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  • Babylon revisited

    A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum showcases Yale’s remarkable Babylonian Collection, which includes some of the oldest examples of written... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 17 2019 08:27am

  • Shattered

    One item in the student-curated exhibition of Yale’s collection of American glass at the Art Gallery is not like the others: it’s in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 11 2019 07:19am

  • Glass class

    American glass is the subject of a new Yale University Art Gallery exhibition curated by a team of six undergraduates. A Nation Reflected: Stories... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 2 2019 10:47am

  • Multimedia

    Now showing at the Art Gallery: a major work by Matthew Barney ’89 called Redoubt that includes a feature-length film, large sculptures... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 27 2019 10:12am

  • Sky scraper

    Sculptor Robert Engman ’55MFA, who was teaching at Yale during the construction of the Art & Architecture Building (now Paul Rudolph Hall)... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2019 02:24pm

  • Curtain call

    It’s audition season at the School of Drama, when aspiring actors try out for admission into next year’s class. Apparently, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 6 2019 08:34am

  • Comfy classic

    Those comfy chairs in the Haas Family Arts Library? They’re "Womb chairs” by architect Eero Saarinen ’34BFA, who designed them for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2019 10:44am

  • Art lovers

    Schoolchildren head for the Art Gallery just ahead of its 10 o’clock opening this morning. Unlike yesterday, when we got an inch and a half of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2019 10:22am

  • Works on paper

    The lobby of the Yale Art Gallery was packed on Friday for the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair. Small independent publishers and artist alumni of Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 10 2018 09:57am

  • Spooky symphony

    Costumed Yale Symphony Orchestra cellists get ready for one of Yale’s unique and popular Halloween traditions: the midnight symphony concert.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 1 2018 08:12am

  • Russians occupy Woolsey Hall

    Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus applauded their founding conductor, Denis Mickiewicz ’57MusB, ’67PhD (center), as they passed a bottle... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 15 2018 08:46am

  • Historic note

    Get your voice warmed up and sing a round of “Happy Birthday” to the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, which opened 20 years ago today.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2018 10:18am

  • Mooncake season

    The Yale Chinese American Students Association celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Branford common room last night, enjoying mooncakes filled... Read on
    Jordan Powell ’21 | September 27 2018 04:47pm

  • Robert Venturi, 1925–2018

    Robert Venturi died yesterday at the age of 93. The influential architect began to make a name for himself while teaching at Yale in the early 1960s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 20 2018 10:20am

  • Serpentine sound

    If you haven’t been to Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments on Hillhouse Avenue, make plans to stop by the next time you’re in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 19 2018 08:47am

  • Celebrating writers

    Poet and former Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84 gave the keynote address (“Why I Write”) yesterday in Sprague Hall to kick... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 13 2018 08:33am

  • Change of scenery

    Last week we showed you Alexander Calder’s sculpture Gallows and Lollipops being disassembled on Beinecke Plaza. Now the mobile has been... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 14 2018 08:10am

  • On the move

    Art handlers were on Beinecke Plaza this morning disassembling Alexander Calder’s sculpture Gallows and Lollipops. Amy Doyel of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 6 2018 10:42am

  • Making noise in the library

    Students and instructors from the Morse Summer Music Academy performed pop-up concerts at four locations around the city today, including this one... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2018 03:17pm