Lunder Institute @ Yale Center for British Art

Lunder Institute @ invites art institutions worldwide to critically examine American art—its history, future, and ongoing evolution—through internal, cross-departmental conversations, and to share their findings through public programming.

Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Lunder Institute @ Yale Center for British Art reconsiders American resistance not as a singular political rupture but as a material and visual process shaped through objects, images, and everyday rituals. Rather than treating independence as an abstract ideal, it asks how freedom was experienced, negotiated, resisted, and contested through practices often far from the political stage yet deeply enmeshed in global systems of extraction and exploitation.