When John Stuart Gordon was writing his new catalog of Yale’s American glass collections, he was asked whether he planned to mount a related exhibition.
Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale...
Hangama Amiri ’20 M.F.A. was a first grader in 1996 when her family escaped Taliban oppression in Afghanistan. They lived as refugees in Pakistan, and later Tajikistan, before immigrating to Canada in 2005, settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A painter...
As dean of the Yale School of Art, Robert Storr was a regular presence in the school’s studios and classrooms, teaching the fundamentals of painting and drawing every semester while also conducting graduate seminars and participating in critiques of...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 35 new colleagues this academic year — a group of world-class researchers and teachers whose work is expanding the horizons of a range of fields, including African American studies, mathematics,...
A new exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) — “On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale” — grabs visitors’ attention the moment the elevator doors open onto the museum’s fourth floor.
Immediately, “The Rest of Her Remains” by Nigerian-...
The lights dim in the screening room on Sterling Memorial Library’s seventh floor, the new home of the Yale Film Archive. A projector whirs. Eight undergraduates watch five short, animated films in their original 16 mm format. Then they don plastic...
Kymberly Pinder ’95 Ph.D., an internationally recognized scholar of race, representation, and murals, has been appointed the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, President Peter Salovey announced June 1 in a message to the...
In September 2015, Deborah Berke was named dean of the Yale School of Architecture, becoming the first woman to lead the world-renowned institution.
As dean, Berke has led efforts to expand financial aid, established programs examining issues concerning...
On Oct. 29, 2012, a storm surge from Hurricane Sandy swamped the South End of Bridgeport, Connecticut, inundating the city’s low-lying neighborhoods. Just one year earlier, Tropical Storm Irene flooded the same area, damaging homes, businesses, and public...
Hilton Als, the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and chief theater critic for The New Yorker, was sick in bed recently as protestors marched through the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood demanding racial justice. Sirens blended with the...