Past exhibitions and programs

Paintings on display in the fourth floor gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Marc Quinn: History Painting +

Saturday, August 6, 2022, 2–3 pm

Woman in black shirt gestures at a painting to small group of onlookers, including woman in green shirt and black blazer and woman in striped shirt and denim jacket.

Introductory Tour

Saturday, August 6, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Cover, The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

at home: Book Discussion | "The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn" with Richard Saul Wurman

Friday, August 5, 2022, 12–1 pm

Introductory Tour

Introductory Tour

Thursday, August 4, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Paintings on display in the fourth floor gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Marc Quinn: History Painting +

Saturday, July 30, 2022, 2–3 pm

Museum docent and visitors sit in a semi-circle on stools in a gallery hung floor-to-ceiling with paintings.

Introductory Tour

Saturday, July 30, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Museum docent and visitors sit in a semi-circle on stools in a gallery hung floor-to-ceiling with paintings.

Introductory Tour

Thursday, July 28, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Children making crafts, using brightly colored pipe cleaners, pompoms, tape, markers, and other supplies at the Yale Center for British Art, photo by Harold Shapiro

Family Programs

Portico Projects

Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 2–4 pm

Bridget Riley, "New Day" (detail), 1988, oil on canvas, Bridget Riley Collection © 2022 Bridget Riley, all rights reserved.

Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction

Thursday, March 3, 2022–Sunday, July 24, 2022

Paintings on display in the fourth floor gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Marc Quinn: History Painting +

Sunday, July 24, 2022, 2–3 pm

Painting by Bridget Riley on view in gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction

Sunday, July 24, 2022, 2–3 pm

Painting by Bridget Riley on view in gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction

Saturday, July 23, 2022, 2–3 pm

Paintings on display in the fourth floor gallery.

Special Exhibition Tour | Marc Quinn: History Painting +

Saturday, July 23, 2022, 2–3 pm

Woman in black shirt gestures at a painting to small group of onlookers, including woman in green shirt and black blazer and woman in striped shirt and denim jacket.

Introductory Tour

Saturday, July 23, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Photo courtesy of Bob Holman

Perceptual Abstraction: Poetry Readings

Friday, July 22, 2022, 1–2 pm

Bridget Riley, "White Discs 3," 2019/1964, acrylic on polyester, Bridget Riley Collection © Bridget Riley 2022. All rights reserved.

at home: Digital Docents | Bridget Riley

Thursday, July 21, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Museum docent and visitors sit in a semi-circle on stools in a gallery hung floor-to-ceiling with paintings.

Introductory Tour

Thursday, July 21, 2022, 11:00 am–12 pm

Bridget Riley, "Arrest 2" (detail), 1965, synthetic emulsion on canvas, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

at home: Art in Context | Grayscale: On Bridget Riley's "Breakthrough" into Color

Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm