Paintings by some of the leading artists of the Victorian period - all collected by entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway as an educational tool for college women - are featured in a new exhibition opening May 7 at the Yale Center for British...
Three works by graduating playwrights at the Yale School of Drama will be staged May 8-17 during the fourth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays.There will be 12 performances of the plays - “American Catnip” by Mattie Brickman, “The Bedtrick” by Matt...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Titled “Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans 1939-1964,” the...
Academy award-winning actress and Yale alumna Jodie Foster will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 29, when she will be honored by the University’s Film Studies Program and take part in a conversation with members of the Yale community.The conversation...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
The art of ketubah — the marriage contract Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day — is featured in a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library.The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
Yale University has completed construction of a new ultra-green building—designed to use 50 percent less energy than a comparably sized modern building—for its School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). Kroon Hall achieves its remarkable...
Yale University will open two buildings central to its music programs, Gustave Stoeckel Hall and Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall, to the public on April 18 at 2 p.m. for a tour that will highlight recent architectural renovations and enhancements.Both...