Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London and SYMPOSIUM Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London

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23–28 April 2019 View this email in your browser MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London Thursday, April 25, 5:30 pm This concert will feature the renowned cellist and master kora player Tunde Jegede, who specializes in the West African classical music tradition. Jegede will perform with Robin Jeffrey, a versatile performer on instruments of the lute and guitar families; Corey Shotwell, a celebrated vocalist; and Nathaniel Mander, an exciting young harpsichordist. This program and the following symposium, which are free and open to all, are hosted by the Yale Center for British Art and co-organized with Historic Royal Palaces, Handel & Hendrix in London, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with generous support from Laura and James Duncan, Yale BA 1975. LEARN MORE SYMPOSIUM Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London Friday, April 26, 9 am to 5 pm Join us for this daylong symposium, which follows the musical performance Black Music in Eighteenth-Century London at the Center on Thursday, April 25. The concert and symposium, which include prominent musical experts, have arisen from research carried out for the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, which was held at the Yale Center for British Art between February and April of 2017, and then at Kensington Palace in London. The ambition of this program is to explore the complex, long-standing relationship between African and Western musical traditions, especially within London metropolitan society, and to recognize the brilliance of black composers and performers who, against great odds, contributed to the musical culture of the age. LEARN MORE ART IN CONTEXT Land and Sea Tuesday April 23, 12:30 pm Christy Anderson, Associate Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, History of Art, University of Toronto, will deliver a thirty-minute gallery talk. TOURS (Meet in the Entrance Court) EXHIBITION TOUR William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum Thursday April 25, 11 am Join a curator-led tour of the special exhibition William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum. EXHIBITION TOUR Art in Focus: Blue Thursday April 25, 11 am   Join a docent-led tour of the special exhibition Art in Focus: Blue. INTRODUCTORY TOUR Friday April 26, 2 pm   Join a docent-led tour of the Center's collections, including a visit to the Founder’s Room. ARCHITECTURE TOUR   Saturday April 27, 11 am Join a docent-led tour of the Center’s architecture, which includes a look at the Founder’s Room. ON VIEW William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum   Through May 20, 2019   Three hundred years ago, Dr. William Hunter assembled a collection of art and artifacts to span the history of the world as it was then known. It was to serve as a source of inspiration and knowledge for all, and became the foundation of The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. This exhibition features over 370 objects from Hunter’s original collections, many of which have traveled from Scotland for the first time since they were donated to the University of Glasgow. Hunter was one of the first and foremost anatomists of the Enlightenment. As a trusted royal physician who delivered more than a dozen babies to the then Queen Caroline, his research ushered in the age of medical obstetrics. He was also the first professor of anatomy for the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Instruction and Delight: Children’s Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection   Through May 23, 2019   By the turn of the eighteenth century in Britain, parents and teachers had begun to embrace a suggestion from the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) that “Learning might be made a Play and Recreation to Children.” The material culture of this period, and the subsequent generation, reveals a significant shift in thinking, as adults found fresh value in childhood and in play for its own sake, as well as for educational purposes. British publishers leapt at the chance to design books and games for both instruction and delight. This small display celebrates the recent gift of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century children’s games and books to the Center by Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957. Art in Focus: Blue   Through August 11, 2019   This student-curated exhibition explores the use of the color blue in British art as a manifestation of global commerce, a signal of military power, and a symbol of imperialism acknowledged around the world. Following blue across centuries, student curators developed a visual and material history of British exploration, trade, and colonialism through examples from the Center’s collections, much of it rarely seen. REFERENCE LIBRARY The Reference Library is open Tuesday through Sunday (until 8 pm on Wednesdays) during the academic year.  SEARCH ONLINE Search the Center's online collection. MUSEUM SHOP   The Center’s Museum Shop is open Monday through Saturday, 10 am–5 pm, and Sunday, noon–5 pm. Image credits (top to bottom): Tunde Jegede, photo by Yoshitaka Kono; (Left) Attributed to Michael Vandergucht, [Stringed Instruments from South Asia, Jamaica, and West Africa], ca. 1707, engraving, plate 3 in the book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers, and Jamaica [. . .], by Sir Hans Sloane, 1707–25, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; (Right) Francesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Gainsborough, Ignatius Sancho frontispiece portrait from vol. 1 of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African [. . .], 1783, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; J. M. W. Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Lady Taking Tea, 1735, oil on canvas, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow; William Henry Hunt, Still Life with a Ginger Jar, ca. 1825, watercolor and graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Visitors in the Long Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, photograph © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO; Library Court, Yale Center for British Art, photograph © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO; Allan Ramsay, William Hunter, ca. 1764–65, oil on canvas, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow; Wallis’s Elegant and Instructive Game Exhibiting the Wonders of Art, in Each Quarter of the World, London: E. Wallis, ca. 1820, hand-colored engraving, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957; Edward Lear, Plains of Bengal, from above Siligoree, 1874, watercolor, pen and brown ink, and gouache on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968; Reference Library, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole; Philippe Mercier, The Sense of Sight, 1744 to 1747, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Classic Batchel in red leather, courtesy of the Cambridge Satchel Company Contact: +1 203 432 2800 Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06520 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences