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28-626: The Block Museum has strong partnerships with museums worldwide including with the Yale University Art Gallery , Princeton University Press , The Nasher Art Museum at Duke University, the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . The Block often collaborates with these museums on exhibitions that travel across the country and the world. Charlotte Moorman was a musician and performance artist and

56-595: A Woolco discount store in a shopping center", and that the interior looked like an "underground parking garage". In 1998, the gallery began a major renovation and expansion. A renovation of the 1953 building was completed in December 2006 by Polshek Partnership Architects , who returned many spaces to Kahn's original vision. The project was completed on December 12, 2012, at a cost of $ 135 million, under then-director Jock Reynolds . The expanded space totals 69,975 sq ft (6,500.9 m ). In December 2011,

84-550: A champion of experimental art, whose avant-garde festivals in New York City brought new art forms to a broad public. Recognition of Moorman in art history has been limited mostly to her collaborations with other artists, including composer John Cage and pioneering multimedia artist Nam June Paik , and to her 1967 performance of Paik's "Opera Sextronique," for which she became known as the "topless cellist" after being arrested on indecency charges. A Feast of Astonishments used

112-418: A design by Chicago architectural firm Lohan Associates . Designed by acclaimed Chicago architect Dirk Lohan (the grandson of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), and substantially funded by a private donation from businessman, lawyer, and philanthropist Paul Leffmann, the glass, steel and limestone structure tripled the size of the original facility. The 2000 expansion tripled the museum's gallery size. The Block Museum

140-413: A thick mass of concrete imprinted with tetrahedral openings." The triangular ceiling of the gallery was designed by Tyng, who was fascinated by geometry and octet-truss construction. Kahn's addition "was...a box...of glass, steel, concrete, and tiny beige bricks", and had none of the features of the earlier galleries. One critic said that Kahn's building "could have scarcely have been distinguished from

168-613: Is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut . It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University . Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian Renaissance painting , African sculpture , and modern art . It is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. The gallery was founded in 1832 when patriot artist John Trumbull donated over 100 paintings of

196-402: Is now home to three In 2015, the museum launched a public lobby lounge known as The Block Spot, equipped with Wi-Fi, seating, study spaces and meeting spots. Block Spot was created with James Geier, president and co-founder of Chicago's award-winning 555 International, and with input from undergraduates in industrial designer and adjunct lecturer John Hartman's industrial design projects class at

224-624: The American Revolution to Yale College and designed the original picture gallery. This building on the university's Old Campus was razed in 1901. Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight , was opened as the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1866, and included exhibition galleries on the second floor. The exterior was in a neo-Gothic style, with an appearance influenced by 13th-century Venetian palaces. These spaces are

252-475: The Battle of Bunker Hill , Death of Montgomery before Quebec , Surrender of Lord Cornwallis , Declaration of Independence , etc. Trumbull gave the paintings to Yale in consideration of an annuity of $ 1,000 and subject to the condition that he and his wife should be forever buried beneath the pictures. The encyclopedic collections of the gallery number more than 300,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to

280-768: The New National Gallery in West Berlin and the Chicago IBM office building . His own works include McDonald's former Corporate Headquarters campus in Oak Brook, the John G. Shedd Oceanarium and the Soldier Field stadium expansion and renovation. Dirk Lohan is known as the continuator of the work of his grandfather and an expert on its conservation. He is also one of the main characters of

308-584: The Segal Design Institute , based at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science . The Block Museum houses a growing permanent collection of over 6,000 artworks. The collection is strong in prints, drawings, and photographs by American and European modern and contemporary artists. Specialized collections include American computer-generated artworks, Chicago-based printmakers of the 1930s and ‘40s, documentary photography of

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336-500: The Yale University Library's Gertrude Stein writing archives were displayed next to relevant drawings from Picasso. In April 2022, the museum surrendered 13 South Asian artifacts, valued at more than $ 1 million, as part of art looting investigation. As an affiliate of Yale University, the gallery offers education programs for university students, New Haven schools, and the general public. Two such programs are:

364-483: The 1960s as Woodstock and the Summer of Love. In the 1950s, Chicago-based design firm Goldsholl Design Associates made a name for itself with innovative "designs-in-film." Headed by Morton and Millie Goldsholl, the studio produced television spots, films, trademarks, corporate identities, and print advertisements for international corporations like Kimberly-Clark, Motorola, and 7-Up. Although they were compared to some of

392-461: The Art Gallery with steel structure and reinforced concrete may seem simple to the eye, it was designed in a rigorous process. Kahn and Anne Tyng , the first woman licensed as an architect in the state of Pennsylvania and an employee of Kahn's independent practice, "devised a slab that was to be poured into metal forms in the shape of three-sided pyramids. When the forms were removed, they left

420-654: The Block Museum's works are used in exhibitions, in wide-ranging curricula across the university, by students and faculty across disciplines, and by scholars and researchers regionally and nationally. The Block Museum collection can be browsed online via the museum's website. To view objects from the collection, the public can make an appointment in The Eloise W. Martin Study Center. Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery ( YUAG )

448-663: The Gallery Guide program, founded in 1998, which trains undergraduate students to lead tours at the museum; and the Wurtele Gallery Teachers, established in 2006, which include Yale graduate students from all school and backgrounds, who give curricula-informed tours to K-12 audiences. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program, but charges no admission. From 1946 to 1948, George Heard Hamilton

476-499: The Midwest, and South African prints of the early 1990s. Since 2016, The Block has increased the diversity of media and the international array of artists represented in its collection. Recent gifts and purchases have included videos, sculpture, drawings, photographs and installations by internationally known contemporary artists such as Paul Chan, Omar Victor Diop, Felix Gonzalez Torres and Carrie Mae Weems. An active teaching collection,

504-562: The artists archive to looks deeper to portray Moorman as a leading international figure in her own right. The exhibition traveled to New York University's Grey Art Gallery in Manhattan and to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . This group exhibition of contemporary work included works by artists Kristine Aono (b. 1960), Shan Goshorn (b. 1957), Samantha Hill (b. 1974), McCallum & Tarry (active 1998–2013), Dario Robleto (b. 1972), and Marie Watt (b. 1967). The exhibition contemplated

532-590: The end of World War II through the 1960s.Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture. Among the artists, musicians, and writers who looked to Blake were such diverse figures as Diane Arbus , Jay DeFeo, the Doors, Sam Francis, Allen Ginsberg, Jess, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Seliger, Maurice Sendak, Robert Smithson, Clyfford Still, and many others. This exhibition also explored visual cultures around such galvanizing moments of

560-559: The first time. The Block Museum exhibition was curated by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and traveled to The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (Sept. 21, 2019 – Feb. 23, 2020) and then to the National Museum of African Art , Smithsonian Institution (April 8 – Nov. 29, 2020) The original museum building was constructed in 1980 and was designed by Chicago architecture firm Loebl Schlossman & Hackl . The Block's outdoor sculpture garden

588-638: The most celebrated design firms of the day, the Goldsholls and their designers are relatively unknown today. The Block Museum's exhibition Up is Down reexamined the innovative work of Goldsholl Design Associates and its national impact. Presenting more than 250 artworks spanning five centuries and a vast geographic expanse, the exhibition features loans from partner institutions in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria, many of which will be seen in North America for

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616-529: The museum announced an $ 11 million gift from alumnus Stephen Susman , to create additional art exhibition galleries in a newly created fourth floor atop the Old Yale Art Gallery building. The expansion was completed in 2012, and included space for a rooftop sculpture garden. On the second floor (of the gallery) was a very valuable collection of paintings by John Trumbull , mainly of historical events. Among them were his well-known paintings of

644-509: The oldest ones still in use as part of the Yale University Art Gallery. A new building, designed by Yale University architect Egerton Swartwout , was completed in 1928. This building features a deliberately eclectic mix of Romanesque, Gothic and Classical features, with cornices, a pitched slate roof, and large windows set within stone arches, and was connected to Street Hall by an enclosed bridge over High Street. It

672-475: The present day. The permanent collection includes: In 2005, the museum announced that it had acquired 1,465 gelatin silver prints by the influential American landscape photographer Robert Adams . In 2009, the museum mounted an exhibition of its extensive collection of Picasso paintings and drawings, in collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University . For the first time, portions of

700-459: The present through works of art exploring themes of love, mourning, war, relocation, internment, resistance, and civil rights in 19th and 20th century North America. This exhibition explored the impact of British visionary poet and artist William Blake on a broad range of American artists in the post-World War II period. This exhibition was the first to consider how Blake's art and ideas were absorbed and filtered through American visual artists from

728-456: Was associate director at Yale University Art Gallery. In July 2018, Stephanie Wiles became the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery. Dirk Lohan Dirk Lohan (born 1938, Rathenow, Germany ) is a US architect and principal partner at Lohan Architecture. He studied architecture with his grandfather, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , and worked with him on projects like

756-482: Was established in 1989. Sixteen sculptures were gifts to Northwestern University by donors Mary and Leigh Block and other supporters. They are located outdoors and in indoor public spaces around Northwestern's Arts Circle, as well as in a sculpture garden designed by renowned Chicago architect John Vinci. The Block embarked on a major reconstruction project in 1999 and reopened in a new facility in September 2000, with

784-492: Was ultimately known as the "Old Yale Art Gallery" to contrast it with the modernist expansion added a couple of decades later. The gallery's modernist main building, built from 1947 to 1953, was among the first designed by Louis Kahn , who taught architecture at Yale. ("Kahn played a major role in Yale's own artistic development. And Yale in turn would give Kahn the commission that transformed his career as an architect.") Although

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