While developing his latest exhibition, “Redoubt,” renowned artist Matthew Barney ’89 B.A. came to Yale several times to explore the university’s collections and consult with faculty about his ideas for the multi-faceted project that explores themes as...
A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
Yale University today announced the 2019 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their work.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, ...
A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It is not a case of curatorial malpractice — far from it. Those exposed fore edges form a gallery...
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...
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-...