A work of art was taking shape one late spring afternoon on the 11th floor of 100 College Street, soon to be home to Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. Vivid planes of color — green, blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple — stretched along a 49-foot-long wall,...
Sarah Victoria Turner, an art historian and curator who specializes in the cultural relationships between Britain and India, has been appointed director of Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a London-based educational charity and...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we introduce you to an alum, and now critic, at Yale School of Architecture whose Brooklyn firm was recently recognized as one of the world’s most innovative emerging...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
In the painting, a doll-like figure dressed in ruffles and jewels, wearing heavy rouge, and carrying a bloodied knife, stares with piercing green eyes into the abyss. Nude dancing women surround him, neon-colored grass at their feet. Behind them, a figure...
Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a nerve and even provoked rioting in the Paris streets....