Yale Gallery Goes Beyond​“The Scream”

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Yale Gallery Goes Beyond​“The Scream”

The Yale University Art Gallery’s show​“Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression” — running now through June 23 on the gallery’s fourth floor at 1111 Chapel St. — begins with a moment at an art gallery over 100 years ago that feels like it could happen today, or any time. In 1912, the text relates, there was a​“monumental exhibition of modern art” in Cologne, Germany that​“aimed to illustrate how the most cutting-edge groups of the day drew inspiration from the work of a slightly older generation.” That big-tent approach, however, turned out to be fraught.