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...
In the painting, a doll-like figure dressed in ruffles and jewels, wearing heavy rouge, and carrying a bloodied knife, stares with piercing green eyes into the abyss. Nude dancing women surround him, neon-colored grass at their feet. Behind them, a figure...
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.
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Stephanie Wiles, who has expertly led the Yale University Art Gallery for the past five years, has been reappointed to a second term as the Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale President Peter Salovey announced today.
During her first term as director, Wiles...
Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...