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Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein in their living room, 1923
Thursday, April 5 –  Friday, April 6, 2012
 

Women Make Modern Symposium: New Histories of Modern Art in the United States

Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art, Room 351, 190 York St., New Haven, CT, 06511 MAP
Location is wheelchair accessible
Women Make Modern will address how in the early part of the 20th century women, as philanthropists, institution builders, and artists, invented the infrastructure of modern art in the United States.

The event will begin with a panel discussion on Thursday, April 5 at 5:30-7:00 (Loria 752) including the prominent art historian George Baker, Associate Professor, UCLA; artist, Andrea Geyer, and Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern art at the Yale University Art Gallery, Jennifer Gross.

On Friday, April 6 from 1-6 there will be three thematic panels with 3 papers each and a response from Baker and Gross: “Performance, Camp, and Another Modernity”; “Spaces to Play”’ and “Labors of Love: Other Institutions.”

Open to: General public
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Beinecke Library with assistance by the Department of the History of Art

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“Undergraduate Work from the School of Art,” Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, SEP 1, 2011 – JUL 31, 2012
Leonard Everett Fisher: 70 Years an Artist, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, SEP 6, 2011 – JUN 29, 2012
“While these visions did appear”: Shakespeare on Canvas, Yale Center for British Art, JAN 3 – JUN 3
“Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design,” Robert B. Haas Family Library, JAN 13 – APR 13
“Shakespeare at Yale Rep” Exhibit, Whitney Humanities Center, JAN 23 – JUN 29
“Defining the Nation,” Yale University Art Gallery, JAN 31 – APR 8
“Remembering Shakespeare,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, FEB 1 – JUN 4
“Making History: Antiquaries in Britain,” Yale Center for British Art, FEB 2 – MAY 27
“Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012,” Paul Rudolph Hall, FEB 6 – MAY 4
Yale’s Shakespeareans, Sterling Memorial Library, FEB 13 – MAY 18
“Shakespeare & the Law” at the Yale Law Library, Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, FEB 15 – AUG 15
“An Architect Drawing,” Pratt Institute, Main Building, FEB 16 – SEP 15
“Sabbath of History: William Congdon, Meditations on Holy Week,” The Knights of Columbus Museum, FEB 22 – SEP 16
“Medicine in Shakespeare’s London,” Sterling Hall of Medicine, MAR 5 – JUN 18
“The God of Our Idolatry”: Garrick and Shakespeare, The Lewis Walpole Library, MAR 12 – JUL 31
Shakespeare at the Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, MAR 13 – JUN 10
Improvising on Jazz: Ellen Priest’s Paintings on Collaged Paper, Institute of Sacred Music, MAR 20 – JUN 26
Art Exhibit: Ugandan LGBT Artists, Morse College, APR 2 – APR 8
Yale School of Art Thesis Exhibition: MFA Sculpture 2012 Part 11, Yale School of Art (Green Hall), APR 3 – APR 10