Arts & Humanities

Yale for Life brings alumni back to Yale for intellectual experiences through classes like “The Dark Arts of Civilization” and “Histories of the Self.”

Laurence Kanter, chief curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art (Yale University Press)

“Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio,” on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through Oct. 7, examines Leonardo’s early career in Florence.

Artists Byron Kim ’83 and Lisa Sigal M.F.A. ’90 have been appointed co-directors of the undergraduate summer art residency for summer of 2019.

Laub, one of the founders of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, died on June 23 in Woodbridge, Connecticut. He was 81.

At the invitation of the U.S. government, Eckart Frahm recently got the chance to examine ancient cuneiform tablets recovered after looting in southern Iraq.

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s ministry, “Inspire: The Church in the 21st Century” was a three-day exploration of progressive Christianity in America.

The Beinecke Library will mark the 242nd anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of a major document of U.S. history from its collections.

“The Early Modern Pharmacy: Drugs, Recipes, and Apothecaries, 1500-1800” is on display through July 5 at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

Robert Harms, the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History (W.W. Norton & Company)