~Yale Arts Library Blog~

“University officials said there is ‘no merit’ to the allegations made in a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by former School of Art student Annabel Osberg ART ’09, who claims she was unfairly expelled from the Master of Fine Arts program in painting and printmaking.”

Yale: Former art student’s allegations of improper expulsion have ‘no merit’ Harrison Korn Yale Daily News July 23, 2008

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Via the Yale University Library ListServ: We are very happy to announce that the Yale University Library now has a dedicated series for our netcasts, or web-based broadcasts, on Yale’s iTunes (http://itunes.yale.edu). Netcasts are provided in MP3 format for easy use on computers or multimedia devices. This is the first new series to be launched on Yale’s iTunes U since the University partnered with Apple in September 2007. It brings together existing Library content and will provide a home for future netcasts of events and lectures, as well as those highlighting exhibitions, collections, resources, and services across the Library system. We also expect to make video netcasts available on iTunes U in the near future. The Cushing / Whitney Medical Library also has many free video netcasts available through the educational technology section of the iTunes store. You can find these by searching for the Cushing / Whitney Library as artist.

To access Library netcasts within Yale’s iTunes U, simply click on the’ Yale Library’ icon and browse content from Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. You can also quickly and easily subscribe to new content as it is made available using iTunes’s subscription feature.

Prodigygate Part III: In Which Osberg Actually Files a Lawsuit Mike Bechek, July 16, 2008, Ivy Gate

Ivy Gate has posted a link to a copy of Osberg’s lawsuit (in PDF) and asks “Any Yale MFAs still reading IvyGate these days? Send us the full version of this story.”

Quote from the lawsuit:

“On or about July 7, 2008, the defendant locked the plaintiff out of the studio she was renting from the defendant and thereafter locked her out of the residence she was renting from the defendant … As a result, the plaintiff has suffered ascertainable economic losses and emotional distress.”

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Robert A.M. Stern Wins National Building Museum Prize (and $45,000) Chronicle of Higher Education “Buildings and Grounds” blog, 7.15.08

“The National Building Museum has chosen Robert A.M. Stern, dean of Yale University’s architecture school, to receive this year’s Vincent Scully Prize. The prize recognizes ‘exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design.’”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog has an entry (July 11) on the Annabel Osberg controversy. It’s mainly just a re-cap, but the debate in the comment section underneath is worth a glance.

There are also some amusing comments at Ivygate too. So far they’re more about punctuation than art, however.

Edit: More commentary here.

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The San Antonio Current has run the best critique of the Shvarts affair I have yet to see.

Some artists and theorists would point out that defending the social value of transgressive art is begging the question. They would defend the autonomy of the artist regardless of social benefit. After all, to talk about the utility of a form of art is to place its importance beneath that of other social values — to say that art is a means to an end. This is precisely the kind of thinking that Shvarts critiques. Her uterus does not exist for the purpose of fulfilling anyone’s definition of social value, and neither does her art.

However, there’s another side to that coin, and to the extent that an artist places the creation of art above personal and social safety, the broader community is bound to question the validity of that work. At a certain point, transgressive artwork is not breaking down barriers but creating new ones with a single-minded focus on autonomy as the primary concern of the artist. Pro-choice activists are certainly correct in pointing out that Shvarts’s piece will create fresh problems for a movement that is trying to defend women’s rights while also ensuring that women are responsible in exercising those rights. But it sure would be nice if we could explore the meaning of the work before condemning it.

The morning after Ben Judson The San Antonio Current 7/2/08

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Yale art prodigy expelled
By News Channel 8’s Erin Cox, July 09, 2008

“An art prodigy is crying foul after being expelled from Yale University.

“News Channel 8 met Osberg on a park bench to talk to the painting prodigy about her expulsion from Yale University.

“She was expelled after a year of paintings and paying full tuition. ‘Cost a lot of money and a lot of heartache,’ Osberg said. ‘And, a lot of hopes that have been shattered.’”

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7.14 (just found this)
Watch the video on Ivygate.

Teen prodigy booted from Yale grad school Mary E. O’Leary New Haven Register 07/08/2008

Annabel Osberg “was the youngest ever accepted into the school, one of 22 studying painting and printmaking out of 600 applicants, all of whom were chosen based on personal interviews and critiques of their work by several people.

“But late this spring, Osberg, who was home-schooled until she began commuting to college at age 14, said she was dismissed from Yale by officials who, she says, told her she wasn’t mature enough to benefit from the program.”

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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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“[Abelardo Morell's] eye-bending work in optics and in the ancient technique of camera obscura, which he renders anew, are featured in an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibit, called ‘Behind the Seen,’ is tripled with ‘Everyday Monuments: The Photographs of Jerome Liebling’ and a kind of joyous inadvertent survey of photography from the mid 19th century to the present, ‘From Any Angle: Photographs from the Collection of Doris Bry.’”

A Triple-Header Celebrates Art Of Light
by Allan Appel | June 26, 2008 New Haven Independent

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“The architect’s most famous work, the Art and Architecture building at Yale, was…gutted over time. After his innovative asbestos ceiling was ripped out and replaced in the 1970s, Rudolph said that the building had ceased to exist for him.”

Rudolph’s perplexing legacy By Bill Hutchinson Herald Tribune 6/8/08

Found via: Mesothelioma News: Sarasota, Florida journalist looks back at the controversial career of architect and mesothelioma victim Paul Rudolph 6/27/08

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Giving Paul Rudolph His Due KIM MARTINEAU Hartford Courant June 29, 2008

“The building was plagued by other practical problems. Visitors tripped on its shallow steps and employees complained of the broiling heat from its incandescent bulbs. Architecture students taped paper over its picture windows to stop grids of shadow from forming on their drafting tables as the afternoon light streamed through Rudolph’s cargo net curtains.

“And while the corduroy walls of chiseled concrete may have been an aesthetic breakthrough they frequently ‘bit’ visitors if they weren’t mindful.

“‘It wasn’t a woolly, sympathetic building,’ says Helen Chillman, a longtime Yale librarian who worked there. ‘You couldn’t just snuggle down into it.’”

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Shvarts to present new piece at Tate Modern: Alumna’s project is “two seconds” of a two-hour event on the media, not controversial senior project, Zachary Abrahamson and Thomas Kaplan,
June 26, 2008 Yale Daily News

“Aliza Shvarts ‘08 is presenting her latest work in London on Saturday — no, not that one.

“The world has seen and heard little from Shvarts — whose original senior art project included videotapes of what she claimed were repeated induced miscarriages — since the Yale alumna quietly graduated in May. Now, she’s back: in an event sponsored by London’s Tate Modern museum.”

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Revivifying Yale’s Brutalist Pile By JAMES GARDNER, June 19, 2008 New York Sun

“When it reopens on November 9, the original [Art and Architecture] building will be officially renamed Paul Rudolph Hall, in honor of the charismatic figure who not only designed it, but ran the entire school as his personal fiefdom between 1958 and 1964.”

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Image: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art ArtDaily.org

“In a period of little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Mr. Mellon assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with astute purchases reflecting his own taste… Through his beneficent gift of his collection to Yale, the Center houses more than 50,000 drawings, watercolors, and printsthe largest and most representative collection of British art on paper outside the United Kingdom.”