The Week Ender: Happenings May 29-31
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university Friday-Sunday.
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Tour the exhibit Whistler in Paris, London, and Venice, dedicated to James Abbott McNeill Whistler. On display are three of the artist’s earliest and most innovative sets of etchings which are representative of three important periods in Whistler’s life: as a student in Paris; as an emerging artist in London; and as a well-known artist and teacher in Venice. Yale University Art Gallery, Free. 1111 Chapel St. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Learn about Samurai and Japanese culture at the exhibition Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace. View artifacts from the many-layered history of the samurai and those they ruled. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
View the media exhibit Anthropology at Yale University, which highlights scholarship from the social and biological sciences, and the humanities and physical sciences. The exhibit looks at work by faculty and staff in fields such as sociocultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. Free. Kline Biology Tower, Center for Science & Social Science Information, 24-hour space.
Tour the first major collaborative exhibition between the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860 is an exhibit of treasured works from both museums’ collections displayed together at the gallery. Free. 1111 Chapel St. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Get a close look at 250 Years of Blackstone’s Commentaries. In the 250 years since its publication, Sir William Blackstone’s “Commentaries on the Laws of England” has become the single most influential book in Anglo-American law. The exhibit draws on the Yale Law Library’s Blackstone Collection, the largest in the world, to illustrate the origins of the book, its impact on legal education and legal scholarship, its numerous translations, and even the satires that it spawned. Free. Lillian Goldman Law Library, 127 Wall St. Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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