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FINAL WEEK The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Through Sunday, December 15 Only a few days remain to visit the exhibition that the New York Times hailed as a show not to be missed! This exhibition of works by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is the second in the series of three successive exhibitions curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als. Selected by Als in collaboration with Yiadom-Boakye and the Center, this display highlights recent paintings and prints by the London-based artist, focusing on her portrait-like studies of characters drawn from the world of fiction, found images, and imagination. LEARN MORE Peterloo and Protest Through Sunday, December 15 Explore the western linage of peaceful protests in this special exhibition, which also closes this week. Provoked by an industrial depression and high food prices in the early nineteenth century, demonstrators demanded parliamentary reform using a method that lives on. In what became known as the Peterloo Massacre, an armed and mounted militia attacked a large but peaceful demonstration for political reform in St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, leaving over a dozen dead and hundreds injured. This exhibition commemorates this defining event in British political history. Using objects drawn from the Center’s collections and others, the display also examines later public protests and demonstrations in Britain and elsewhere until 1969. LEARN MORE SEASONAL PROGRAMS Late-Night Thursdays Thursdays December 12 and 19, 10 am–8 pm Come celebrate the holiday season in festive downtown New Haven! The Center and Museum Shop are open until 8 pm on Thursdays, December 12 and 19. Experience dance accompanied by live music, revisit a classic film in the Center’s elegant Lecture Hall, and enjoy seasonal refreshments while shopping for the perfect gift. DANCE PERFORMANCES Enduring Silence and All That’s in Between Thursday December 12, 6 pm Inspired by the Indian classical dance form called kathak, the renowned New York City-based dancer and choreographer Parul Shah performs Enduring Silence, an exquisitely stunning solo piece that explores tradition and modernity and considers the resilience of women from different cultures. All That’s in Between is a lively group dance that looks at the human condition and our interconnectedness with one another. Both dance pieces are accompanied by live music. The performance is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture. CONCERT New Haven Public School Students Tuesday December 10, 11:30 am Join New Haven public school students for a series of informal concerts featuring string ensembles, and choral and percussion groups, as they perform holiday music in the Center’s Entrance Court. CONCERT Héloïse Carlean-Jones Friday December 13, 1 pm The prize-winning harpist Héloïse Carlean-Jones pushes the boundaries of her instrument in this stirring yet intimate concert of Benjamin Britten’s “Suite for Harp” (1969) and “Variations on Themes from Bellini’s Norma” (1838) by Elias Parish-Alvars. SEASONAL PROMOTION Yale Shopping Week Through December 15 Celebrate Yale Shopping Week by supporting the university’s art museums this holiday season. Yale faculty, staff, and students receive 20 percent off of entire purchases at the Center’s Museum Shop and the Art Gallery’s Museum Store. Save big between December 9 and 15, 2019. TOURS (Meet in the Entrance Court) INTRODUCTORY TOURS   Friday December 13, 2 pm Saturday December 14, 11 am   Join a docent-led tour of the Center’s collections. Saturday's tour includes a look at the Founder’s Room. EXHIBITION TOUR The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye   Sunday December 15, 1 pm   Join a docent-led tour of the special exhibition. ON VIEW Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain   Through December 29, 2019   This exhibition presents a range of approaches to contemporary filmmaking, from the poetic to the conceptual. Featuring Theo Eshetu (b. 1958), Isaac Julien (b. 1960), Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973), Charlotte Prodger (b. 1974), Zina Saro-Wiwa (b. 1976), Zineb Sedira (b. 1963), John Smith (b. 1952), and Alia Syed (b. 1964), Migrating Worlds offers insights into British life and culture, and questions the definitions of identity and belonging.

REFERENCE LIBRARY The Reference Library is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm, and 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): Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Greenhouse Fantasies, 2014, oil on canvas, Hudgins Family Collection, © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Corvi-Mora, London; Lewis Morley, Tariq Ali and Vanessa Redgrave, Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration, London, 1968, gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy; Attributed to Henry Kingsbury, A Milliner's Shop, 1787, hand-colored etching on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Parul Shah, Enduring Silence, photo by Kasia Idzkowska; New Haven Public School students performing in the Entrance Court, photograph courtesy of Education; Héloïse Carlean-Jones, photo by Janice Carissa; Yale Shopping Week, Yale faculty, staff, and students receive 20 percent off entire purchases December 9–15, 2019; Visitors in the Library Court, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Stephanie Anestis; Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 1 pm, Mason’s Yard, 2014, oil on canvas, Private Collection, © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Corvi-Mora, London; Isaac Julien, The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats), 2007, production photo, courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice; 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