The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s latest building-wide exhibition, “+ The Art of Collaboration,” explores the excitement and power of how separate elements combine to make things that are new, beautiful, strange, and memorable. On view from...
“Text and Textile,” on view at Beinecke Library from May 3 through Aug. 12, explores the intersections of text and textile in literature and politics, from images of Eve spinning in a 13th-century manuscript to the mill girls of New England in the 19th...
“The North American West has been inhabited for millennia, but our vision of its history and cultures has been shaped, perhaps disproportionally, by the modern invention of photography,” says George Miles, the William Robertson Coe Curator of Western...
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host the temporary display “Siegfried Sassoon: Scrapbook & Owen Johnson: From ‘Stover at Yale’ to ‘The Wasted Generation’”...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist.
Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1987,...
Creative Yale alumni will join with current students, faculty, and staff stage onstage at the University Theatre Jan. 23–24 for three performances of a new production of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man.”. The production will feature Broadway’s David...
Willie Ruff ’53 Mus.B ., ’54 Mus.M., a professor in the Yale School of Music since 1971, was honored on Dec. 4 by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven with its C. Newton Schenck III Award for lifetime achievement in and contribution to the arts.Willie...
“Art can change the world,” says alumnus Titus Kaphar ’06 M.F.A. He believes this because it changed his world, providing him with a way to understand history and society, develop his talents, and share knowledge. It’s a belief he brings both to his...