Gallery+ Tangled Up in Blue

Thirteen young adults pose outdoors, all facing the viewer. The majority of them stand tightly huddled, side by side, while five of them kneel in front. One of the kneeling figures holds a guitar, while another holds a banjo.

Tangled Up in Blue, spring tour 2022. Photo courtesy Burke Griggs

Tangled Up in Blue, Yale’s premier American folk-singing group, presents a performance at the Yale University Art Gallery that responds to themes and objects in the exhibition The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917.      

Gallery+ is an ongoing series of collaborations that invites responses to the Gallery’s collection through special programs and performances. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.    

Major support for The Dance of Life is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support provided by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.