PIcasso Print

Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Mass.,
February 5–June 5, 2011



Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos
(formerly on view as Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity)

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, NY.,
September 22, 2011–January 8, 2012

Featuring material from the Gallery's collection, this exhibition examines the diverse cultural identities that coexisted in the fascinating ancient city of Dura-Europos, in present-day Syria. The objects in the exhibition reflect the many subgroups within Dura's populationSyrians, Greeks, Roman soldiers, conscripted "barbarians" from Northern Europe, Jews, and Christiansand illuminate the deep cultural interactions commin in the ancient world.

Exhibition and publication organized by Lisa R. Brody, Associate Curator of Ancient Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Gail Hoffman, Adjunct Associate Professor, Fine Arts and Classical Studies, Boston College. Made possible by Boston College and the Patrons of the McMullen Museum of Art.

Image: Large Altar to Gods of Palmyra, A.D.
165–256. Limestone. Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos

PIcasso Print

Robert Adams: The Place We Live,
A Retrospective Selection of Photographs

Vancouver Art Gallery
September 25, 2010–January 16, 2011

Denver Art Museum
September 25, 2011–January 2, 2012

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
March 11–June 3, 2012

Yale University Art Gallery
August 3–October 28, 2012

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
January 22–May 13, 2013

Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany
2013

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
May 30–August 30, 2014

National Media Museum, United Kingdom
2014

The Yale University Art Gallery’s multivenue touring retrospective of the work of American photographer Robert Adams premieres in Vancouver in September 2010. Robert Adams: The Place We Live features over 300 prints spanning Adams’s 45-year career, and the exhibition will be accompanied by two major publications—a monograph, What Can We Believe Where?, and a three-volume retrospective, The Place We Live, which will contain over 400 images, including some previously unpublished, and a wealth of new scholarship on the influential photographer’s work.

Exhibition and publications organized by Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs, and Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, both of the Yale University Art Gallery. Made possible by Yale alumni and friends: Helen D. Buchanan; Allan K. Chasanoff; Lara Rubin Constable and The Reed Foundation; Nathaniel W. Gibbons; Betsy and Frank Karel; Saundra B. Lane; Melanie and Rick Mayer and the MFUNd; Mark McCain and Caro MacDonald/Eye and I; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan; Ms. Eliot Nolen and Mr. Timothy P. Bradley; Risher Randall, Sr.; the Shamos Family Foundation; Mary Jo and Ted P. Shen; Jane P. Watkins; the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund; and an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The acquisition of Robert Adams’s master prints was made possible through a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from the Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.
Image: Robert Adams, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968. Gelatin silver print. Purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from Trellis Fund, and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective

MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams, Mass.:
Now on view through 2033

In a major collaboration among three institutions, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective opens at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), in North Adams, Massachusetts, on November 16, 2008. The landmark installation comprises forty years of work by Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential contemporary artists of the last half century.

Conceived by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, in collaboration with the artist before his death in April 2007, the project has been undertaken by the Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The installation will remain on view for twenty-five years, occupying a 27,000-square-foot historic mill building in the heart of MASS MoCA’s campus. The three-story building, which is being fully restored for this exhibition by Bruner/Cott and Associates architects, will be outfitted with a complex sequence of new interior walls constructed to LeWitt’s own specifications.

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective will consist of one hundred works—covering nearly an acre of wall surface—that LeWitt created from 1968 to 2007. The works in the retrospective will be on loan from numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Gallery, to which LeWitt donated a number of wall drawings.

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Image: Model of the three-floor installation of Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA. Courtesy of Bruner/Cott and Associates architects