When John Stuart Gordon was writing his new catalog of Yale’s American glass collections, he was asked whether he planned to mount a related exhibition.
Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale...
The work of an art conservator requires patience, concentration, and the willingness to spend extended periods of time absorbed in a delicate task, said Mark Aronson, chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA).
“More often than not,...
A historic ledger book on display at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library documents two milestones of Yale history in elegant copperplate script: the founding of the Yale School of Art and the first women admitted as students anywhere at Yale.
It...
Two wool blankets of vivid purple, red, green, and blue stretch like enormous wings across a wall at the Yale University Art Gallery. They are dotted with brightly stitched flying objects: hawks, herons, fighter jets, hot-air balloons, UFOs, even the...
While a crewmember on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit indulged his passion for photography.
Between 13-hour shifts performing maintenance work on the station and conducting experiments, Pettit pointed cameras out the station’...
For 50 years, Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) archive has collected and preserved in-depth interviews with composers and musicians who have shaped America’s musical landscape.
The archive’s more than 3,000 audio and video recordings —...
As a speechwriter for President George W. Bush ’68 B.A. from 2006 to 2009, Jonathan Horn ’04 B.A. gained rare insight into the exercise of presidential power.
Horn’s White House experience yielded valuable perspective for his new book, “Washington’s End:...
As White House bureau chief for The Washington Post, journalist Philip Rucker ’06 B.A. helps write the first draft of history amid the chaos of the perpetual news cycle.
In a new book, “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America” (Penguin...