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May/June 2008
Figuring Women: The Female in Modern British Art
Center for British Art
(203) 432-2800
www.yale.edu/ycba
A display of 34 objects traces a progression of ideas
about the status of women in British culture through their portrayal by artists
from the Victorian period to the present day. Included are works by Ford Madox
Brown, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Henry Moore, and Lucian Freud, among others.
Through June 8

Van Gogh's Cypresses and The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Remy
University Art Gallery
(203) 432-0600
www.artgallery.yale.edu
Two of Vincent Van Gogh's most renowned paintings -- Cypresses (on loan from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art) and The Starry Night (Museum of Modern Art) -- are exhibited side by side for the
first time.
June 15 through September 7

Missionary Journeys: Stories of Adventure and Peril
from the Day Missions Collection
Divinity School Library
(203) 432-5290
www.library.yale.edu/div
Letters, journals, photographs, and published works
from the library's respected Day Missions Collection depict the unique
experiences of missionaries from the seventeenth through the early twentieth
centuries, who set out to spread the gospel around the world.
Through July

The Photographs of Jerome Liebling
University Art Gallery
(203) 432-0600
www.artgallery.yale.edu
Approximately 50 photographs by American artist
Jerome Liebling illustrate his varying photographic themes, including
social-documentary portraits and images of mannequins and corpses.
May 23 through September 7

Bat Boy: The Musical
Yale Dramat Commencement Musical
(203) 432-1210
www.dramat.org
Ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World
News, Bat Boy tells
the story of a half-boy, half-bat creature who attempts to live a "normal"
small-town life. At the University Theatre on May 23 at 8:00 p.m.; May 24 at
2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; and May 25 at 8:30 p.m.
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