This is a highlight announcement on the installations at Japan section of the Yale University Art Gallery from Fall 2010 through Spring 2011.

Gallery is located at 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06520 (North side at Chapel)

A Momoyama-Period Screen of the Hie-Sanno Festival will be the highlight of the fall installation. Completely unknown in Japan, it is probably one of the oldest depictions of the ancient festival that originated in 1072. Lent by Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi, B.A. 1967 of New York City, to the Yale University Art Gallery, the screen will be shown to the public for the very first time as part of the 2010 fall term exhibition.

An equally fascinating byobu of Yujo Kabuki dated from the early 17th century, also on loan from the Longhi’s, will be shown subsequently from November through mid January 2011 at the Yale Art Gallery.

From February 3 through May 1, 2011, the Yale Center for British Art, situated across the street from the Yale Gallery will hold a solo-exhibition of a British abstract artist, Rebecca Salter.
Salter spent six formative years living in Japan, and her work is underpinned by Japanese artistic practices and aesthetics. A “dialogue” exhibition will be held at the Yale University Art Gallery which will consist of works by Japanese and American artists from the Yale’s collection and reinforced by a few loans from the Danziger collection of New York City. If you plan to travel between New York and Boston during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, this is a great chance to stop by the Yale Gallery. Although the older section of the Gallery building is under renovation, the beautifully renovated Kahn building is open to the public. Please take this opportunity to view the rare works on loan alongside Yale’s own collections.