From 2006 to 2013, director John Lucas followed the journeys of four men in prison and made a documentary film, “The Cooler Bandits,” about them.
Following a campus screening of “The Cooler Bandits,” Lucas and members of the film’s cast will take part in...
Four Yale alumni — Michael Apuzzo ’05, Sidra Bell ’01, Emily Coates ’06, and Brian Seibert ’97 — will discuss their diverse career paths in the dance world on Monday, Jan. 22, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, 149 York St.
The...
The ways in which artist Robert Rauschenberg and choreographer Paul Taylor were influenced by each other’s artistry will be explored in a talk by art historian Robert Mattison at the Yale University Art Gallery on Feb. 7.
The event, which will begin at 4...
Grammy Ward-winning saxophonist and Yale faculty member Wayne Escoffery will be featured in a free concert with the Yale Jazz Ensemble on Monday, Feb. 26.
The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will take place in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial...
While being honored March 8 by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with its eighth Visionary Leadership Award, poet Claudia Rankine described an encounter that she said is not all that uncommon for her. A white man approached to her to tell her...
A bluegrass mandolin concerto, the world premiere of a new piece with the Fair Haven Middle School Band, and a special performance by the Yale Handbell Ensemble will highlight the Yale Concert Band’s spring concert on Friday, April 13.
The concert will...
For over a month, students, fellows, and staff members in Timothy Dwight College (TD) have enjoyed peering up toward the dining hall ceiling to look at two brightly colored quilts. Some even feel a little bit like they are being “watched over” by someone...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
If it weren’t for the fact that one weekend of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) is taking place on Yale’s West Campus, Yale staff member Andrea Miller might not be making new art.
Miller spent much of her adult life working full-time as a fiber...