‘Framing The Orient’ Feb. 6 At YCBA

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‘FRAMING THE ORIENT’ FEB. 6 AT YCBA

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Yale Center for British Art will present an opening panel discussion, “Framing the Orient,” on Wednesday, February 6, at 5:30 pm. for the exhibition “The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830–1925.”

Panelists include Reina Lewis (moderator), Artscom centenary professor in fashion studies, London College of Fashion; Ala Alryyes, assistant professor of comparative literature and English, Yale University; Christine Riding, curator of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British art, Tate Britain; Eleanor Hughes, postdoctoral research associate, Yale Center for British Art; and Mary Roberts, The John Schaeffer Senior Lecturer in British Art, University of Sydney.

The center is at 1080 Chapel Street. For more information, www.yale.edu/ycba or 203-432-2800.