Yale Center for British Art April events

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YCBA APRIL E-NEWS
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Exhibitions

Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992–2007
Closing April 1

The documentary film, Imagine… A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin will be screened in the Lecture Hall at 12:30 pm on Sunday, April 1.
Added tours!
Exhibition tours of Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007 will be held on Saturday, March 31 at 12 noon and 1 pm and Sunday April 1 at 2 pm and 3 pm.

Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art
April 18–July 29, 2007
This spring the Yale Center for British Art celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and commemorates the centennial of the birth of its founder, Paul Mellon (1907–1999; Yale College 1929), with the special exhibition, Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art.

Student Exhibition:
Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science
March 30–June 11, 2007
The first annual Art in Focus student guide exhibition, Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science focuses on a mezzotint after Joseph Wright of Derby’s A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump. This exhibition explores the ways in which science functioned as part of the social fabric of elite culture in eighteenth-century Britain.
Exhibition tours

Lectures

April 3-5, 9-11, 5:30 pm
Paul Mellon Lectures
For An Excellent Purpose: Museums and Their Publics in Britain from 1850–1914
Giles Waterfield, independent curator and writer, Director of Royal Collection Studies organized by the Attingham Trust, Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a former trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and former Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Tuesday and Wednesday, April 3–4
The Rise of the Regional Museum in Victorian Britain, Parts I and II

Thursday, April 5
Collecting for the People

Monday, April 9
Beyond the Crystal Palace: Museum Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Tuesday, April 10
Explaining the Museum

Wednesday, April 11
Galleries of British Art

Thursday, April 12
Andrew Carnduff­ Ritchie Lecture 5:30 pm
The Museum as Muse
Kathy Halbreich, former director of the Walker Art Center
Robert J. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel Street)

Tuesday, April 17
Opening Lecture 5:30 pm
Paul Mellon: The Galloping Anglophile
Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and former director of the Yale Center for British Art
This lecture will be presented at the Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil Lecture Hall.

Friday, April 27
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture 5:30 pm
Observation in the Enlightenment
Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Honorary Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin. Lecture Hall

Art in Context Lunchtime Lectures

Tuesday, April 3, 12:30 pm
Inigo Jones and the Stuart Court Masque
Joseph Cermatori, student in the Yale School of Drama

Tuesday, April 10, 12:30 pm
Cowardly Docents: Selected Songs by Noel Coward,
the Quintessential Englishman
Yale Center for British Art Docents

Tuesday, April 24, 12:30 pm
The Mapmaker’s Art: Treasures from Paul Mellon’s Collection
Elisabeth Fairman, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Yale Center for British Art

Concerts
Wednesday, April 18, 12:30 pm
Graduate students from Yale School of Music perform chamber music in the Library Court.

Tuesday, April 24, 5.30 pm
Art and Music in Contemporary Britain
Composer Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, and Michael Hatt, Head of Research, Yale Center for British Art

Family Programs

Sunday, April 29
Family Funday 2–3 pm
ArTwirled.
After viewing paintings of children with toys, visitors will construct their own pirouette tops with arms that lift as they spin. Most appropriate for ages 4–9. Adult assistance may be needed for younger children. Free. No registration required. Meet in the Entrance Court.

Films

All films are screened in the Center’s Lecture Hall (seating is limited). Admission is free and open to the public

Saturday, April 7, 2 pm
The Skull (1965), directed by Freddie Francis (not rated; 90 minutes). Dr. Maitland, a collector of esoterica, buys an unusual skull that a­ffects him in a grave manner. Elisabeth Lutyens, composer.

Saturday, April 14, 1:30 pm
O Lucky Man! (1973), directed by Lindsay Anderson (rated R; 183 minutes). A sprawling and surrealist musical about the adventures of a young coff­ee salesman in Europe. Music by Alan Price.

Tours

Introductory Tours
11 am Saturdays, April 7, 14, and 28

Architectural Tour
Saturday, April 21 at 11 am

Student Guide Tours
Most Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm. Please visit our website for a complete schedule.