Past exhibitions and programs

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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