Tag Archives: Yale Center for British Art

This Week in New Haven (December 16 – 22)

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Christmas is coming, but Hanukkah comes first as preparations, diversions and celebrations deck the week ahead.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (December 2 – 8)

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Parties, arts and a party for the arts set the holiday season alight.  (more…)

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Critical Condition

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Writer, painter, educator, philosopher, keen observer of clouds and leaves and rocks. The 19th-century Englishman John Ruskin was many things, but he’s most remembered for his work as an art critic, for which Yale art history professor Tim Barringer has called him “perhaps the most eloquent of all writers on art in the English language.” […]

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Photo Credit

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Whose photo is it, anyway? That’s the central question asked by Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (July 22 – 28)

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Talking and listening, working and lounging, drinking and drink-making: all good ways to find and build community in the week ahead.  (more…)

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Step by Step

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A Fitstyle walking tour with Shana Schneider is as much about the walking as it is about the tour.  (more…)

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Master Strokes

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Step into the exhibition Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies, on view at the Yale Center for British Art through August 11, and you’ll know you’re in the presence of a master. (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (April 1-7)

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As we regain access to a favorite overlook, don’t overlook important film screenings, beers bubbling in miniature mugs and a locally favored team vying for a national championship.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (February 18 – 24)

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It’s a many-splendored thing, to say the least.  (more…)

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New to the Game

The Wonders of the World, London_ William Spooner, with instruction booklet, ca. 1843, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957_2000

Clue, Monopoly, Mousetrap, Sorry!. Whatever you played as a kid, board games feel intrinsic to childhood. But a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art reminds us this wasn’t always the case.  (more…)

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