Yale University announced on March 29 the eight recipients of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes, marking the 10th anniversary of one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The writers, whose works explore the personal as well as...
Sarah Onyinyechukwu Okeke has a passion for photography and a keen understanding of how a photograph can connect people.
“The thing about photography that I particularly love is being able to capture a moment and then other people being able to feel...
Deborah Berke, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and composer Christopher Theofanidis ’94 M.M.A. ’97 D.M.A., professor of composition and practice at the Yale School of Music, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of...
Alison Gilchrest, who for over a decade has led national and international initiatives to promote collaboration in the field of cultural heritage conservation, has been appointed as the new director of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
Art and other cultural heritage objects in Yale’s renowned collections tend to travel. The university’s museums and libraries frequently loan objects to one another, as well as to institutions across the country and abroad, for display in public...
Architect Constance Adams ’90 M.Arch. designed housing in Berlin and created urban plans in Tokyo. But she achieved her greatest acclaim conceiving habitats for space explorers.
Known as a “space architect,” Adams designed NASA’s TransHab, an inflatable,...
The artist Kehinde Wiley’s work often reinvents portrait paintings by old masters, inserting Black subjects in place of white nobles, saints, and dignitaries. His “Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite,” recently co-acquired by...
Janine di Giovanni was reporting from Iraq in the months before the U.S. invasion in 2003 when she traveled to the northern city of Mosul. There, she discovered an ancient community of Christians who prayed in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
The people...
The lights dim in the screening room on Sterling Memorial Library’s seventh floor, the new home of the Yale Film Archive. A projector whirs. Eight undergraduates watch five short, animated films in their original 16 mm format. Then they don plastic...