The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St., is rolling out the red carpet on October 23–24 for the 40th birthday of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” the classic movie that teamed American cinema icons Paul Newman and Robert Redford in...
Love becomes uncontrollable and monstrous in the School of Drama’s next production, Jean Racine’s dramatic tragedy “Phédre.”The play runs Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 27-31, at the University Theatre, 222 York St. It will be directed by third-year drama student...
A group of women struggle to navigate the brutalities of the civil war in Liberia in “Eclipsed,” the second play in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2009-2010 season.Written by Obie Award-winning playwright Danai Gurira, “Eclipsed” is directed by Liesl Tommy...
“I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill,” declared Horace Walpole in January 1750.That villa and the wide-ranging collections it once housed are the focus of “Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill,” a new exhibit on view through Jan. 3...
Works by contemporary artists that challenge conceptions of time and inspire viewers to think about the artistic process are featured in “Continuous Present,” the latest exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.The exhibit features a selection of...
The students who are studying visual biography this semester with School of Art senior critic Jessica Helfand refer to themselves as “Jessica’s Girls,” a twist on a 1980s pop song called “Jessie’s Girl.”There are only six of them, but these women have the...
“Each year the houses get better and better, and I mean that in all sincerity,” said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, at the dedication of the 2009 house designed and built by the school’s first-year students in the Hill neighborhood of...
American and European émigré artists renowned for their contributions to intaglio printmaking in the years following World War II are featured in an exhibition opening Sept. 25 at the Yale University Art Gallery.“The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American...
At the age of 72, Mary Delaney began working on a series of 1,000 botanical collages, or “paper mosaics,” made from hundreds of tiny pieces of hand-cut paper. These delicate designs — said to rival the finest botanical works of her time — are among the...
A successful architect must face the costs of his ambition in “The Master Builder,” the opening play in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2009-2010 season.The drama by Henrik Ibsen will be staged Sept. 18-Oct. 10 in the University Theatre, 222 York St. Evan ...