He had blossomed in the Bauhaus, fled the Nazis, epitomized the zeitgeist at Black Mountain College, and infused the Yale School of Art with the spirit of experiment.
He’d also produced a vast and growing series of artworks that would land him squarely...
Since its founding in 1908, Yale University Press has published a varied and storied range of works, among them winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and other major honors. This list of...
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...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we catch up with a Yale scholar who was recently elected to a leadership role at the Modern Language Association; celebrate a major honor for The Yale Review; bask...
A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. Cécile Fromont, a professor in the history of art in Yale’s...