“Beauty is in the Street” declares a poster of a young woman, rendered in red against a white backdrop, hurling a brick into the air.
The eight recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes will come to the Yale campus next week for a four-day literary festival to celebrate reading and the written word with the local community.
The annual festival, which begins Sept. 19,...
In late 2008, author Cynthia Ozick received a letter from author John Updike, who reported having pneumonia.
“I returned from Russia with sniffles that wouldn’t go away and now we have unleashed all the diagnostic hounds of Mass. General Hospital,” wrote...
Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture.
It was an ongoing discussion among artistic and intellectual heavyweights. Key...
Sarah Victoria Turner, an art historian and curator who specializes in the cultural relationships between Britain and India, has been appointed director of Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a London-based educational charity and...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
Igor Stravinsky’s seminal ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” famously caused an uproar when it debuted in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky’s dissonant score and Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography struck a nerve and even provoked rioting in the Paris streets....
Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives contain vast troves of cultural and scientific heritage that fire curiosity and fuel research worldwide. Now there’s a simple new way to make astonishing connections among millions of objects.
Starting...
For centuries, “The Wonders of Things Created and Rarities of Matters Existent,” a seminal work of natural history and cosmology by 13th-century Persian scholar and judge Zakariyya Qazwini, has taken its readers on a journey into the mysteries and...
Bias Stanley, a prominent New Haven resident and first deacon and treasurer of the Temple Street Congregational Church, died on Aug. 26, 1854. His exact age was unknown.
Although there are five draft inscriptions for his tomb preserved in a small...