View allAll Photos Tagged active
Active shooter" is a term given to a person who is intended to kill people in a confined area. Such people use firearms to harm people but there's no pattern or method to decide who is going to be their target. The situation lasts for about 10 to 15 minutes but within that much time, it is possible that you can get traumatized for life. Hence, it is suggested that you must keep yourself prepared for such situations by enrolling yourself in online active shooter courses or getting yourself trained at a center. With that being said, below are some of the useful tips that you can consider if you're willing to get an idea about dealing with an active shooter situation. Read more: www.defenderschool.com.
#NWGA #Fox5 Hundreds learn keys to saving someone's life in active shooter situation t.co/Jtn5eeKYFN (via Twitter twitter.com/RedneckGremlin/status/968347621659209734)
William Hodges, born in London, England, 1744; active in England, the South Pacific, and India;
died in Brixham, England, 1797
A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti] - 1776
The son of a blacksmith, William Hodges was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to the Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson. In 1772 the artist joined Captain James Cook’s second expedition to the South Pacific as a draftsman. During the grueling three-year voyage on the Resolution, Hodges produced a remarkable series of drawings and paintings of the indigenous peoples and landscapes of the South Seas, whose existence and physical appearance had previously been in the realm of fantasy for Europeans. After his return to London, Hodges exhibited this luminous view of Matavai Bay, Tahiti, at the Royal Academy. The painting, which depicts Tahitian war galleys, proclaims Hodges’s ambitions to be a chronicler of the course of the rapidly expanding British Empire but also reveals his sympathetic attitude toward the indigenous peoples he depicted, his sensitivity to light and atmosphere, and his poetic sensibility.
In 1772 William Hodges took to sea on the HMS Resolution as official artist on Captain James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific. In August of 1773, the explorers arrived in Tahiti, where the artist encountered a spectacular natural beauty and fecundity. Hodges later used his sketches to create resplendent paintings that were instrumental in establishing the vision of Polynesia as an untainted tropical paradise in the European mind’s eye. This classical depiction of Matavai Bay would seem to equate Tahiti with a mythical Arcadia. Nowhere in this picture can one glimpse a Western officer or vessel. Rather, the focus is on the physical and sensual ease of the young Tahitian men in the foreground and the three magnificent Tahitian war galleys in the middle and far distance.
___________________________
February 21, 2025
Installation of the Long Gallery is now complete! In this space—beloved to many of our visitors—you can wander around all seven of the twenty-foot-square bays and encounter 200 paintings and five sculptures, primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Originally called the Study Gallery, this space on the south side of the fourth floor was designed to allow students and scholars to engage with artworks that otherwise would have been in storage. It was renamed the Long Gallery in 1998 and is now accessible to all. The works are densely hung, with each wall dedicated to a specific theme.
“The Long Gallery is a special place to encounter art,” says Edward Town, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture. “In the new hang, we have added partition walls along the south side of the gallery, giving us considerably more space to showcase areas of depth in the collection. This means we can share more themes, create new connections, and increase the potential for teaching and learning in this remarkable space.”
britishart.yale.edu/news-and-press/installation-long-gallery
Opened in 1977 through the generosity of Yale graduate and philanthropist Paul Mellon, the Yale Center for British Art holds the largest and most significant collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection spans five centuries and is the foundation for a museum uniquely focused on the histories, legacies, and shifting contexts of British art. Housed in a celebrated modernist building designed by Louis I. Kahn, the museum is situated on the Yale University campus in the city of New Haven. It is free and open to all.
"On the campus of Yale University, two art museums housed in landmark modernist buildings — each designed by Louis I. Kahn — sit directly across the street from one another. One, the Yale University Art Gallery, with an encyclopedic collection of about 300,000 objects, draws close to a quarter million people annually. The other, the Yale Center for British Art, with its specialized collection of more than 100,000 works from the 15th century to the present, brings in less than half that traffic.
The British center is now aiming to even up those visitor numbers.
It reopened in March after a two-year closure for conservation of the skylights and lighting throughout the building — the acclaimed architect’s last realized project, which opened in 1977 and is widely considered an artwork in itself — and with a fresh exhibition philosophy.
A piece by Tracey Emin, who came to fame as one of the so-called Young British Artists in the 1990s alongside peers like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, inaugurates a new program of contemporary works in the lobby. Her glowing sculptural installation, with yellow neon lighting proclaiming in script “I loved you until the morning” on a mirrored wall in the museum’s entrance court, is visible from the street. It serves as an “invitation” at the front door, said Martina Droth, the center’s director, who was appointed in January after working with its collections for 16 years, most recently as chief curator."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/arts/design/yale-british-art-t...
The museum’s collections include more than 2,000 paintings, 250 sculptures, 20,000 drawings and watercolors, 40,000 prints, and 35,000 rare books and manuscripts dating from the fifteenth century to the present. More than 40,000 volumes supporting research in British art and related fields are available in the Reference Library. The collection is rich with historic works by John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, and J. M. W. Turner, as well as works by major artists of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, including Hurvin Anderson, Francis Bacon, Vanessa Bell, Sonia Boyce, Cecily Brown, Barbara Hepworth, Anish Kapoor, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Yinka Shonibare, and Barbara Walker.
britishart.yale.edu/collections-overview
One of the museum's greatest treasures is the building itself. Opened to the public in 1977, the Yale Center for British Art is the last building designed by the internationally acclaimed American architect Louis I. Kahn. The structure integrates the dual functions of study center and gallery, while providing an environment for works of art that is appropriately elegant and dignified. The building stands across the street from Kahn’s first major commission, the Yale University Art Gallery (1953). Located in downtown New Haven, the YCBA is near many of the city’s best restaurants, theaters, and shops.
The YCBA’s exterior of matte steel and reflective glass confers a monumental presence in downtown New Haven. The geometrical four-floor interior is designed around two interior courtyards and is comprised of a restrained palette of natural materials including travertine marble, white oak, concrete, and Belgian linen. Kahn succeeded in creating intimate galleries where one can view objects in diffused natural light. He wanted to allow in as much daylight as possible, with artificial illumination used only on dark days or in the evening. The building’s design, materials, and skylit rooms combine to provide an environment for the works of art that is simple and dignified.
britishart.yale.edu/architecture
.
Try a free demo glide at Run Against Drugs thanks to Plymouth Segway Rental who will be moving to the Nankin Mills Barn in Westland, MI on Hines Drive this spring!