The North American Dreaming Depot Pigeon, an irascible species that longs to drive buses and inhabits the picture books of best-selling author and illustrator Mo Willems, is nesting in a glass exhibition case at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript...
Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
Martin Luther sits at a table surrounded by other leaders of the Reformation. A Bible is opened in front of him. A candle burns at the table’s center.
The scene is depicted in a 17th-century painting that for years has graced a hallway at Yale Divinity...
Visitors to the Yale University Art Gallery ponder and enjoy the more than 4,000 works on display, but as is the case at many museums, the objects on view represent a small portion of the gallery’s holdings.
Out of necessity, tens of thousands of art...
When Jack Wesson’s girlfriend was unable to visit her family over fall break last semester, he knew how to give her an enchanting glimpse of home.
Wesson brought her to the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM) — an interdisciplinary research...
Hito Steyerl, an internationally renowned filmmaker and writer, opened a Feb. 21 lecture at the Yale School of Art (YSA) with an image of “Salvator Mundi,” an oil painting of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that sold at auction in November for $450...
A small late 15th-century oil painting portrays two kneeling men facing each other. The figures are framed together, but their quality is worlds apart.
The man on the left appears slightly off-kilter. The positioning of his legs is difficult to discern...
In December 1831, French caricaturist Honoré Daumier was persecuted for producing “Gargantua,” a satirical lithograph he made mocking corruption and profligacy in the government of King Louis-Philippe I.
The lithograph depicts the king as Gargantua,...
In ancient Egypt, rituals honoring the goddess Hathor could be noisy affairs. Worshippers shook sistrums — rattle instruments — to mimic the sound of the solar deity moving through rushes and grass as she strode to her temple.
A dazzlingly blue sistrum...