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Summer 2002
University
Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
(203) 432-0600
www.yale.edu/artgallery
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Thursdays until 8 p.m);
Sunday, 1-6 p.m.
Nine
African American Quilters
Through
November 10
A
display of boldly colored and asymmetrically designed quilts, which
are on loan courtesy of a private collector in the New Haven area,
represents the work of nine quilters from rural Alabama. These women
worked primarily in Boykin, Alabama, an isolated area surrounded
on three sides by the Alabama River. The collector, as a VISTA volunteer
there in 1973, lived with a black family and attended local church
services. He became fascinated with the quilts being created by
area women, and he found parallels between the aesthetic characteristics
of the quilts and the gospel music he heard in their churches. The
quilts are on view in the Matrix Gallery of the American arts wing.
Center
for British Art
1080 Chapel
Street, (203) 432-2800
www.yale.edu/ycba
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm (Thursdays until 8pm); Sunday,
1-6pm.
Cooking
the Books: Ron King and Circle Press
Through September 9
For 35
years, Ron King has worked with more than 100 artists, writers,
and poets in his Circle Press, which he formed to "draw together
a circle of like-minded people" to make books. A retrospective of
the works of Circle Press, a complete set of which the BAC now holds,
celebrates the gift from Ron King and his wife of archival material
relating to Circle Press projects. This collection includes drawings,
plans, prototypes, texts, posters, plates, cutting and creasing
forms, and some wood and metal type, much of which is on view.
Taken
together, the books and the archive make the BAC's holdings the
most comprehensive collection of Circle Press works in the world,
and they offer a glimpse of one way that the creative process works
in book production. The display reveals how Ron King "cooks the
books" by carefully documenting the myriad details of every publication
-- from his first doodle in a spiral-bound notebook through various
permutations to its eventual emergence as a work of art.
Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
121 Wall Street
(203) 432-2977
www.library.yale.edu/beinecke
Hours:
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Exhibition area is closed Saturdays in August.
America
Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest
Through
July 17
A
display of approximately 100 books explores the variety and range
of book collecting by Paul Mellon '29. The exhibit includes 16th-century
accounts of early European exploration and examples of 19th-century
children's literature, along with works depicting American historical events, illustrated trade literature, and art and architectural
manuals.
Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival
Ellen
Battell Stoeckel Estate
Norfolk, Connecticut, (860) 542-3000
www.yale.edu/norfolk
From
July 5 through August 24, some of the world's most acclaimed musical
artists will descend upon this tiny town in the northwest corner
of Connecticut to appear in the 61st annual Norfolk Chamber Music
Festival. An arm of the Yale School of Music, the Festival coincides
with the School's summer session, which brings up-and-coming musicians
to Norfolk for opportunities to study and perform as Fellows of
the Summer School.
Highlights
of the 2002 season include a celebration of Richard Rodgers's Centennial on August 2, five appearances by the Tokyo String Quartet, and
a multimedia presentation illuminating the music of Ravel and Debussy
with prints and paintings. |