Yale’s historic and architecturally distinctive campus will be the venue for an assortment of walking tours during the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.These tours, scheduled almost every day of the festival, have been organized by the Yale...
The screening of a documentary about artist Tom Luckey will be the first of more than a dozen free and public events — including exhibitions, lectures and symposia — at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) this fall.With the exception of the dedication...
Art conservators, like medical doctors, are governed by the principle “First, do no harm,” and they go about their task of preserving art and artifacts using delicacy and cautionBut for museum conservators, the boundary between harming and healing a work...
Exhibitions showcasing the latest innovations in green residential architecture and the groundbreaking Las Vegas Studio of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in addition to the work of their firm will be on view at the gallery of the newly renovated...
The latest innovations in “green” residential architecture are showcased in the School of Architecture’s first exhibition of the new academic year.“The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture” draws on designs of internationally celebrated...
Yale College Dean Mary Miller has announced the appointment of Susan E. Cahan as the first Associate Dean for the Arts in Yale College.Cahan most recently served as associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the...
The Chubb Fellowship at Yale University and the Departments of History of Art and African American Studies will host a symposium, “Flash of a Spirit,” celebrating the work of Yale Professor Robert Farris Thompson, on September 12, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.The...
A $64,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Program for Museums and Art Conservation will enable Yale to conduct a survey of hundreds of collections of photographs dispersed throughout the University and to create a directory of its vast...
A dedication of the house that first-year students at Yale School of Architecture designed and built themselves will take place at the building site, 16 King Place (between Washington Avenue and Truman Street), on September 24 at 5:30 p.m.Since it was...
“Each year the houses get better and better, and I mean that in all sincerity,” said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, at the dedication of the 2009 house designed and built by the school’s first-year students in the Hill neighborhood of...