Past exhibitions and programs

Students examine works in the Yale Center for British Art Study Room, Photo by Harold Shapiro

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Accepting Applications | Curatorial Forum

Monday, March 21, 2022, 5:00 pm

Photo of Hylan Booker by C. Grad

at home: Artists in Conversation | Hylan Booker

Friday, March 18, 2022, 12–1 pm

Browsing the "British Art Studies" table of contents, photo courtesy of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Conferences, Meetings & Seminars

Publishing in the Humanities: the Peer-Reviewed Journal

Friday, March 11, 2022, 11:30 am–12:15 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

Black History Month

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 12:00 am–Monday, February 28, 2022, 11:59 pm

Installation view: Rachel Rose at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2022.

Traveling Exhibitions and Loans

Rachel Rose: Enclosure

Friday, January 14, 2022–Saturday, February 26, 2022

Billy Gerard Frank, photo by Evan Ortiz

at home: Artists in Conversation | Billy Gerard Frank

Friday, February 25, 2022, 12–1 pm

Spencer Frederick Gore, "Cambrian Road, Richmond" (detail), 1913 to 1914, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

at home: Digital Docents | The Calm Before the Storm: Spencer Frederick Gore and Walter Sickert

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Jonathan Richardson the Elder, "Self-Portrait" (detail), ca. 1720, Red chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Arms Wick

at home: Art in Context | Family, Friends, and Self: Jonathan Richardson’s Portraits on Paper

Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 12–1 pm

"Lumen," 2021. Digital video mastered on 4K. Duration: 30 minutes. Colour with sound. © Sutapa Biswas. All rights reserved, DACS 2021.

Film & Media Screenings

Sutapa Biswas, "Lumen"

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:30 am–Monday, February 21, 2022, 11:59 pm

Photo by Theo Deproost for ITV Creates

at home: Artists in Conversation | Sutapa Biswas

Friday, February 18, 2022, 12–1 pm

Maria Mok, photo © Hong Kong Museum of Art

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Maria Mok

Friday, February 11, 2022, 9–10 am

Sonia Boyce, photo by Sarah Weal; Simone Leigh, photo by Shaniqwa Jarvis

at home: Artists in Conversation | Sonia Boyce and Simone Leigh

Friday, February 4, 2022, 12–1 pm

George Stubbs, "Pumpkin with a Stable-lad" (detail), 1774, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Digital Docents | A Horse Lover's Guide to the YCBA

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Unknown artist, sixteenth century, Formerly Steven van der Meulen, "Portrait of a Young Woman" (detail), 1567, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Art in Context | Dress and Jewelry in Portraits of the Elizabethan Period

Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 12–1 pm

Courtesy of the artist and Southard Reid, Photo by Henry Mills

at home: Artists in Conversation | Prem Sahib

Friday, January 21, 2022, 12–1 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

Call for Papers | Bridget Riley Symposium

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 5:00 pm

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–Sunday, January 2, 2022

Max McClure. © Veronica Ryan. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Spike Island, Bristol, and Alison Jacques, London

at home: Artists in Conversation | Veronica Ryan

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12–1 pm