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–Friday, December 31, 2021

Damien Hirst, In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) (detail), 1991, © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2020

Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections

Thursday, October 1, 2020–Friday, December 31, 2021

Joy Gregory, Autoportrait (detail), 2006, giclée print, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Joy Gregory

Art in Focus: Women From the Center

Thursday, January 14–Sunday, October 3, 2021

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (detail) 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Digital Docents | Introductory Tour

Friday, June 11, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, photo by Brigitte Sire

at home: Artists in Conversation | Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 12–1 pm

Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, photo by James Mollison © Yinka Shonibare Studio

at home: Artists in Conversation | Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Friday, June 18, 2021, 12–1 pm

Film still from John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison's Numen (2014), courtesy of the artists and Smoking Dogs Films, London, © John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison

Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions

Monday, June 21–Monday, August 23, 2021

Summer Teacher Institute participants in the galleries (2017), Yale Center for British Art, photo by Camilla Parente

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Virtual Summer Teacher Institute: How Do We Look?

Monday, June 21, 2021, 9:30 am–12:30 pm

Summer Teacher Institute participants in the galleries (2017), Yale Center for British Art, photo by Camilla Parente

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Virtual Summer Teacher Institute: How Do We Look?

Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 9:30 am–12:30 pm

Summer Teacher Institute participants in the galleries (2017), Yale Center for British Art, photo by Camilla Parente

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Virtual Summer Teacher Institute: How Do We Look?

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 9:30 am–12:30 pm

Summer Teacher Institute participants in the galleries (2017), Yale Center for British Art, photo by Camilla Parente

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Virtual Summer Teacher Institute: How Do We Look?

Thursday, June 24, 2021, 9:30 am–12:30 pm

Left to right: John Akomfrah at his London studio, 2016, © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films, London, and Lisson Gallery, New York, photo by Jack Hems; Trevor Mathison, photo by Aniruddha Das

at home: Artists in Conversation | John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison

Friday, June 25, 2021, 12–1 pm

Film still from Margaret Tait's Colour Poems (1974), courtesy of the artist and LUX, London, © Margaret Tait

at home: Opening Program | Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions

Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Print made by Bridget Riley, Blue and Pink (detail), 2001, screen print on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Elderfield and Jeanne Collins, © Bridget Riley 2020. All rights reserved

Bridget Riley

Thursday, March 3–Sunday, July 24, 2022

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