From 2006 to 2013, director John Lucas followed the journeys of four men in prison and made a documentary film, “The Cooler Bandits,” about them.
Following a campus screening of “The Cooler Bandits,” Lucas and members of the film’s cast will take part in...
The ways in which artist Robert Rauschenberg and choreographer Paul Taylor were influenced by each other’s artistry will be explored in a talk by art historian Robert Mattison at the Yale University Art Gallery on Feb. 7.
The event, which will begin at 4...
While being honored March 8 by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with its eighth Visionary Leadership Award, poet Claudia Rankine described an encounter that she said is not all that uncommon for her. A white man approached to her to tell her...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...