Yale Center for British Art

You feel like we were, we were his first contact with Dublin on his return.

He had been studying with Kahn at Pennsylvania and then worked with Kahn on the British Art Center in Yale.

Mm.

Did the working drawings for that building or some of them.

I'm getting flashbacks of all the amazing archives that I've had a chance to visit over the decade, I guess, that I've been doing this research.

The archaeological site at Jamestown, lots of museums, including the YCBA, actually, on your doorstep.

But I think one of the most recent findings that I made was...

Just at the National Archives in London, so maybe not the most exciting locale, but that is the location of the inventory of all the things that Walter Raleigh carried with him when he was arrested trying to flee England for France shortly before his execution in 1618.

Hugh unveiled GILT, the facade commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in September 2022, and its groundbreaking show, Hugh Lock, What Have We Here, opened at the British Museum in fall 2024.

Hugh Locke Passages, his largest solo exhibition of his work to date debuted at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven and traveled to the Wexner Center of Art in Columbus and is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Hugh and I talk Calypso, A Mask in Istanbul, audiobooks, colonialism, Guiana, his upcoming show at PPOW, album art desire, and much more.

Here's our conversation.