• The Center is delighted to announce the appointment of our new director, Courtney J. Martin.
  • On View | Victorian Idyll
  • Musical Performance | Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London
  • Symposium | Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London
  • On View | William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
  • On View | Instruction and Delight: Children’s Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection
  • On View | Art in Focus: Blue
  • The Center is delighted to announce the appointment of our new director, Courtney J. Martin.

    Announcement

    The Center is delighted to announce the appointment of our new director, Courtney J. Martin.

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  • On View | Victorian Idyll

    On View
    January 24–April 21, 2019

    Victorian Idyll

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  • Musical Performance | Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London

    Musical Performance
    Thursday, April 25, 5:30 pm

    Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London

    Featuring Tunde Jegede, kora and cello; Robin Jeffrey, lute, baroque guitar, and Moroccan lute; Corey Shotwell, vocals; and Nathaniel Mander, harpsichord

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  • Symposium | Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London

    Symposium
    Friday, April 26, 9 am–5 pm

    Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London

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  • On View
    February 14–May 20, 2019

    William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum

    This exhibition is organized by the Center in partnership with The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow.

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  • On View | Instruction and Delight: Children’s Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection

    On View
    January 17–May 23, 2019

    Instruction and Delight:
    Children’s Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection

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  • On View | Art in Focus: Blue

    On View
    April 5–August 11, 2019

    Art in Focus: Blue

    The student guide curators for this exhibition are Merritt Barnwell, SY ’21; Sunnie Liu, MC ’21; Sohum Pal, BR ’20; Jordan Schmolka, BK ’20; and Muriel Wang, TB ’20.

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, A Sketch for the Entombment (detail), ca. 1639–55, oil on oak panel, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

ANNOUNCEMENT

Courtney J. Martin, photo by Winnie Gier

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William Henry Hunt, Bird's Nest with Sprays of Apple Blossoms (detail), ca. 1847, watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

PUBLICATIONS

Cover detail, William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum

YALE IN LONDON

Summer 2018 | Yale in London students at the Anthony Gormley exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Visitors in the Turner Bay, fourth-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Harold Shapiro

LONG GALLERY

Long Gallery, fourth floor, Yale Center for British Art, photograph by Richard Caspole

MUSEUM SHOP

Classic Batchel in red leather, courtesy of the Cambridge Satchel Company