All over the world pig roasts are held to mark significant occasions. The Yale Sustainable Food Project will roast a 200-pound pig in honor of one of the most important occasions on a college campus: the last day of classes.Now in its third year, the...
Yale Law School graduate Ken Chen, currently executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, has won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry prize and is considered one...
An accidental Don Juan, a mysterious household and “Hamlet” in the basement are the subjects of three new plays by emerging playwrights being staged May 7-16 during the Yale School of Drama’s fifth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays.The works — fully...
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...
The M.F.A. candidates in the Graphic Design Department of the Yale School of Art will present their thesis work in a genre-defying exhibition titled “Off the Wall,” to be held May 15–22 at Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel Street. The gallery is open daily...
An exhibit of New Yorker covers devoted to musical subjects will open at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments on Wednesday, May 12.Titled “The Lighter Side of Music: New Yorker Covers (1931-2010),” the show features the works of 23 New...
Art Place, a nonprofit arts organization founded and supported by Yale Medical Group, will open its 16th show with a reception on May 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Ave.The exhibition features new work by six regional...
Citing Kroon Hall as a “stunning addition” to the Yale campus and a “lesson in aesthetic brilliance,” the British weekly magazine Architects’ Journal has named the LEED platinum-rated home of the School of Forestry and Environment Studies, “Building of...
An exhibition that aims to raise relief funds for the victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake is now on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), 409 Prospect St.“Haiti Rising: Selections from the Stanley Popiel and Ingrid Feddersen Collection...
Coffee — after water, the most popular beverage on the planet — is the focus of an exhibition opening on Saturday, May 29, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.More than 500 billion cups of coffee are served worldwide each year, and the United...