Arts & Culture

Calendar

As this issue went to press, several on-campus venues were closed due
to a winter surge in COVID cases. Check websites for information.  

Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction   
Center for British Art
(877) BRIT-ART
https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/bridget-riley-perceptual-abstraction

An exhibition of over 50 works by Bridget Riley (b. 1931) traces the English artist’s oeuvre from the 1960s to the present. In-person (check website) and online.
March 3 through July 24

Yale Philharmonia
Woolsey Hall
(203) 432-4158
https://music-tickets.yale.edu/22116/22119

Guest conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Yale Philharmonia in a program that includes Jimmy Lopez’s Perú Negro; Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, with soloist Yi-Chen Feng ’21MusM, ’22MusAD; and Brahms’s Third Symphony. Stream online at https://music.yale.edu/live.
April 8, 7:30 pm

Choir Boy
Yale Repertory Theatre
(203) 432-1234
https://yalerep.org/productions/choir-boy/

A life-affirming coming-of-age story that brims with a cappella singing, Choir Boy was written by Academy Award–winning Tarell Alvin McCraney ’07MFA, playwright-in-residence of the Yale Rep.
March 31 through April 23

Beinecke Windows
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/beineckewindows

A display in the Beinecke’s exterior-facing windows celebrates the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale, beginning with the opening lines of Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America be America Again,” and continuing with photographs of prominent African American writers, artists, and activists. In-person (outside) and online.  
Ongoing

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