wednesday and will now be able to experience the center’s many gathering spaces and arts offerings.

September 2, 2021

ANNIE RADILLO
YUAG acquires a piece by contemporary artist Audrey Flack

As the Yale University Art Gallery prepares to reopen to the public next week, curator Keely Orgeman and others in the contemporary art galleries are working on the display of a newly-acquired painting by contemporary artist Audrey Flack.

May 7, 2021

The front entrance to YUAG
MARISOL CARTY
Collection of Musical Instruments receives major gift from museum founder’s great-great-grandson

Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments originated in 1900 when piano dealer Morris Steiner donated an extensive collection of keyboard instruments to the University. More than 120 years later, Steinert’s great-great-grandson Timothy Steinert ’82 and his wife Lixia Zhang gave a major donation to the collection.

May 6, 2021

Morris Steinert at one of his clavichords.
IVY VUONG
Asian art at Yale art museums expanding, morphing with time

The YUAG and the YCBA have taken steps in recent years to enlarge their collections of Asian art.

May 3, 2021

The interior of YUAG.