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  • Change of scenery

    While the Center for British Art is closed for a year for building conservation, more than 50 paintings from its collection—like J. M. W.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 29 2023 08:00am

  • Closing time

    If you're a fan of the Yale Center for British Art, this might be a good time for a visit. The museum will be closing on February 27 for a year-long... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2023 08:00am

  • Floor show

    Richard Long’s Quantock Wood Circle, on display at the Center for British Art through February 19, consists of 285 pine branches... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 4 2022 08:00am

  • Colorful canvas

    The Center for British Art is now open to the public again on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On display through July 24: a major exhibition of works... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2022 08:00am

  • Museum time

    Did we mention that the art museums are now open to visitors on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? Well, we’re mentioning it again. Go check out... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2021 08:08am

  • Art, in person

    What a pleasure to wander the galleries of the Center for British Art again! The museum is now open to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 8 2021 08:07am

  • Art is back!

    It’s far from back to normal, but the Art Gallery (shown here) and the Center for British Art both reopened to visitors last Friday. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 2 2020 08:01am

  • Lunch in the time of coronavirus

    There is limited service inside restaurants in Connecticut as of last week, but dining al fresco at places like Harvest Wine Bar is still a popular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2020 01:26pm

  • Looking back

    Opening today at the Center for British Art: Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement looks at a group... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 13 2020 10:50am

  • Collect ’em all!

    Available at the Center for British Art's museum shop: a full set of the wives of Henry the Eighth. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2020 12:37pm

  • A woman in full

    The earliest full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, dating from around 1567, is on loan to the Center for British Art until the fall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 2 2020 08:42am

  • True colors

    Center for British Art architect Louis Kahn once said of the building, "On a gray day it will look like a moth, on a sunny day like a butterfly."... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2019 01:25pm

  • Look out below

    It’s a perfect day for lunch al fresco next door to the Center for British Art. The subterranean restaurant space is now home to Harvest Wine... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2018 02:08pm

  • Still not tired

    Samuel Johnson said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Some of us feel the same way about the Yale Center for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 6 2018 08:42am

  • Modern Britain

    The Center for British Art recently opened its reinstalled second-floor permanent exhibition, which covers the period from 1860 to the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 30 2018 08:33am

  • Clay day

    Local potters Stephen Rodriguez and Tina Menchetti worked in front of a crowd yesterday at the entrance to the Center for British Art. The... Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | September 27 2017 08:57am

  • Let there be light

    There is so much to enjoy in the exhibition Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, which opens tomorrow at the Center for British... Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | September 13 2017 09:01am

  • Cheaper by the dozen

    The lobby of the Center for British Art is awash in porcelain vases in anticipation of an upcoming exhibition on British pottery. There are 80 of the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 1 2017 08:57am

  • Atelier

    Artists sketched pieces from the Center for British Art collection yesterday in a free program offered by the center’s education department.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 22 2017 08:54am