Legendary songwriter, artist and activist, Patti Smith will be at Yale for two separate evening events sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center: On Nov. 3, she will introduce a screening of the film “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” (2008). Following the...
The Yale and Whiffenpoof Alumni Associations announce the a cappella all-star line up for the first annual “Ivy Light: Sing Out, Raise Hope, Eliminate Pediatric AIDS,” a benefit concert for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, to be held on...
The records of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects have been donated to the Yale University Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives by Bette-Ann Gwathmey, the widow of founding partner Charles Gwathmey who received his degree in...
Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A. M. Stern (M.Arch. ‘65), whose influential designs have been credited with revitalizing traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture....
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
From its earliest days as a group of 13 men from the Class of 1863 to its current incarnation as an 80-voice chorus of men and women, the Yale Glee Club has been performing for audiences throughout the nation and around the world.Now, to mark its century-...
Genre-defying American poet and critic Susan Howe has been named the 2011 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.Announcing the poet’s selection for the Bollingen Prize, the judges wrote, “In more than three decades of writing,...
There will be a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “B-Minor Mass” by the renowned Bach Collegium Japan on Saturday, March 26, to benefit Yale’s relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in Japan.Conducted by the founder of the Collegium, Masaaki...
Renowned British historian Sir David Cannadine will give a lecture on the artistic pursuits of Winston Churchill at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, on Thursday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m.Cannadine’s lecture, titled “Painting as a Pastime...
World-renowned conductor Masaaki Suzuki will conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum and an orchestra composed of Baroque ensembles from Yale and Juilliard, in a free performance of J.S. Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion on May 6.The performance marks the...