From the Lotta Studio Facebook post:
Gorgeous rendition of last nights event at the Yale University Art Gallery in celebration of their NEW DaDa exhibit. If you did not make it to the Ball last night, you must stop by and submerse yourself in the authentic experience that lives in this showing of works. Thank you kindly to Travis Carbonella, for once again putting our labor of love on display, in a way that we could not have. Great big hug to Jessica Smolinski who took care of so many legistis so that we could solo focus on the creative. A high level of excitement and entertainment !
Special Delivery on Chapel Street. It looks like a storage container, it's painted gold, and it's ostentatiously displayed prominently in front of the Yale Art Gallery.
No, they haven't run out of room for amazing art inside of the Gallery at 1111 Chapel Street; they're just making room for more of it out front. In this case, the art on display inside the container is the juxtaposition of peoples' lives across the world.
Shared Studiosis the creation of Amar Bakshi, a perfect balance of artist and inventor who studies law here in New Haven at Yale and is also the founding director of The Legal Medium.
Amar comes from an interesting place, and he devised perhaps an even more interesting idea.
He makes wormholes. In this case, like the image in this article, one side (Blue) could be here, and Yellow (top) could be there. For some reason humankind is warped, like space, creating separate realities in places which technically exist in the folds of the same fabric of time in different parts around the world.
"I made a friend today," said one participant. "That was amazing."
Nhv.Org would have recommended that you make an appointment, but the project is booked for the dutation of the exhibit, which will run from now until March 1, 2015
How Amar intends to use his law degree to further his efforts in reshaping the world is something only a creative imagination could conceivably comprehend. Watch them install at 111 Chapel Street: If you'd like to know more about Shared Studios, you should also watch this too.
A photo of a painting of a photo Robert Cottingham - 1970 Oil on Canvas.
Photorealismis an art form where paintings are based on photographs. The painter attempts to capture the detail and imperfection of photography's idiosyncracies, such as lens glare or other reflection, in the work. Some of the iconic works of original photorealist painters from the late 1960's and early 1970's are on display until March 2014 at the Yale University Art Gallery. The YUAG itself is looking more and more like a museum, these days. Have you been there?
The Photorealism exhibit is on the Fourth Floor near the Red Grooms exhibit. The museum is free and open to the public whenever it's open.
For more details about that, see the gallery site.
piano music: "My Kind of Window" by ian "L.S. Aristotle" (circa 2002)
I had no idea that the museum extended beyond the High Street Arch to the corner of Old Campus. It was one of the more surreal moments I've ever experienced. Can you imagine flinging rubber bands at someone else down a spiral staircase when you're 12? Sitting in run-down classrooms in the corner of a building in 1993, then walking past but not entering for 20 years, and finally going in again to find that it's completely been restored into the most amazing place you've ever been?
When I was a child, at the age of 12, the Italian nuns who ran the Catholic School I attended on Whalley Avenue advised my parents to enroll me in a program down the street. It was called "The Ulysses S. Grant" Program, and it allowed middle school students from within the city limits, who fell into a lower income bracket, to participate where they'd be taught directly by Yale undergrads. Our home base was in the corner of Old Campus behind the Hawthorne statue.
A view of New Haven I've never seen before.
Anyway, some of those classes at that program (the ones that I attended) took place in a building in the far corner of Old Campus, the one we called Street Hall. I remember particularly playing in the spiral staircases. The ones where the doors exit under the arch. I would exit from those doors at 5:25pm in the middle of Autumn, skateboard in hand, getting down to the Daily to skate with the kids in town.
On Visiting
Hope on your first visit, it will be a memorable experience. I think that the best idea, if you're coming from anywhere else in Connecticut, is to arrive in New Haven around 10am. It's quiet and you can get something to eat before you go to the museum. You can try Willoughby's which is in the Arts and Architecture Building, on York Street. And you can also try the delicious home-made soups by Jen at Booktrader, or the awesomely original vegan muffins produced by Sara Neal (wife of Mr. Ray from Miracle Legion).
This rusty door on the roof of next door Skull N' Bones is equipped with a padlock.
About Hours
If the website says "Holiday Hours All Day" that means they're closed. Here is their actual schedule and this is their actual website: YUAG Official Site
Yale University Art Gallery Free and Open to the Public 1111 Chapel Street (at York Street) Tuesday–Friday 10:00 am–5:00 pm Thursday until 8:00 pm (Sept–June) New!Saturday-Sunday 11:00 am-5:00 pm
