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Blue: Color and Concept

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
(203) 432-2977
beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/blue-color-and-concept

Disparate objects that feature the color blue—from Langston Hughes’s cigarette case and Edith Wharton’s Paris driver’s permit to blueprints, poetry, and American popular music—come together in a cultural history of the color in arts and letters.

Through April 19

 

Byobu: The Grandeur of Japanese Screens

Yale University Art Gallery
(203) 432-0600
artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/byobu-grandeur-japanese-screens

A comprehensive exploration of Japanese folding screens, or byobu, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries presents works in three successive installations.

Through July 6

 

Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion

Institute of Sacred Music
(203) 432-5062
ism.yale.edu/event/yale-schola-cantorum-and-juilliard415-bachs-st-john-passion

Yale Schola Cantorum teams with Juilliard415 to present Bach’s setting of the St. John Passion in Woolsey Hall. A pre-concert talk by Markus Rathey and an afternoon symposium provide wider cultural and religious context.

Saturday, April 5, 8:00 pm

 

A Cure for What Ails You: Songs from the Medical Library’s Sheet Music Collection

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
(203) 737-1192
library.yale.edu/librarynews/2014/01/a_cure_for_what_ails_you_songs.html

A new collection of medically themed sheet music includes works for the music halls of Europe, early American musicals, and vaudeville; and modern radio, movie, and television theme songs.

Through May 2

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