Philadelphia klezmer legends, mother-daughter team Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Susan Sandler, will join Generation Klez in a special concert on February 12, at 8 p.m. in the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street. The concert is free and...
On Friday, February 15, the Yale Concert Band salutes Yale alumnus (Class of 1913) and premier American song-writer Cole Porter in a performance of some of his favorite hits. Among America’s most popular song-writers and arguably its most clever, Porter...
Members of the news media are invited to a guided tour of the Langston Hughes (1902-1967) exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Thursday, January 31, at 2 p.m. Titled “My Soul Has Grown Deep like the Rivers: Langston Hughes...
Konjo! a popular performance group based at Yale University’s Afro-American Cultural Center, is set to perform at the Yale University Art Gallery’s McNeil Lecture Hall, entrance on High Street, at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Konjo! is one of several groups...
The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host an art exhibition titled “Tikkun Ha’Olam: Meditations in Blue,” paintings by Mindy Weisel, in memory of Dr. Donald Cohen, former director of Yale’s Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor...
Internationally acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will deliver a lecture in two parts titled “Step Across This Line” as this year’s Tanner lecturer, focusing on the theme, “The Virtues of Tolerance and the Crossing of Lines: Islam in the History of Western...
Famed salsa musician Eddie Palmieri will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, with a performance scheduled for April 22 at 8:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall and an April 23 symposium to be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery’s McNeil...
Yale President Richard C. Levin announced today that Maya Lin has been elected the next Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Ms. Lin, a graduate of both Yale College and Yale’s Architecture School, will be the first artist to serve on the Yale...
Real estate developer and urban planner Joseph B. Rose, the acclaimed structural engineer Cecil Balmond and 2002 Pritzker Prize winner Glenn Murcutt are among the celebrated speakers who will lecture at the Yale School of Architecture this coming term....
An exhibition of work by artist and longtime Yale professor Richard Lytle will be at the Yale School of Art September 30-October 19. Lytle, who came to Yale as a student in the 1950s and is now retiring after more than 40 years on the faculty, has...