A&A Gallery
The A&A Gallery is located on the second floor of the Art and
Architecture Building, 180 York St. The gallery has exhibitions of works
by graduate students in the Schools of Art and Architecture; one room is
reserved for undergraduate courses and works by students majoring in art.
In the fall, each school sponsors exhibitions featuring works by
professional artists and architects. The gallery is open to the public
without charge Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. It is also open during the
weekends in winter, Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday,
3-6 p.m.
Collection of Musical Instruments
The Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave., contains over 800 instruments, the majority of which document the Western European music tradition. The collection is open to members of the Yale community free of charge ($1 donation for the general public is requested). Hours are 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. The museum maintains permanent exhibits and presents lectures, special exhibitions and other events. A series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring performances on restored instruments from the collection is presented annually. For information, call 432-0822. For information about the concert series, tickets and reservations, call 432-0825.
Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Peabody Museum of Natural History's newest exhibition, "The Wild and the Tame: Dogs in Native America," explores the role that dogs played in the art, mythology and daily lives of the Maya, the Aztec, the Inca, the Inuit and other native cultures. It features more than 50 objects, ranging from toy dogs created from bone and clay to canine figures made of ceramic, ivory, leather, basketry and beadwork. Also featured are natural history displays of skulls and other objects illustrating the evolution of dogs and wolves. Organized by Marion Schwartz, a research assistant in the anthropology department and the author of "A History of Dogs in America," it will be on view through Jan. 10, 1999.
The Peabody Museum also features a permanent collection of dinosaur fossils in its Great Hall of Dinosaurs and a hall devoted to mammalian evolution. Other exhibit themes include Primates; Meso-american and Andean Cultures; People of the Pacific; Ancient Egypt; Plains Indians and People of the Northwest Coast; Connecticut Indians; Fossil Plants; Minerals; Birds of Connecticut; Meteorites; and Wildlife Dioramas.
The Peabody Museum hosts special events and activities throughout the year for both children and adults. The Discovery Room, a hands-on mecca for children and others, is open daily. The Peabody's museum store features gift items from around the world. It is open during regular museum hours.
Located at 170 Whitney Ave., the Peabody Museum is open
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-
5 p.m. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Dec. 24, 25 and 31, Easter,
July 4 and Labor Day. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages
3-15 and senior citizens. Admission is free to museum members and members
of the Yale community with a valid I.D. For membership information, call
432-5099. For recorded directions and parking information, call 432-5050.
Yale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art is the most comprehensive collection of British paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors and rare books outside the United Kingdom. Designed by Louis I. Kahn and located at the corner of Chapel and High streets, the center and its original collection was donated to Yale by Paul Mellon '29.
On January 23, 1999, the museum will open its doors after a year-long renovation. The new arrangement of its galleries will include rooms with works by the major figures in British painting, including William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington. Magisterial rooms of 18th-century portraits, conversation pieces and landscapes by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and Johann Joseph Zoffany will also be featured.
In April, the Yale Center for British Art will unveil recent acquisitions by famed British artists Joseph Wright of Derby, Gillian Ayers, John Walker and Rachel Whiteread.
To coincide with its reopening and the reinstallation of its galleries, the center will present three exhibitions of works by three influential 20th-century artists: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Henry Moore. The three are known particularly for their post World War II representations of the human figure in art. The exhibits will demonstrate through paintings, etchings and sculpture each artist's different vision of the nature of the human form and human condition. The works that will be on display have been selected from collections throughout the world. The three exhibitions open Jan. 23 and run through March 21.
While the center's galleries will be closed until January, its department of prints and drawings and of rare books, as well as its reference library and photography archive, are currently open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The museum shop is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For further information, call 432-2800 or 432-2850.
Yale University Art Gallery
Works by such famous artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet and Munch, as well as works created by British artists of African descent and by Chinese artists, will be featured in special exhibitions opening during the fall semester at the Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St.
"The Pleasures of Paris: Prints by Toulouse-Lautrec," opening Sept. 1, includes many of Lautrec's best-known posters and color lithographs. A related exhibition, "Fin-de-Siècle Symbolist Prints from Manet to Munch," will open later in September. The exhibits were organized by Richard S. Field, curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the gallery.
Opening on Oct. 13 is "The Unmapped Body: Three Black British Artists," which features the work of London-based artists Sonia Boyce, Sutapa Biswas and Keith Piper. Organized by Daphne Deeds, curator of exhibitions and programs, the exhibit highlights the far-reaching cultural changes in Britain and the need to represent the "black" body within a visual catalogue of British art. It is cosponsored by the Yale Center for British art.
"Spirit and Ritual in Asian Art," which opens on Sept. 22, is the theme of a new installation of Chinese paintings, ritual bronze vessels, jades, ceramics and pottery figurines made for burial in tombs. A highlight is a recently acquired painted earthenware mortuary lamp portraying Xiwangmu, the most prominent figure in Han dynasty mythology.
Teaching exhibits in the newly refurbished rooms on the second floor include "The Arts of Medieval Islam," for a course with the same name taught by Maria Georgopolou; "Twentieth Century Photography," which includes works selected by Jonathan Weinberg for his course on American photography; and "The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition," organized by Robert Farris Thompson for his course "From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition."
The Yale University Art Gallery also features permanent collections ranging from ancient Egyptian art to early Italian paintings to modernist works. The Egyptian gallery on the ground floor features many new items -- some being displayed for the first time -- and includes sculpture, pottery, paintings, stone vessels, coffin panels and jewelry ranging from 4000 B.C. to 395 A.D. Such famous artists as Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Copley, Eakins, Homer and Hopper are among those whose works are also represented in the gallery's permanent collections.
The public is welcome at museum programs, including gallery talks, films, symposia, performances, lectures and "Family Days." Many of these events are free. The museum shop offers a wide variety of gift items from the around the world, as well as books, stationery and posters.
The Yale University Art Gallery and its sculpture garden are open to
the public without charge Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-6
p.m. The gallery is closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Dec. 25, 25 and 31,
Jan. 1 and July 4. A wheelchair-accessible entrance is at 201 York St.,
with a reserved parking space nearby. For more information about disabled
access, call 432-0606. For taped general and program information, call
432-0600.
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