Current and former members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will work this semester with an ensemble of Yale dancers on a re-staging of Jones’ seminal work “D-Man in the Waters” (1989), set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E Flat Major...
NHdocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival will pay special tribute to the artistry of renowned documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, who will also be on hand to discuss his works.
More than 100 documentary films — including world premieres — will be...
It begins with a bike tour on the East Coast Greenway and ends with a performance by the Grammy-nominated Cuban timba group Tienpo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In between, there will be circus acts; storytelling; discussions about art,...
As a young high school student, poet and novelist Eileen Myles sat in on a class at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, envying the ability of the art students to draw the form of the partially unclothed model before them.
In the keynote address...
For Yale alumna and staff member Michelle Beaulieu-Morgan ’17 Ph.D., the stitches in her embroidered art now on view in an exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) are more than her creative medium; they also mark steps forward on her road to...
The annual month-long arts festival known as City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) will kick off with an opening reception on Oct. 4, and the work of dozens of Yale-affiliated artists will be on view.
Yale is a major sponsor of CWOS, Connecticut’s leading visual...
Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale and renowned poet whose evocative voice has for decades shaped the literary landscape, on Oct. 8 received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish National Academy announced.
Glück, who...
Four years ago, while grieving the deaths of two close friends in separate accidents, Yale senior Mary Yap began asking herself some deep questions about life and her own place in it.
“It was a really rough year, and a reminder that life is short,” said...
As part of the premiere of the multimedia production “The Wandering” at Yale, the creative team workshopped the show with a group of 13 Yale undergraduate and graduate students to help perfect the various elements of the piece prior to its April 15 launch...