New Havenâs Art Scene: Always Excellent, and Now Reopening
This city of 130,000 has always punched above its cultural weight. Now as its museums come back to life, visitors can see works by van Gogh, Rothko and Hirst anew.
The Yale University Art Gallery, which reopened on May 14, includes works by Winslow Homer and Jean-Michel Basquiat.Credit...Jessica Smolinski
By Brett Sokol
NEW HAVEN, Conn. â Call her mood one of anxious joy.
As the Yale Center for British Art prepares to reopen June 4, its director, Courtney J. Martin, said she is thrilled to finally flip the lights back on. Recalling that somber moment in March 2020 when the center joined art institutions across the country in abruptly closing, she said, âWe left to an unknown â we didnât know what we were going home to, we didnât know when we would return.â