Past exhibitions and programs

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Compilation of program participants' work, The View from Here, Yale Center for British Art
Exhibitions

The View From Here

Monday, August 16–Sunday, October 10, 2021

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

Art in Focus: Women From the Center

Thursday, January 14–Sunday, October 10, 2021

Peter Doig, photo by Rain Riyahi
Talks

at home: Artists in Conversation | Peter Doig

Friday, October 1, 2021, 12–1 pm

Joseph Wright of Derby, Vesuvius from Posillipo, ca. 1788, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Talks

at home: Digital Docents | George Stubbs and Joseph Wright of Derby: The Horse Painter and the House Painter

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 12–12:30 pm

Print made by James Basire after Frederick Mackenzie, Vol. 6, Plate XXVI: Chapel of St Stephen, Chapel of St Mary in the Vaults (detail), 1842, Engraving on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Talks

at home: Art in Context | Illustrating Archaeological Context

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 12:30–1 pm

Hilton Als, photo by Ali Smith; Adrienne Edwards, photo by Bryan Derballa; Horace D. Ballard, photo by Jessica Smolinski; Christine Y. Kim photo by Lulu
Talks

at home: Artists in Conversation: A Curator’s Beginnings: Why We Look, and How

Monday, September 27, 2021, 12–1 pm

Titus Kaphar, photo by Merik Goma
Talks

at home: Symposium | In Conversation: Titus Kaphar and art collectors Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen

Friday, September 17, 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
Exhibitions

Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions

Monday, June 21–Monday, August 23, 2021

Katherine Hamnett, photo Michael Dunlea
Talks

at home: Artists in Conversation | Katharine Hamnett

Friday, August 13, 2021, 12–1 pm

Installation of Titus Kaphar's Enough About You (2016) at the Yale Center for British Art, October 2020, on loan from the Collection of Arthur Lewis and Hau Nguyen, Courtesy of the artist, photo by Richard Caspole
Talks

at home: Symposium | Curatorial Practice and the Museum: Contextualization and Narratives

Friday, August 6, 2021, 12–1:30 pm

Thomas Gainsborough, John and Ann Gravenor With Their Daughters Elizabeth and Ann, The Gravenor Family, 1755, Yale Center For British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Talks

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
Talks

at home: Symposium | Art History: Hierarchies of Representation

Friday, July 23, 2021, 12–1:30 pm

Jann Hanworth, photo by Alex Johnstone
Talks

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
Talks

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
Talks

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
Talks

at home: Artists in Conversation | Yinka Shonibare CBE RA

Friday, June 18, 2021, 12–1 pm

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, photo by Brigitte Sire
Talks

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
Tours

at home: Digital Docents | Introductory Tour

Friday, June 11, 2021, 12:30–1 pm