“Luminous Transportations,” a site-specific installation by artist Jo Yarrington, is on view at Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel from April 5 through April 27. The exhibition is curated by author and architectural historian Judith Dupré, an M.Div....
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored seven Yale faculty with election as new members: Joseph G. Altonji, Peter Cresswell, Paul Harris Freedman, Alanna Schepartz, Günter P. Wagner, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Craig Milton Wright.They are among...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the...
A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.The grant is the first made to...
From providing open access to Yale’s vast collection of digital images to establishing a new literary prize, from the earliest discovery of rock art in Egypt to the creation of a center for preserving cultural heritage, here are 10 stories that made...
Early in 1842 , on the eve of his 30th birthday, Charles Dickens made his first trip to America. The author at that time of “Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “The Old Curiosity Shop, ” the young novelist was celebrated on both...