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New on View: Eric Fischl's The Black Sea

New on View: Eric Fischl's The Black Sea

New on view in the contemporary galleries is Eric Fischl's monumental painting The Black Sea, on loan from Ann and Argyris Vassiliou, Class of 1991.
American Prospects: Nineteenth-Century City Views by William James Bennett

American Prospects: Nineteenth-Century City Views by William James Bennett

The English painter and engraver William James Bennett produced a series of eighteen aquatint views of American cities, ranging from Boston in the North to Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico. One of only two known complete sets of...
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Bringing together objects as diverse as paintings, marble and bronze sculpture, cameos, drawings, books, and prints, Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe tells the stories of European perceptions of Africa in the Renaissance, of the Africans who came to...
Roman Sculptures on Loan from Italy

Roman Sculptures on Loan from Italy

Three very fine works of Roman sculpture, together with an exceptional Attic red-figure stamnos, are now on extended loan from the Republic of Italy.
New Acquisition: Black-figure skyphos: symposium of Hermes and Herakles

New Acquisition: Black-figure skyphos: symposium of Hermes and Herakles

The Art Museum recently added to its fine collection of ancient Greek pottery an Attic skyphos, a type of clay wine cup with a deep bowl, two handles, and a disk foot. The skyphos is decorated in the black-figure technique...
New Acquisition: La Psyché (My Studio)

New Acquisition: La Psyché (My Studio)

Alfred Stevens's La Psyché recently entered the Museum’s collection. Using the studio as its setting, the painting exemplifies the style that made Stevens famous.
In Depth: 1913, The Year of Modernism

In Depth: 1913, The Year of Modernism

This exhibition celebrates the centennial of this pivotal year in art and liternature as well as its aftermath, highlighting key aspects of modernist movements--from Expressionism to Futurism, from visual poetry to Dadaist provocations.
Campus Collections: The Art around Us

Campus Collections: The Art around Us

Outside the walls of the museum building, the Museum oversees a collection of more than 700 works of art in different media that reflect the University’s rich history and aspirations. Many of these exceptional works need to be sought out—on...
Art Matters: Why Art?

Art Matters: Why Art?

Why art? Why does art make a difference in our lives? Mary Miller, Class of 1975 and Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, offers a thoughtful meditation on how she came to love and appreciate the...
Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

The first installation of loans from the Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program is currently on view. We recently sat down with Kelly Baum, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to discuss how the Museum became involved with the Rauschenberg Foundation's...