Upcoming Events

March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

The Radical Print: Art and Politics in late-eighteenth century Britain

This lecture will introduce the major themes of Esther’s new book, published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

March 27, 2025 - 6:30pm to March 28, 2025 - 5:30pm

Circulation is more than a synonym for the zones where people or things move; it locates a set of tensions between movement and arrest, passage and capture, flow and containment.

March 28, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Professor Jaś Elsner will give a talk titled, “Cover and Curtain in European Medieval Art.”

April 2, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Prof. Nancy Um will give a talk titled, “A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Networks of Money, People, Things, and Power in the Inventory of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695.”

April 5, 2025 - 10:30am to 6:00pm

Keynote Address: Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art.

April 5, 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Dr. Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, will present the keynote address titled, “The Underground Railroad, Quilts, and the Power of Desire.”

April 9, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

The Yale Department of the History of Art and Program in Early Modern Studies invite you to celebrate a new book by Morgan Ng:
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press)

April 15, 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:00pm

Caterina Franciosi will argue that Staffa, Fingal’s Cave encapsulates a central paradox of the Anthropocene.

May 1, 2025 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Experience the sublime through the art of J. M. W. Turner and the music composed during the artist’s lifetime.