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A camera obscura is the age-old principle behind that physics-class favorite, the pinhole camera. Let light from a small opening enter a dark space, and an inverted image of what’s on the other side of the opening will be projected within.

Camera obscura pictures make up half of the 36 images in “Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell,” which runs at the Yale University Art Gallery through Aug. 10. The exhibition is in the way of a homecoming. Morell, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, has a master of fine arts degree from Yale. He’ll be artist in residence there this academic year.

Morell’s photos balance austerity and playfullness Mark Feeney Boston Globe 6/20/08

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July is an exciting time to visit the Gallery. Enjoy three photography exhibitions, a special van Gogh installation, and numerous lunchtime talks.

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Images and the Cold War Legacy
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Wednesday 2, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Maria Taroutina, ph.d. candidate, History of Art, Yale University.

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The Little Faces Are the Real Ones: Miniature Masks from West Africa
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Wednesday 9, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Frederick John Lamp, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art, Yale University Art Gallery.

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Not Quite Right: The Peculiar in Art
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Friday 11, 3:00 PM
This gallery tour will be given by Elissa Dunn, BK ‘09.

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Film Screening, “Shadow of the House”
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Saturday 12, 2:00 PM
“Shadow of the House” is a documentary film about contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell, followed by a talk with the filmmaker Allie Humenuk. “Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell” is on view at the Gallery through August 10.

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Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell
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Wednesday 16, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Christine Paglia, the Florence B. Selden Curatorial Intern, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery.

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Not Quite Right: The Peculiar in Art
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Friday 18, 3:00 PM
This gallery tour will be given by Elissa Dunn, BK ‘09.

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Film Screening, “Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh”
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Saturday 19, 2:00 PM
“Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh,” directed by Paul Cox, is shown in conjunction with the Gallery’s presentation of “Van Gogh’s ‘Cypresses’ and ‘The Starry Night’: Visions of Saint-Rémy.”

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The Earliest Italian Painters: Art in the Age of Dante
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Wednesday 23, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Laurence Kanter, the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art, Yale University Art Gallery.

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Film Screening, “Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh”
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Saturday 26, 2:00 PM
“Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh,” directed by Paul Cox, is shown in conjunction with the Gallery’s presentation of “Van Gogh’s ‘Cypresses’ and ‘The Starry Night’: Visions of Saint-Rémy.”

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The Story of Porcelain in East Asia
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Wednesday 30, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by David Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery.

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Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu

The Yale University Art Gallery and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas invite you to attend a gallery tour

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From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry
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Saturday, June 28, 4:00 PM

This gallery tour will be presented by Sarah Stolfa, M.F.A. 2008. Stolfa is one of the student curators who organized the exhibition “From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry.” This exhibition celebrates the remarkable photography collection of Doris Bry currently on long-term loan to the Gallery. Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Laura Gilpin, and Garry Winogrand, among others.

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Yale University Art Gallery
Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
HTTP://ARTGALLERY.YALE.EDU

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Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell
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Wednesday 25, 12:20 PM

This special gallery talk will be presented by Abelardo Morell, the Happy and Bob Doran Artist in Residence, Yale University Art
Gallery. The exhibition “Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell” is on view at the Gallery from June 24 to August 10.

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PLUS!! For details on guided tours by Gallery Guides and museum docents, please visit our online calendar at http://artgallery.yale.edu.

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“One of the Prizes from Athens”: A Panathenaic Amphora by the Kleophrades Painter
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Wednesday 18, 12:20 PM

This free gallery talk will be presented by Lisa R. Brody, Associate Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery.

PLUS!! For details on guided tours by Gallery Guides and museum docents, please visit our online calendar at http://artgallery.yale.edu

“Last summer, Indiana Jones took over downtown New Haven and now a comedy is filming in Wooster Square.”

More movie magic in New Haven WTNH.com May 27, 2008

Find some of last year’s photos of New Haven decked out for the new Indiana Jones movie at This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow

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Photos of last week’s MFA Painting Thesis show are up at the main Art School Gallery website.

Photos from the MFA Sculpture 3 show are up on the Archives page.

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Drawn for Print: Images Designed to be Multiplied
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Tuesday 8, 4:00 PM

“Drawn for Print: Images Designed to be Multiplied” will be presented by Suzanne Boorsch, the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art:
Making Murphy New
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Friday 11, 5:30 PM

“Making Murphy New” will be presented by Wanda Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University.

This talk will be followed by a reception and viewing of the exhibition “Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy.”

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, March 31 at 7:00 pm:

Repetition: A Panel Discussion Green Hall, 353 Crown Street, Lower Level With: Tony Conrad, Ann Craven, Leslie Hewitt, Haim Steinbach and moderator Matt Keegan.

Tuesday, April 1 at 1:30 pm:

Janine Antoni, Visiting Artist in Photography will give a lecture. Room G-10 “The Pool” Green Hall, 1156 Chapel Street.

Wednesday, April 2:

10:30 am: Mowry Baden, Visiting Artist in Sculpture will give a lecture. Hammond Hall, 14 Mansfield Street.

7:00 pm: Kyle Cooper, MFA, GD, ‘88: “Faith and the Filmmaker”Aud., WHC, 53 Wall Street. Kyle Cooper, MFA, GD, 1988, founder and president, Prologue Films, will talk and present his work.

“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

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WORK AT HAND : Jessica Stockholder – Recent Work.

Summit to focus on ways to make campus ‘greener’ March 21, 2008|Volume 36, Number 22 Yale Bulletin

“Actions the University has already taken to become a ‘greener’ campus and work that has yet to be done will be discussed during the first Yale Sustainability Summit taking place Monday-Friday, March 31-April 4.”

Find out more information at the website for the Yale Office of Sustainability.

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Hines Fund will promote sustainable architectural design February 22, 2008|Volume 36, Number 19 Yale Bulletin

“To celebrate the establishment of the Hines Endowed Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architectural Design, the Yale School of Architecture will host a major symposium April 4-5 reexamining fundamental assumptions of sustainable design.

“Titled ‘Sustainable Architecture, Today and Tomorrow: Reframing the Discourse,’ the symposium will call upon experts and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to take stock of the movement in sustainable architecture thus far and to explore new directions ‘designing green’ might take.”

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Pelli, Andreu expound on architectural theory Zeke Miller and Paul Needham Yale Daily News 2/21/08

“Monday’s discussion was characterized by Andreu’s obvious emotional attachment to his work. The famed architect of airports such as Charles de Gaulle in Paris — and whose recent work, the new Opera House in Beijing, is making an international splash in the architectural world — explained that the end of a project provides an opportunity for reflection on architectural ideas.

“’When you finish a big work you get the baby blues,’ he said. ‘And the only way to cure it is to go back to some origin and the principles that have guided you and to accept the time as a moment to consider theory.’”

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At the Yale University symposium entitled “Building the Future: the University as Architectural Patron” architects and art historians gathered to discuss the relationship between universities and architecture.

MIT professor, William J. Mitchell posited, “it is a fundamental responsibility of universities to pursue architecture and urbanism at the highest intellectual level and the highest level of cultural ambition.”

As for why university architecture often fails, Mitchell explains, “universities are large conservative bureaucracies in many respects, in which people who have to execute projects are often punished for mistakes and not rewarded for innovation. So there’s a cultural issue that has to be dealt with that often creates very risk-averse behavior.”

At Yale, Architects Consider Universities as Patrons Lawrence Biemiller Chronicle of Higher Education 1/28/08

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