Two of America’s most celebrated composers are among the six new faculty appointments at the Yale School of Music (YSM), according to its dean, Robert Blocker.The new appointments are for the 2008-2009 academic year.The composers are David Lang, a recent...
“Passion Play,” an epic trilogy of plays performed in one evening and the Yale Repertory Theatre’s first production of the 2008-2009 season, will be staged Sept. 19-Oct. 11.The play is by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, whose works “The Clean House”...
A reading of the play “Grenadine,” the winner of the 2008 Yale Drama Series Award, will take place on Monday, Sept. 15, at the New Theater, 1156 Chapel St.The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Admission to the event is free, but reservations to ensure...
This fall the Yale Center for British Art will serve as the first and only venue for a small exhibition about a late 18th-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists and sheds light on a number of technical and historical issues.“Benjamin...
In celebration of Yale University’s world-renowned architectural heritage, the Yale Visitor Center will host two historic preservation walking tours on campus in September. Both tours are free and open to the public. The first, on Saturday, September 20,...
Works by two Yale-affiliated artists — one a Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty member and the other a staff member at the School of Drama — will be featured in the exhibition “Piecing It Together: Collages by Donald Margulies and Deborah Berman.” The show...
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design the two new residential colleges of Yale College, President Richard C. Levin has announced. The new colleges will expand the average undergraduate population of 5,250 by 15 percent, to approximately...
Works by Josef Albers, considered one of the most influential artist-educators of the 20th century, will be on exhibit at The Gallery at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, September 3 to October 29. Works by Josef Albers, considered one of the...
Members of the public are once again invited to explore the University’s world-class art collections while enjoying the sound of music during the Yale Art Museums’ Open House, being held 5:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 4.The annual event, now in its fourth...
In recognition of his unrivaled achievements as educator, scholar, author and architect, Robert A.M. Stern will be awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum during a two-day celebration in November. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of...