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University Art Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 1-6pm. “John Singer Sargent: The Painter as Sculptor” In 1916-17 John Singer Sargent, best known for his paintings, made a series of 34 small bas reliefs and one freestanding sculpture in plaster as studies for the decorations on the dome of the rotunda at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Given to Yale in 1929 by the artist’s family, the studies have recently undergone conservation and are on display with an enlarged photograph of the MFA dome, showing how the maquettes were used in the final design. “The
Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes” Born in 1927, writer-artist Mu Xin has witnessed the full turmoil of 20th-century Chinese history, from the war with Japan to the founding of the People’s Republic, from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution to the death of Mao Zedong. Since 1982 he has lived in New York. The 33 landscape paintings on exhibition were created when Mu Xin was under house arrest in China in the late 1970s. The Prison Notes were written earlier, when he was in solitary confinement during the Cultural Revolution. Both reveal Mu Xin’s will to survive his imprisonment through the life of the mind.
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for British Art Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 12-5pm. “Wilde Americk: Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500–1850” An exhibit of some of the great landmarks in the mapping and exploration of the New World, features maps, atlases, and travel accounts. Highlights include a hand-drawn terrestrial globe probably created around 1522 by astronomer and mathematician Johannes Schoner, and the earliest surviving manuscript map showing the route of Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of 1577-1580.
Peabody
Museum Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday 12-5pm. “Peru: From Village to Empire” An exhibition on the origin of empire in Peru traces the rise of a complex society in that country, with particular emphasis on northern Peru. More than 50 objects and 60 maps, photographs, and drawings complement this examination of nine Peruvian cultures, which begins with the concept of the state prior to Spanish contact and concludes with the Inca of today. One section of the exhibit is devoted to Machu Picchu, previewing a comprehensive exhibition to open at the Peabody in 2002.
Yale
Repertory Theatre “Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)” by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker '92MFA The Yale Repertory Theatre christens the School of Drama’s New Theater at 1156 Chapel Street in Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall with this suspenseful psychodrama by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tennessee Williams. In the drama, an ex-showgirl named Myrtle moves to a farm on the Mississippi Delta with her new husband Lot, but soon finds herself caught in a bitter feud between Lot and his brother. As they argue, the swollen Mississippi River threatens to destroy their home—and lives—at any moment.
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