Visitors to New York this summer will have three venues where they can view artwork by Jessica Stockholder, professor and director of graduate studies in sculpture at the Yale School of Art.“Flooded Chambers Maid,” Stockholder’s first major outdoor...
Depictions of the British reactions to the French Revolution are on view in a new exhibition at Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.The show — titled “‘French Liberty. British Slavery.’ British Responses to the French Revolution” —...
If you think of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a tomb for old “dead” books where only the most somber of scholars conduct research, curators Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young hope a visit to their “Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities” might make...
Lynn Nottage, a visiting lecturer at the School of Drama, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play “Ruined,” about a group of women who were raped and brutalized during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Pulitzer board described...
Paintings by some of the leading artists of the Victorian period - all collected by entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway as an educational tool for college women - are featured in a new exhibition opening May 7 at the Yale Center for British...
Three works by graduating playwrights at the Yale School of Drama will be staged May 8-17 during the fourth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays.There will be 12 performances of the plays - “American Catnip” by Mattie Brickman, “The Bedtrick” by Matt...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Titled “Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans 1939-1964,” the...
Academy award-winning actress and Yale alumna Jodie Foster will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 29, when she will be honored by the University’s Film Studies Program and take part in a conversation with members of the Yale community.The conversation...
The art of ketubah — the marriage contract Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day — is featured in a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library.The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s...