Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
On 21 February 2009, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT, are organising a one-day graduate symposium that will explore ways in which art overlaps with science, and with a focus on material objects. Possible topics are: networks of artists and scientists artist/scientist collaborations art and the natural world the philosophical concept of the sublime theology,...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
New Haven, CT - This fall the Yale Center for British Art will serve as the first and only venue for a small but fascinating exhibition about a late eighteenth-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and that sheds light on a number of intriguing technical and historical issues. Benjamn West and the Venetian Secret brings together paintings and works on paper pertaining to the hoax...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
An exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art celebrates the importance of English artists in raising a medium once thought of as purely utilitarian into something appropriate to the demands of ambitious art.
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Here's a painting by a great British artist who was rightly admired in his day for his clever use of minimal lighting to create dramatic effects: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). He also produced fine portraits as well as his "candlelight" paintings. This example is Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candle-light (1765), one of the exhibits in Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool , which opened...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Yesterday the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven opened A New World: England's first view of America . This exhibition displays more than 70 watercolours by the Elizabethan artist John White, who sailed with the earliest expedition to "Virginia" in 1585 and whose illustrations introduced England to the New World. I previewed this fascinating exhibition when it was first shown at the British Museum...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
NEW HAVEN, CT - This spring, the Yale Center for British Art will present an extraordinary exhibition of watercolors and drawings by John White (fl . 1585–93), the Elizabethan gentleman-artist most responsible for shaping England's first view of America and its inhabitants. In 1585, White sailed with the earliest expedition to “Virginia” (on the coast of present-day North Carolina) and produced a...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
The media is getting excited about Liverpool's year-long stint as a European Capital of Culture , which kicks off tonight with Ringo Star drumming on the roof of St George's Hall ( CLICK ). Before all this daft and eco-unfriendly razzmatazz puts you off visiting Liverpool, I thought you might like to know that some genuine art is to be found there. The Walker Art Gallery is showing a major exhibition...
diaphania (Free subscription) | 09/12/2007
An acquaintance (whose accent locates him in the mid-atlantic, but whose...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
Ori Gersht's thirteen minute The Forest (2005), screening daily at the Yale Center for British Art in one hour increments (now through December 28th), depicts a series of trees falling unobserved – save for the camera and audio recording equipment – in an undisclosed forested location or set of locations. Gersht modifies the camera location, angle of view, mobility of the apparatus, speed of the celluloid...
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
City Gallery 994 State St., New Haven, (203) 782-2489 Barbara Harder: Seeing Through To... Oct. 11—Nov. 18, 2007. Opening reception, Sat., Oct. 21, 12—5 p.m. Press release The public is invited to the Opening Reception on Sun., Oct. 21, 12—5 p.m., as part of the City-Wide Open Studios 10th Anniversary celebration. Barbara Harder says: Seeing Through To... was motivated by a trip to Japan and the beautiful...
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 13/10/2007
Here's a gem: George Stubbs' Button (1763). A gem of an exhibition too: An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy opens in the Sackler Wing of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on 20 October 2007 and continues until 27 January 2008. This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon, rich Yank, anglophile and all round good egg who had the impeccable taste to collect...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 21/04/2007
A special cadre of chemists can turn back the clock on cultural treasures, rescuing masterpieces from the deterioration that builds up over centuries.
