The diary of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose family hid from the Nazis in Holland for two harrowing years, fuels one man’s mission in “Compulsion,” the next play at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The world premiere of the play by Rinne Groff will be...
A special installation now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery showcases a graphic artist’s “visual language” for depicting timeless philosophical messages.Titled “Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics,” the display will continue through March 7....
The relationship of British artists to their counterparts across the English Channel will be explored in the exhibition “Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp,” which opens on Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Yale...
The English language is rife with idioms that use clothing as metaphor: “If the shoe fits, wear it,” “speaking off the cuff” and “skirting the issue,” for example.The relationship between words — especially literature — and the world of fashion is...
It will soon be possible to “attend” Yale musical performances in your pajamas, thanks to a new “Virtual Concert Hall” program being launched by the Yale School of Music.Beginning in February, the school will present live, online concerts in Morse Recital...
The acclaimed restoration by Polshek Partnership Architects of Louis I. Kahn’s building of Yale University’s Art Gallery has earned the New York firm a 2010 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.The three-year renovation of the 1953...
Yale School of Art is holding a silent auction of small-scale work by students and faculty from January 25 to February 8 to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti.The donated works will be on display at Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel Street, from...
When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this multimedia work to benefit from contemporary lighting...
Sheila L. de Bretteville, the newly named Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design, is a noted graphic designer and public artist who was designated in 2006 as a “Design Legend” by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.Her work reflects her...
Peter D. Eisenman, the inaugural Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice, is an internationally renowned architect and educator whose recent projects include the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, a stadium for the NFL Arizona Cardinals and the six-building...