Exhibitions and programs

Britain in the World installation, fourth-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole

Britain in the World: A Display of the Collections

Friday, September 25, 2020–Sunday, February 26, 2023

John McHale, "Aluminum Head" (detail), 1956, from the John McHale Archive, ca. 1950–78, black ink on white paper and aluminum foil. Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale

Interior Dialogues: Works from the Collection

Wednesday, August 24, 2022–Sunday, January 22, 2023

Two hundred eighty five sticks arranged in a circle on a wooden floor.

Richard Long: Quantock Wood Circle

Wednesday, August 24, 2022–Sunday, February 19, 2023

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, "The Beautyful Ones" Series #1C (detail), 2014, acrylic, colored pencil, and transfers on paper, © Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Thursday, September 22, 2022–Sunday, January 22, 2023

Bill Brandt, Henry Moore (detail), 1948, gelatin silver print, Hyman Collection, London, © Bill Brandt/Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

Bill Brandt | Henry Moore

Thursday, November 17, 2022–Sunday, February 26, 2023

"Bill Brandt | Henry Moore" installation, third-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole

Art in Context | Sculpture and Photography: A New Look at Bill Brandt and Henry Moore

Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Photo of Zineb Sedira, courtesy of the artist; Photo of Alberta Whittle by Matthew A. Williams

at home: Artists in Conversation | Zineb Sedira and Alberta Whittle

Friday, December 2, 2022, 12–1 pm

Children making art projects at the Yale Center for British Art, photo by Matt Capezzuto

Family Programs

Make Time!

Saturday, December 3, 2022, 11:00 am–3 pm

"The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby" installation, second-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole

Art in Context | Diasporic Collage: Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s “The Beautiful Ones”

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Hilton Als, photo by Ali Smith

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture | A Conversation with Hilton Als

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm

The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby installation, second-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole, All works © Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

at home: In Conversation | Ainehi Edoro and Emmanuel Iduma on the The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Friday, December 9, 2022, 2–3 pm

Exploring Artism participants, Yale Center for British Art, photo courtesy of the Education Department

Access Programs

Exploring Artism: A Program for Families with Children on the Autism Spectrum

Saturday, December 10, 2022, 10:30 am–12 pm

Lilliputian journal excerpt, photo by Katie Trumpener

at home: Art in Context | The World of the Blitz: Brandt, Moore, Lilliput

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Richard Long, "Quantock Wood Circle" (detail), 1981, courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater

Works on the Floor Symposium

Friday, December 16, 2022

The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby installation, second-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole, All works © Njideka Akunyili Crosby, courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

Ayi Kwei Armah’s “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born” (1968), an Inspiration

Friday, January 20, 2023, 12–1 pm

Isokon Flats, Hampstead by Well Coates 1934, photographed circa 1978 by Kenneth J. Gill (Wikimedia user:Gillfoto), Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0

Call for Papers | Isokon Symposium

Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 5:00 pm

Isokon Flats, Hampstead by Well Coates 1934, photographed circa 1978 by Kenneth J. Gill (Wikimedia user:Gillfoto), Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0

Isokon Symposium

Friday, April 21, 2023

Michel-Jean Cazabon, "La Digue Maraval" (detail), 1851, pen and brush with brown ink and washes over graphite with touches of white gouache on buff paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Michel-Jean Cazabon, Trinidad, and Traditions of Landscape Drawing

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Artist once known, "Breadfruit Plant (Artocarpus altilis)," ca. 1800, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Company Painting: Artists and the British East India Company, 1760–1830

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Installation of Hew Locke’s "The Wine Dark Sea" (2016) in the second-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole, December 2021

Hew Locke

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Agostino Aglio after Central Mexican Artists, “Fac-simile of an Original Mexican Painting Preserved in the Borgian Museum, at the College of Propaganda in Rome” [Codex Borgia, f. 59], in volume 3 of 'Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Fac-similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics' by Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough. London: Published by Robert Havell and Colnaghi, Son, and Co (detail), 1831, hand-colored lithograph. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Agostino Aglio and Mexican Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamouni, Switzerland" (detail), 1803, Watercolor, graphite, gum, scraping out and stopping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Turner 250

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