‘NEW PERSPECTIVES’ CONFERENCE WILL BE MARCH 30–31 AT YCBA

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Yale Center for British Art will present a conference, “New Perspectives on the Panorama,” Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, from 9 am to 6:30 pm each day.

Drawing on provocative new work on panoramas, this conference will rethink the orthodoxies that currently characterize approaches to traditional 360-degree panorama paintings and broader notions of the panoramic through an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars and artists working in a wide range of fields, including cultural geography, art history, literary studies, architecture, theater studies, film, photography and the fine arts.

Papers will explore the aesthetics of 360-degree painting from its inception in the Eighteenth Century to its resurgence in contemporary practice, its relationship to architecture and film, and its social and political contexts.

The program includes discussion sessions with curators and artists that draw upon the holdings of panorama-related material at the Yale Center for British Art and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The keynote lecture on Friday at 5:30 pm will be given by British filmmaker Patrick Keiller. Keiller’s most recent work, Londres, Bombay is a moving-image reconstruction of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly Victoria Terminus, as 30 high-definition video projections of up to 20 minutes duration.

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