Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, another landmark of the same history, a 1,250-year-old...
While drafting his plans for the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), architect Louis Kahn made the building’s roof integral to its design.
The acclaimed architect, who called the roof of the iconic modernist building its “fifth elevation,” aimed to...
Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
A tiny mahogany slipcase of microscope slides on display at the Yale University Art Gallery raises issues of conquest, colonialism, and empire.
The slipcase, created in the workshop of a Dutch diamond merchant and gem setter in the early 19th century,...
In a celebration of African-American history, culture, and resiliency, the Yale Camerata’s spring concert, “To Sit and Dream,” will feature works that combine the words of W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes — two giants of American letters — with music by...
Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there’s a simple new way to make astonishing connections among millions of objects.
Starting...
Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a nerve and even provoked rioting in the Paris streets....
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
Sarah Victoria Turner, an art historian and curator who specializes in the cultural relationships between Britain and India, has been appointed director of Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a London-based educational charity and...
In late 2008, author Cynthia Ozick received a letter from author John Updike, who reported having pneumonia.
“I returned from Russia with sniffles that wouldn’t go away and now we have unleashed all the diagnostic hounds of Mass. General Hospital,” wrote...