 | Reproductions of this black glazed mug from the fifth century B.C. will be among the items based on the Yale Art Gallery's collections that will be on sale in its new museum shop. |
The Yale University Art Gallery will open a second museum store at 46 High St. on Saturday, Nov. 1.
The new store, just around the corner from the entrance to the Yale Center for British Art, will feature contemporary art and design, with particular attention to original works by local and international artists.
"We are really enthusiastic about supporting living artists and introducing fresh and unusual collections in this wonderful new space," says Rachael Montejo, the recently appointed store manager. She notes that the public will have the opportunity to meet the artists at receptions and trunk shows at the store.
On the opening Saturday, visitors can enjoy refreshments, meet Montejo and the Yale and New Haven officials who made the new retail venture possible, and check out the dozens of one-of-a-kind art objects -- such as tote bags made from recycled Yale Art Gallery posters and lamps inspired by Louis I. Kahn's signature tetrahedral ceiling. For the opening, gift-wrapping is free.
The Yale Art Gallery's original museum store was moved to a smaller space at the new entrance in the Swartwout building when the Kahn building closed for restoration and renovation. The store will continue to carry art-related jewelry, games and toys, postcards, calendars, stationery and books. Montejo has also announced plans to create a line of reproductions of objects in the collection to be sold in this store. The first, which will be available in the near future, is of a classical Greek black-glazed mug from the fifth century B.C. This mug is part of the collection of 900 vessels and vases given to Yale by Rebecca Darlington Stoddard in 1913.
"Mrs. Stoddard lived in New Haven and it was important to her that these ancient artifacts could be available to the local residents as well as the University," said Susan B. Matheson, the Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art. "Now we can not only visit them in our museum, but we can drink our morning coffee from mugs that were designed in Apulia 25 centuries ago."
The new museum store on High Street is open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m. The Swartwout store is open during museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m.
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