When Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday, the millions in attendance or tuning in on TV and radio will hear music written for the occasion by Julian Darius Revie, ‘02, composer in residence at Yale’s Saint Thomas More Chapel.His piece...
Faculty and students of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) recently presented their work and shared their ideas during the opening week of the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image — an international conference in Frankfurt, Germany, that...
Susan Ernst says she feels closest to God while spending time in nature.
“When I say nature, I don’t mean the wilderness,” said Ernst, a horticulturist and artist, while seated in the barn at the Yale Landscape Lab. “Right here is nature. I grew up in...
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...