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November 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.

Through December 29
“Justice on Trial: Ben Shahn’s Case for Sacco and Vanzetti”

For the past 75 years, the Sacco and Vanzetti trial has inspired an outpouring of poetry, music, and visual art. Realist painter Ben Shahn’s Sacco and Vanzetti series has been recognized by scholars as the most significant and sustained treatment of the case in fine art. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, the centerpiece of the Art Gallery’s exhibition, reflects Shahn’s view that the trial and execution of the two men was a modern
crucifixion.

Through December 1
“Wood Turning in North America Since 1930” and “Yale Collects Wood: Gifts from the Collection of John and Robyn Horn”

A display of more than 150 wood pieces, from functional bowls to abstract sculptures, shows how wood turning has evolved from a technical trade to a popular mode of creating art.

Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, (203) 432-2800
www.yale.edu/ycba

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-6pm.

Through December 29
“The Romantic Landscape Print: The Chiaroscuro of Nature”

Printmaking flourished in Britain during the late-18th and early-19th centuries, a time that was also marked by the artist’s passionate aesthetic and spiritual engagement with the natural world. An exhibition of 95 prints features works by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, and William Blake, as well as “modern Romantics” Richard Long, Peter Doig, and others.

Yale Repertory Theatre
Chapel and York streets, (203) 432-1234
www.yalerep.org

Through November 16
“Breath, Boom,” by Kia Corthron; directed by Michael John Garces

Sixteen-year-old Prix, a girl gang leader, is already hardened by life. To break a cycle that has taken her from the streets to jail and back again, Prix finds hope in the fireworks she designs—short bursts of beauty over which she has control.

Yale School of Music
435 College Street, (203) 432-4158
http://music.yale.edu

November 18, 8 p.m.
“Horowitz Piano Series”

Boris Berman, pianist, performs Schubert: Sonata in A Major, op. posth.; Webern: Variations, op. 27; and works by Chopin. Tickets are $10 and $8; $5 for students.

Princeton Weekend

November 15, 8 p.m.
Yale-Princeton Glee Clubs

The annual concert features the glee clubs of Yale and Princeton, in Battell Chapel. Call (203) 432-4136 for tickets.

November 16, 8 p.m.
Yale Symphony Orchestra

The YSO takes the stage in Woolsey Hall with guest conductor Stephen Heyde and Kimberly DeQuattro '03, soprano. The program includes Brahms, Tragic Overture; Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915; and the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. Tickets are $8; $5 with Yale ID. Call (203) 432-4140.

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