Leo Tolstoy, his long beard white, stood beside a horse in a photograph on a screen under the Yale Farm’s Lazarus Pavilion. A second image showed an aerial photograph of the author’s estate, Yasnaya Polyana. A bungee cord tied to a cinderblock anchored...
Visitors to the Yale University Art Gallery ponder and enjoy the more than 4,000 works on display, but as is the case at many museums, the objects on view represent a small portion of the gallery’s holdings.
Out of necessity, tens of thousands of art...
A study of two travellers in the Near East at the dawn of the 20th century; a retrospective of a pioneering Yale sociologist murdered in Indonesia; an examination of public housing in New Haven; and a story of three generations of an African-American...
Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of medieval English manuscripts awaited them.
Hurley and...
Every Monday at 4 p.m., Ayala Mack visits Yale to study Arabic.
Languages fascinate Mack, a ninth-grade student at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, and Yale is helping her to feed that passion. She is one of 280 students from area...
Major Charles Seligman, a U.S. Air Force chaplain stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, has traveled to Yale monthly since August to study the concept of healing.
Seligman is one of 15 clergy participating in Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) recently...
The black-and-white photograph shows four African American soldiers posed beside a solitary grave in the French countryside at the close of World War I.
An ornamental enclosure surrounds the grave, which is marked by a large decorative cross. It is the...
The Vinland Map, a source of curiosity and controversy since it entered the public consciousness a half-century ago, is spread out on a table at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) underneath a geodesic-dome cage.
An array of...
Yale University today announced the 2018 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight recipients, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive a $165,000 individual prize to support their writing.
The 2018 recipients of the...