A sign near the main entrance to the Yale University Art Gallery says, "You may carefully touch." It's an invitation to set in motion a sculpture made of fragments of cast iron, broken porcelain and stainless steel by the contemporary American artist Robert Hudson. A modest push and the piece slowly revolves, its blue, rust and chrome chasing each other as if on a miniature carousel.
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Few barriers keep visitors from closely inspecting the sculptures, paintings and thousands of other artworks on display from the university's encyclopedic collection — and admission is free. When the gallery officially reopened on Wednesday after a renovation that lasted 14 years and cost $135 million, the country's oldest university art museum — its various parts built in 1866, 1928 and 1953 — had been magnificently transformed and expanded with 75 percent more exhibition space.
Like a teaching hospital, this teaching museum is designed for active learning. Most of the collection is accessible, so even objects that are not on display can be readily brought to seminar rooms for students to examine closely.
"The Night Café," by Vincent van Gogh, is one of the gallery's most famous works. The morning of the opening, a group of Yale graduate students in art history, who teach local K-12 students about art by showing and talking with them about works in the gallery, met for a training session. The class was led by John Walsh, a distinguished art historian and expert in Dutch painting.
In an intimate second-floor gallery, the group clustered around the painting. When Mr. Walsh spoke about the emotionalism in the work, he quoted the artist, "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity." Van Gogh saw the all-night bar, he explained, as "a devil's furnace" where miserable people went to drown their loneliness and, like the painting itself, ended up off-kilter.
"This was about painting what you feel, believe, calculate, not what you see," he said of the artist's aims. Mr. Walsh was teaching the students about the process of creation, and how to help others see that, too.
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