Yale Repertory Theatre will celebrate Yale University’s 300th birthday by presenting a 300-year-old comic masterpiece, William Congreve’s “The Way of the World,” directed by Stan Wojewodski, Jr., artistic director and dean of the Yale Drama School....
Yale University has chosen internationally renowned architects David M. Childs and Richard Meier to design two projects for its expanding arts area complex. Renovations to 180 York Street, a building designed by Paul Rudolph for the Art and Architecture...
Paul Lawrence, former director of media production and training services at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, was named director of the Center for Media Initiatives (CMI) at Yale University, effective December 1, 2000. Among other projects,...
Several noted Irish directors and actors will participate in a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will include panels,...
Acclaimed writer and advocate for the Haitian-American community Edwidge Danticat will visit the Yale campus and give a reading from her works on February 6 and 7. Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1969, Danticat came to the United States in 1981. Two...
An exhibition of paintings by David Gelernter is on view at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street, now through March 23. The art, primarily a mix of acrylic and pastel or watercolor and pastel, occasionally employs liquid iron, metal...
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine Weinmann, a Jewish citizen who left Germany before...
Yale University will host a symposium on issues in contemporary Irish film, February 1-4, in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will feature panels, lectures and discussions with 21 prominent...
Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the American Historical Association’s J. Franklin Jameson Award for her three-volume tour de force, “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of...
Edmund S. Morgan, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a leading scholar of American colonial history, was among 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal for 2000. Cited on the certificate he received at the award ceremony on Dec...