Otto F. Ege, an Ohio-based scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half of the last century.Among the Ege acquisitions is this...
“What comes to mind when you think of spirituality?”
That one question, posed to 100 writers, artists, and scholars, resulted in a collection of more than 100 provocative essays — on topics ranging from iPhones to chicken sandwiches to Mohammad’s hair...
The Edith Wharton papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library contain about 50,000 items, including the author’s voluminous correspondence, drafts of her short stories and essays, and manuscripts of most her novels, including “The House of...
A new exhibition at the Yale School of Art (YSA) considers the intersection of artists-as-collectors through works in the private collection of photographer Jack Shear.“With Eyes Closed/With Eyes Wide Open,” organized by Robert Storr, professor of ...
Computing and the Arts is a young major by Yale standards. Developed in 2008, it moved with the Department of Computer Science to the School of Engineering and Applied Science last spring. While other universities have digital arts majors, they often fall...
Once a champion debater in high school, Yale senior Joshua Feinzig is well acquainted with the traditional rules and procedures in debate competitions.In a history seminar last year on “Politics and Culture of the U.S. Color Line,” however, Feinzig began...