Past exhibitions and programs

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Thomas Gainsborough, John and Ann Gravenor With Their Daughters Elizabeth and Ann, The Gravenor Family, 1755, Yale Center For British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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at home: Digital Docents | Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough

Thursday, July 29, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Tilly Kettle, Dancing Girl, 1772, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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at home: Symposium | Art History: Hierarchies of Representation

Friday, July 23, 2021, 12–1:30 pm

Jann Hanworth, photo by Alex Johnstone
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Jann Haworth

Friday, July 16, 2021, 12–1 pm

Film still from Margaret Tait's Colour Poems (1974), courtesy of the artist and LUX, London, © Margaret Tait
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at home: Opening Program | Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions

Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 12:30–1:30 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
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at home: Artists in Conversation | John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison

Friday, June 25, 2021, 12–1 pm

Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, photo by James Mollison © Yinka Shonibare Studio
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Friday, June 18, 2021, 12–1 pm

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, photo by Brigitte Sire
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 12–1 pm

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
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at home: Digital Docents | Introductory Tour

Friday, June 11, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Duro Olowu, photo by Uzoamaka Maduka
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Duro Olowu

Friday, June 4, 2021, 12–1 pm

Cecily Brown, image by Mark Hartman
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Cecily Brown

Friday, May 21, 2021, 12–1 pm

Grace Wales Bonner, photo by Jamie Morgan
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Grace Wales Bonner

Friday, May 14, 2021, 12–1 pm

Book cover, On Center: The Late Architectural Philosophy of Louis I. Kahn as Expressed in the Yale Center for British Art
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at home: Book Discussion | The Late Architectural Philosophy of Louis I. Kahn

Friday, May 7, 2021, 12–1 pm

Courtesy Hurvin Anderson, © Sebastian Nevols
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Hurvin Anderson

Friday, April 30, 2021, 12–1 pm

Attributed to John Verelst, The family of Elihu Yale and an Enslaved Child (detail), ca. 1719, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Cavendish, eleventh Duke of Devonshire, B1970.1
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at home: Art in Context | New light on a portrait of Elihu Yale, his family, and an enslaved child

Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Shirin Neshat, photo by Rodolfo Martinez
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Shirin Neshat

Friday, April 23, 2021, 12–1 pm

Photo of Michael Craig-Martin by Caroline True
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at home: Artists in Conversation | Michael Craig-Martin

Friday, April 16, 2021, 12–1 pm

An-My Lê, photo by John Pilson
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at home: Artists in Conversation | An-My Lê

Friday, April 9, 2021, 12–1 pm

Marisa Angell Brown, photo by Susan Fisher
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at home: Lecture | Model City

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 12–1 pm