Rethinking Exile at the Yale University Art Gallery
With its newly opened exhibition, the YUAG expands the narrative of exile and migration through the arts.
With its newly opened exhibition, the YUAG expands the narrative of exile and migration through the arts.
“The excavations [of Dura Europos] done by the Yale team in the early part of the twentieth century likely saved these priceless pieces of religious and cultural history from the merciless destruction of the Islamic State. But they did so at a price—removing these pieces from their homeland and rehoming them in the basement of a Western university.”