BACK TO EVENTS

11AM – 12PM Saturday, May 5, 2012

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, CT, 06510 MAP

A tour of the Center’s permanent collection. Please meet the docent at the information desk.

Open to: General public

Admission: Free

Contact Information: Yale Center for British Art, 203-432-2800

VISUAL ART

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DAY WEEK MONTH

May 2012

Exhibitions

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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

“Making History: Antiquaries in Britain,” Yale Center for British Art, FEB 2 – MAY 27

“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 in Focus” Student Guide Exhibition: “The Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting,” Yale Center for British Art, APR 13 – DEC 9

“Transparency: Four Photographers from the Yale School of Art,” Kroon Hall, APR 18 – MAY 2

MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibiton aka YGDMFA aka SpaceShuttleNewYork aka YaleGraphicDesignThesisShow12 aka GraphicMag22Release, Yale School of Art (Green Hall), APR 29 – MAY 5

“[Your Name Here]: The Ex-Libris and Image Making,” Robert B. Haas Family Library, MAY 1 – AUG 17

America Rising, Part III of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Yale University Art Gallery, MAY 8 – JUL 8

“Group Portrait” Yale MFA Photography 2012, Yale School of Art (Green Hall), MAY 9 – MAY 21

“A Joy For Ever,” Tazza Gallery, MAY 10 – JUN 21

“Spektrum Signages,” Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre – HONG KONG, MAY 17 – MAY 20

Yale at Norfolk, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, MAY 22 – JUN 24

“The Party’s Over,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, MAY 24 – JUL 6

An Architect’s Dream: Joseph Cornell, Rashid Johnson, Pipilotti Rist, Haim Steinbach, Curator’s Office, MAY 26 – MAY 30

“Constructing/Building” at Galerie Open, Galerie OPEN by Alexandra Rockelmann – GERMANY, MAY 31 – JUL 21

Curators’ Talk for Taos Contemporary, Metropolitan State University,, MAY 31 – AUG 11

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

12PM

The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture

Zoe Trodd, Faculty Fellow, Departments of English and African American Studies, Columbia University

230 Prospect

1PM

“Drawing and Painting Birds”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

THURSDAY, MAY 3

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain”

Yale Center for British Art

FRIDAY, MAY 4

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

SATURDAY, MAY 5

9:30AM

Gothic America

Ninth Annual American Art History Graduate Student Symposium

Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art

10AM

“Fundamentals of Natural Science Illustration”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

10AM

“Field Sketching”

Linda Miller

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

11AM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

SUNDAY, MAY 6

12PM

2012 Yale School of Art Open Studios

Graduate Students, Yale University School of Art

Yale School of Art (Green Hall)

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas”

Yale Center for British Art

Shakespeare

MONDAY, MAY 7

5PM

The Situationist Times Turns Fifty at Yale

Jacqueline de Jong

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Visiting Artist

TUESDAY, MAY 8

4PM

Members’ Tour: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: America Rising

Patricia E. Kane, Friends of American ARts Curator of American Decorative Arts

Yale University Art Gallery

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

12:30PM

Gallery Talk, Ah!! HoO! . . . BLAM! . . . theory: A Few Words on Text in Modern Art

Cathleen Chaffee, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Yale University Art Gallery

1PM

“Drawing and Painting Birds”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

THURSDAY, MAY 10

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain”

Yale Center for British Art

FRIDAY, MAY 11

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

SATURDAY, MAY 12

10AM

“Fundamentals of Natural Science Illustration”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

10AM

“Field Sketching”

Linda Miller

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

11AM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

12PM

Exhibition Tour, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: America Rising

YUAG

Yale University Art Gallery

SUNDAY, MAY 13

1PM

Family Program – Stories and Art

Yale University Art Gallery

Family Friendly

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain”

Yale Center for British Art

3PM

Lecture – Oscar Pettiford: “Blues in the Closet”

Wille Ruff, Professor of Music and Director of Duke Ellington Fellowship Program, Yale University

Yale University Art Gallery

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

12:15PM

Gallery Talk, Playing images: An Exploration of Music and Art

Yale University Art Gallery

6:30PM

Festival for Freedom

A Musical Celebration of the 2011 Freedom Movements Professor Alexander Nemerov

Battell Chapel

THURSDAY, MAY 17

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas”

Yale Center for British Art

Shakespeare

5:30PM

Lecture – Circulations: Transit, Mechanics, and the Movement at the Heart of American Art

Jennifer Roberts, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Yale University Art Gallery

FRIDAY, MAY 18

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

SATURDAY, MAY 19

10AM

“Fundamentals of Natural Science Illustration”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

10AM

“Field Sketching”

Linda Miller

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

SUNDAY, MAY 20

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas”

Yale Center for British Art

Shakespeare

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

12:30PM

Gallery Talk – The Image of the West

Yale University Art Gallery

THURSDAY, MAY 24

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain”

Yale Center for British Art

5:30PM

The Art of Civility: A Conversation between Amor Towles and Jock Reynolds

Amor Towles and Jock Reynolds

Yale University Art Gallery

Visiting Artist

FRIDAY, MAY 25

12PM

Furniture Study Tour

YUAG

Yale University Art Gallery

2PM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

SATURDAY, MAY 26

10AM

“Fundamentals of Natural Science Illustration”

Dorie Petrochko

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

10AM

“Field Sketching”

Linda Miller

Yale Peabody Museum Community Education Center

11:15AM

Introductory Tour

Yale Center for British Art

1:30PM

Highlights Tour

YUAG

Yale University Art Gallery

SUNDAY, MAY 27

1PM

Exhibition Tour: “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain”

Yale Center for British Art

THURSDAY, MAY 31

11AM

Exhibition Tour: “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas”

Yale Center for British Art

Shakespeare

5:30PM

Master Class, Expanding America’s Boundaries (II)

Yale University Art Gallery