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University Art Gallery Through December 31 “Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures” Before photography was invented, people often carried miniature portraits of their absent loved ones as keepsakes. This artwork, typically painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory and housed under glass in gold lockets, brooches, or bracelets, was usually commissioned to commemorate births, deaths, engagements, or marriages. Some artists specialized in the miniature, and well-known painters such as West, Copley, and Peale worked with the form. This exhibition of nearly 140 portrait miniatures, drawn from Yale’s collection as well as from bequests and loans, explores the strong ties between the miniature and the history of private life in America. An accompanying book by exhibition organizer Robin Jaffee Frank examines the miniature in detail and uncovers the stories of the people who sat for the portraits as well as the people who treasured them. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 1-6pm.
Center for British Art Through January 14, 2001 “Edward Lear and the Art of Travel” Many of Britain’s greatest artists of the 19th century journeyed to exotic locales in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India in search of artistic inspiration. One of the best of these artist-travelers was Edward Lear (1812-1888), who started his career as a natural history draughtsman and later gained fame as the author of “The Owl and the Pussycat” and other children’s verse. An exhibition of Lear’s work, including 114 drawings, 12 paintings, and 6 books (as well as more than 60 works by other artist-travelers), celebrates the gift to the BAC by the late Donald Gallup '34, ‘39PhD of some 400 drawings and paintings by Lear. Through January 7, 2001 “The School of London and Their Friends: The Elaine and Melvin Merians Collection” The BAC highlights English contemporary figurative painting with this display of more than 70 paintings and drawings, which have been drawn from the Melvin and Elaine Merians Collection of works by artists known as the School of London. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 12-5pm.
Peabody Museum Through December 2001 “The African Roots of the Amistad Rebellion: Masks of the Sacred Bush” A private collection of West African masks and other artifacts from Sierra Leone, complemented by rare photographs and field recordings, explores the cultural traditions behind the epochal events surrounding the Amistad rebellion. Most of the captives on board the Amistad were members of the Mende people from the West African nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia. In their culture, masks represent the power and the meanings of the lives of the Mende more deeply and more intimately than any other object, and they were crucial to preserving the meanings of home, safety, knowledge, and protection for the captives who revolted on the Amistad. The Mende masks are made of leather, cloth, palm fiber, yarn, or wood.
Yale Reperatory Theatre November 24 through December 16 “Heaven,” by George F. Walker; directed by Evan Yionoulis '82, ‘85MFA Canadian playwright George Walker presents this exploration of race, religion, and cultural identity in which Jimmy, a human rights lawyer and perpetual cynic, watches his life crumble around him, only to find that the afterlife may be worse than his “hell on earth.” Director Evan Yionoulis has been chair of the acting program at the School of Drama since the fall of 1998 and is a resident director at the Rep.
School of Music November 19, 8pm “Great Organ Music at Yale” Scottish-born organist Susan Landale appears at Woolsey Hall in a concert that includes the following: Symphony No. 3, by Louis Vierne; “Fantasie in A,” by Cesar Franck; “L'Orgue mystique No. 3” and selections from “Five Improvisations,” by Charles Tournemire; and La Nativite du Seigneur, by Olivier Messiaen.
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