The concept of “travel” contains multitudes: adventurous voyages, forced migrations, documentary explorations, meditative immersions. Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry in the Yale Collection of American Literature, and organizer of the Beinecke Library’s...
When the Beijing Olympics take over your television, one of those in charge of delivering it to you is Daniel Fleschner ’01, an Emmy-winning writer and producer and NBC’s vice president for content and programming for the Olympics. He and his team (...
Under an early evening dusk, made darker by rain clouds overhead, shades of red, blue, and rose flowed across the white façade of 17 Hillhouse Avenue as an electronic landscape of sounds pulsed from speakers.
This was the scene on a recent April evening,...
One afternoon last fall, an exhibit began to take shape under the delicately arched dome of the Gates Classroom, in Sterling Memorial Library. For nearly 4 months, Chucho Martínez Padres ’23 had been immersed in the archive of George Kubler, PhD ’40, a...
On a rainy fall afternoon, nearly a dozen first-year undergraduates gathered in the Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Gallery of Ancient Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, unfolding stools in front of a table cushioned by a thickly padded blue blanket...
A work of art was taking shape one late spring afternoon on the 11th floor of 100 College Street, soon to be home to Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. Vivid planes of color — green, blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple — stretched along a 49-foot-long wall,...
In an event last month, the Wu Tsai Institute (WTI) presented new paintings by Prudence Whittlesey, who recently arrived as the institute’s first artist in residence.
Whittlesey, a 2020 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, will spend the fall...