If first-year students at Yale School of Architecture have it right, the open “loft style” floor plan – with kitchen and living areas flowing together – which has dominated home design for decades, may be on the way out. Yale’s famous First Year...
A painting by Bernard Chaet, the William Leffingwell Professor Emeritus of Painting at the Yale School of Art, has received the Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize from the National Academy of Art. The painting, titled “A.M.,” is featured in the Academy’s...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies, will donate the manuscript of “The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” by Hannah Crafts, to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at a ceremony on May 30. The...
Graham Swift, one of Britain’s leading writers, will read from his own work at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., May 7 at 4 p.m. Swift is the author of seven books, including “Shuttlecock,” “Waterland,” “Ever After” –...
The work of 19th-century artist and writer James Gilchrist Swan, who chronicled the culture of Native Americans of the Northwest in paintings and drawings, will be on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., from April...
In celebration of the 91st birthday, on April 21, of pioneering photojournalist Eve Arnold, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale announces the acquisition of the first of two parts of the photographer’s archive. An American of Russian...
Franz Rosenthal, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Yale University, died on April 8 in Branford, CT., after a long illness. “Franz Rosenthal was a man of total intellectual integrity, a renowned interpreter of Islamic religion and Arabic...
The New England Regional Conference on Medical Anthropology, devoted to anthropological approaches to health research, will take place at Yale University on April 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. This one-day symposium includes 16 speakers who will present a variety of...
On March 27, the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will host a talk by Gilbert Rose, MD, on the meaning of musical expression, a subject of philosophical inquiry throughout the ages. Titled “How Does Music Mean? What...
Responding to a critical national shortage of academic librarians, Yale University Library and Yale’s Office of Graduate Career Services are sponsoring a symposium on April 11 to inform graduate students in the humanities about professional opportunities...