SIDE SHOW

Artists included

Diane Arbus
Max Beckmann
Susan Meiselas
Weegee
Otto Dix
Peter Blake
Chris Daze Ellis
Roger Brown
Pamela Joseph
Jane Dickson
David Carbone
Johnny Meah
Arnold Mesches
Robert Cruikshank
John Kay
John Waters
Al Stencell
Fred Kahl
Toni Lee Sangastiano
Marie Roberts
Edward Kelty
Anonymous
Henry Gerbault
Fred Johnson
Joe Coleman
David Snap Wyatt
James Mundie
Ed Paschke
Riva Lehrer
Unknown
And others

In January 2015, the Yale School of Art’s 32 Edgewood Gallery presented Side Show, an exhibition about the intersection of fine art and the historical American popular entertainment world of the side show - in which the bodily display of the abnormal, human or animal, would be the focus of the event. Issues of race, ethnicity, gender and disability will be considered.

Side Show

On view January 13 - March 20, 2015

Yale School of Art
32 Edgewood Gallery
Gallery Hours, 12 6pm, Tuesday Sunday (closed Mondays)

Opening reception January 13, 6.30-8.30pm with sideshow acts Johnny Fox and The Great Fredini and performance artists Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz, following a lecture by Ricky Jay, Magician, Collector and Historian at 5.30pm, 36 Edgewood, room 204

Panel Discussion February 20, 6.30-8.00pm with performer Todd Robbins, Artistic Director, Coney Island, USA Dick Zigun YSD ’78, Performer/Director Jennifer Miller, artists Riva Lehrer and Pamela Joseph, following a performance by Coney Island USA Presents The Coney Island Circus Sideshow at 5.30pm, 36 Edgewood, room 204, (courtesy of the Traphagen Fund)

Lecture with artist Jane Dickson,Feb. 3, 12.30pm, 353 Crown Street, room C220

Lecture with Kathleen Maher, curator at the Barnum Museum, February 13, 12.30-1.30pm, 1156 Chapel Street

Lecture with Yale University Art Gallery artist-in-residence, Chris Daze, January 21, 6.30pm, 1156 Chapel Street, room B03

Banner painting workshop with Coney Island artist-in-residence, Marie Roberts, January 30, 11.00am-4.00pm, 1156 Chapel Street

Sign hand-lettering workshop with artist Joe Amrhein, Friday, February 6

Poynter Fellowship lecture with cultural critic, Mark Dery, February 19, 1.30-3.20pm, 1156 Chapel Street, room B03

Poynter Fellowship lecture with James Taylor, historian and publisher of Shocked and Amazed, March 3, 6.30-8.00pm, 1156 Chapel Street, room B03

Poynter Fellowship lecture with photographer Susan Meiselas, Feb. 24, 130-3pm 1156 Chapel Street, room B03

For more information: (203) 432 2600
Open to the public and free of charge, seating first come, first-served.

Lisa Kereszi, MFA 2000, Critic, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art, and Curator of the Exhibition

This exhibition has been made possible by an Anonymous Donor with support from the Hayden Fund for Arts and Ideas.