CCAM is thrilled to be working with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas to present director and immersive artist Tamara Shogaolu’s augmented-reality installation “Un(re)solved” — a collaboration between her studio, Ado Ato Pictures, and FRONTLINE (PBS). Please join us on Thursday, June 9 at 5:30pm EDT for a virtual conversation about the piece between Tamara and artist and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, hosted by CCAM Assistant Director Lauren Dubowski.

The museum’s docents discuss the special exhibition Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction. This exhibition is the largest survey in the United States in over twenty years of the British abstract artist Bridget Riley. For seven decades Riley has explored line, form, shape, pattern, and color to create dynamic works of art that pulse, shift, and glow with energy and movement. Our docents will discuss the exhibition, Riley’s history, and her influences over this impressive career.

Join the Working Women’s Network and Yale African American Affinity Group for a conversation with Rosalyn Story about her new novel, Sing Her Name: A Novel. Follow the path of two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time.

This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books treat the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet.

Register by Friday, June 24th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

To mark Independence Day 2023, the Beinecke Library continues its tradition of public readings on July 5 at 4pm on the library mezzanine of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, and of the oration by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, in which he asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”

Topography is central to William Hogarth’s canonical progress series, in which London settings play a decisive narrative role. Lesser-known works by the artist, however, also engage with topographical representation. Pierre Von-Ow’s online exhibition “William Hogarth’s Topographies” considers the artist’s illustrations of national and colonized geographies beyond the metropole. Among international topographical views are Hogarth’s illustrations of Sápmi in the Scandinavian north, referred to at the time as “Lapland.”