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The auction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s in 1997.

The color of money

The interconnected histories of art, power, and finance

From Yale Insights

Chad Tanaka Pack

Building the future

A life of ‘sacramental imagination’: YDS alum Chad Tanaka Pack

From Divinity School

Michael Farina teaching

AI, teaching, and language learning

From Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Teresa Berger

A trailblazer in liturgical studies reflects on a life of spirituality and scholarship

From Yale Divinity School

Speed-walk through centuries of British art

Cyanotype of poppies

Otherworldly images produced by an early form of photography

Double-manual harpsichord by Allan Winkler

Historical performance

School of Music acquires new Winkler harpsichord

From School of Music

Two archeologists at dig site in Edfu, Egypt

Digging deep for new insights into ancient societies

Collage of Renaissance technical drawings and Morgan Ng

Art and engineering: The creative adaptation of technologies in Renaissance Italy

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; Daniel Weiss; Sam Linden; auction of da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s in 1997.

Strategic choices

The business behind the arts

From Yale Insights

"The Night Café,” by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh’s luminous late-night haunt

Alexis Joel speaks at podium

Making a Difference

Joel Foundation makes three-year commitment to support Yale Music in Schools initiative

From School of Music

Yale & New Haven

The Dwight/Edgewood Project celebrates 30 years of inspiring young playwrights

Rachel Heyse

Crossing Disciplines

Precision restoration: 3D imaging helps recreate artwork’s missing knob

Bust of Caligula

Ancient Pharmacology

Was Caligula a madman? Maybe. But he also knew his medicine, scholars find

Yale and Slavery book poster

Teaching and Learning

Yale announces 2025 launch of the Yale and Slavery Teachers Institute

From Gilder Lehrman Center

Martin Jean

Martin Jean reappointed as director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music

From Institute of Sacred Music

Artwork from 63 Audubon

Braided art, a new interdisciplinary certificate, and a space for local artists

Wen-tao Cheng

Wen-tao Cheng, celebrated Taiwanese poet and Yale faculty member

“The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” by John Trumbull

Painting the birth of American independence