Yale Art Gallery

Rarely does the first major work of an iconic architect face his last major work, in the same building type, open to the public, free of charge, and in excellent condition. Louis I Kahnʹs seminal, recently restored addition to the Yale University Art Gallery is just across Chapel Street from his Yale Center for British Art. Jayne Merkel describes the interiors of these mid-20th-century modern masterpieces and the recent Herculean efforts to return them to Kahnʹs intentions while making them suitable for the preservation, study and exhibition of art according to 21st-century standards. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.