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“Van Gogh’s Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Rémy”
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Two of Vincent van Gogh’s most renowned paintings, “Cypresses” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and “The Starry Night” (Museum of Modern Art, New York) will be presented side by side for the first time in New England. The installation will be on view from June 15-September 7.

To ensure a leisurely viewing, obtain your free timed tickets online at http://artgallery.yale.edu. Tickets are available now.

“Here…is our handy guide to what’s happening at area museums this summer:”

A Beautiful Summer In Store: Works By Sloane, Gainsborough, Van Gogh, Chihuly, Picasso Highlight Art Shows In Region, By MATT EAGAN, Hartford Courant May 22, 2008

Posted by: Tanya

Sarah Oppenheimer. “Contained,” 2005

Sarah Oppenheimer uses Architecture to Generate a Filmic Exprience at the Saint Louis Art Museum Art Daily

Oppenheimer is a critic at the Yale School of Art.

Posted by: Tanya

“The relationship between image, history and memory will be explored at a graduate student conference titled ‘Photographic Proofs,’ to be held Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, at Yale.”

The relationship between photography, history and memory examined in student conference Yale Bulletin “March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23

“Works by sculptor Joseph Saccio, a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, are on exhibit now through April 24 at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and the Community Services Network (CSN).

The exhibit is the first for The Parachute Factory, which is the organization’s new arts initiative and shares space with PRCH and CSN at 319 Peck St., Erector Square.”

New exhibition space hosts show exploring themes of loss, renewal March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

“Religious images by African-American artists that portray ‘biblical teachings, the hallowed bodies, the celebrations and sorrows, the politics and poets, [and] the grief and gratitude’ are featured in a new exhibition at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).”

‘Visual Exegesis’ features artistic interpretations of biblical texts March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

“The timeless Passover Haggadah text will be celebrated in a new exhibition opening on Tuesday, April 1, at Sterling Memorial Library.”

Exhibition features Haggadah illustrations by modern artists March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

Posted by: Tanya 

Allan Appel

“Hill Regional Career High School seniors Malik Graves and Lorraine Gabriel know plenty of people their age who have enlisted in the armed forces for the bonus money. They are exactly the audience artist Baptiste Ibar hoped would view his ‘Guided Men,’ Artspace’s latest installation in The Lot, tucked away just in from the corner at Chapel and Orange.”

“Guided Men” at the Lot Allan Appel NHI 3/4/08

Posted by Chris

“‘A New World: England’s First View of America’ at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, distinguishes the 16th century artist [John White] and gives him his due, by featuring nearly all of his works, including a collection of Algonquian Indian drawings, his maps and charts, watercolors of the Inuit people and depictions of conquering Britons. The White portfolio, housed in the archives of the British Museum and unlikely to be seen by this generation inside a gallery again after its stop at Yale and then in Jamestown, Va., consists of the only surviving British prints of the colonies’ natives, their local flora and fauna and surviving visual record of England’s first settlements of North America.”

Discovering A New World, In Art
Little-Known Painter Provided 16th-century England With Its First Views Of America
By ADRIAN BRUNE, Hartford Courant 3/6/08

Posted by: Tanya

An exhibit of works in the color gray by Jasper Johns is currently on display at the Met in New York City. Johns once claimed gray to be his favorite color, which should be incentive enough to check out this show. The Met’s website includes images from the exhibit, too. Robert Storr, the Dean of the Yale School of Art, said the following about John in a recent New York Times article on Johns:

“Without question he’s one of the most important painters of his generation … He put bits and pieces of painting and conceptual practice together in a way that nobody has done.”

Jasper Johns: Gray is on display until May 4.

Posted by: Ian

Edward Ruscha. Phillips 66, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1962. From Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations, 1963. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. © Ed Ruscha.

The exhibit on artist Ed Ruscha’s long standing use of photography is currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Last weekend I attended a symposium on Ruscha, featuring the man himself. The highlight of his talk was a comparison of the portraits on the $10 & $20 bills. The subtly different portraits, Ruscha claimed, convey different messages. The old Jackson is a model of dignity while the new Jackson looks like a guy waiting in line at Starbucks. See for yourself. Oh, and other people talked about Ruscha’s work and its relationship to photography, including noted rabble rouser Dave Hickey.

Gallery Explores America’s First Performance Artists New Haven Independent
Allan Appel | February 26, 2008

On Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Through May 4, 2008 at the Yale Art Gallery

Posted by Tanya

Park Avenue Armory

The New York Sun has a great piece on the Louis I. Kahn’s travel sketches on exhibit at the “Works on Paper” fair at the Park Avenue Armory, opening February 29th.

A Mind Full of Roman Greatness Paula Deitz New York Sun 2/26/08

“To view these sketches chronologically, then, is to be present during the evolution of one of the master architects of the 20th century, whose buildings have enriched our culture because they represent a continuity with the past, not precisely in form but in spirit.”

Posted by Chris

The Art of Friendship: Yale Exhibit On Stylish 1920s Couple Captures Spirit Of The Lost Generation
By FRANK RIZZO | Hartford Courant February 22, 2008

Yale Center for British Art will ‘Lure’ you in with its most recent exhibit BY TRACEY O’SHAUGHNESSY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN 2/23/08

Posted by: Tanya

Award-winning Yale building design projects are highlighted in traveling exhibition February 22, 2008|Volume 36, Number 19 Yale Bulletin

“Two Yale building design projects received Honor Awards from American Institute of Architects (AIA) Connecticut and are featured in the group’s traveling exhibition, which will be on view throughout the month of March at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St.”

Posted by: Tanya

Artspace exhibit a bit unsettled, but reorganized space has fun finds By Judy Birke New Haven Register 2/17/08

“In the wake of a new administration, there have been some changes in the gallery. There are now seven exhibition spaces, each simultaneously hosting an individual show. Gallery One is the major area. It hosts the larger shows, while Galleries 2-7 offer smaller displays dedicated to solo exhibits. All in all, it becomes a great opportunity to see what’s happening in the studios of many of today’s artists.

“The current exhibit in Gallery One, ‘Unnameable Things’ is a group show of 17 pieces by seven artists, all working in New York City, four of whom got their MFA degrees at Yale. It is curated by Clint Jukkala.”

Artspace website

Posted by: Tanya

Aerial view of the partially completed Hollywood-Santa Ana Freeway in California. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

In an act of shameless self promotion I am plugging an exhibit I put together at the Arts of the Book Collection, part of the Arts Library, in Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibit is titles Views of Los Angeles, The City Beautiful and it examines the social and cultural context of several of Ed Ruscha’s artist’s books withing the development and mythology of Los Angeles and the American West.

Here is a link to an article in the Yale Bulletin about the exhibit. Views of Los Angeles, The City Beautiful runs through December 20, 2007. Arts of the Book is open from 10-12 & 1-4, Monday-Thursday.

Posted by: Ian M.

Ed Kienholz, Back Seat Dodge ‘38, 1964. Courtesy of LACMA

A new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and70s of the LACMA Collection,” provides an overview of that fertile period of art making in that region. The show includes work by Ed Kienholz, Bettye Saar, James Turrell, Billy Al Bengston, and many others. the exhibit runs through March 30, 2007.

In particular, the show presents Ed Kienholz’s once-controversial sculpture/installation “Back Seat Dodge ‘38″ from 1964 as it was originally intended to be seen. The work shows a couple, in flagrante delicto, in the back seat of said Dodge automobile. For years the work was displayed on a pedestal in the middle of well-lit gallery. For this show “Back Seat” has been installed as Kienholz envisioned, according the deceased artist’s wife:

”Ed always said that the best installation was one that would make it look like you came upon this couple at night, up at a necker’s spot on Mulholland Drive,” said Lyn Kienholz, who was married to the artist when he created the sculpture in 1964 and who sold it to the museum in 1981. ”It would only be illuminated by the car’s headlights and the light inside the car.”

”The radio would always be on, and the car would be surrounded by plants,” she added, as if the couple had tried to hide themselves in the weeds to avoid being found by the police or the prying eyes of others.

To achieve that effect, Carol S. Eliel, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art, who organized the show and oversaw the new installation, placed the work in a small, dim alcove whose walls are painted dark gray. A four-foot doorway allows a viewer to see into the car’s interior but restricts the ability to see the entire car without peering around a corner or past plants.”

LACMA also has a history of the work available on their website.

Posted by: Ian M.