On a bright, cold day, standing before a sea of people that stretched to the horizon and witnessed by millions more watching on televisions around the world, Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander stepped up to the microphone and presented a gift of words to...
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” an exhibition examining the suburb as a catalyst for new work by artists and architects, will be on view March 2–May 10 at the Yale Architecture Gallery, Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York St.The American suburbs have been...
Window shoppers walking down Chapel Street’s retail row may pause at a display of plywood structures in the storefront of 978 Chapel St. and wonder: “What are joints like that doing in a place like this?”The “body-sized” sculptures, made up of differing...
Yale School of Architecture has selected five pioneering projects to receive the inaugural grants from the Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture.The $5 million endowment fund was set up in 2008 by Gerald D. Hines, founder and...
Yale’s Amistad Street Building has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its environmentally sustainable construction and features, the university has announced.In addition to its green design, the building includes state-of-the-art research facilities...
Curating contemporary art in an age of globalization will be the focus of a panel being presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Shifting Shapes—Unstable Signs,” the inaugural exhibition in the new Yale School of Art Gallery. Robert Storr, dean of...
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music have jointly appointed eminent Bach scholar and conductor Masaaki Suzuki as visiting professor of choral conducting and conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum, the University’s acclaimed chamber choir...
On March 24, the Yale School of Art will inaugurate a public lecture series with “Unbirthday Present,” a presentation by the renowned French installation- and video-artist Pierre Huyghe.The lecture begins at 8 p.m., in room 204 of the School of Art...
Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker has announced the alumni recipients of the first grants to advance the cause of music under the “alumniVentures” program.In the inaugural year of what Blocker hopes to be an annual program, alumniVentures received...
The 2009 Paul Mellon Lecture series, titled “Pen and Pencil: Writing and Painting in England, 1750–1850,” will be presented April 14–28, by Duncan Robinson, master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Yale Center...
