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  • House museum

    The Yale University Art Gallery is known for its collection of American decorative arts, but the university also has a kind of open-air museum of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2019 10:13am

  • Creepy crawly

    Some guerrilla artists found an irresistible canvas in the pipe that emerges from the sidewalk on Whitney Avenue over the Farmington Canal line. A... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 29 2019 08:31am

  • Sitting pretty

    The School of Architecture’s annual exhibition of student work includes these projects from a class called, appropriately enough, The Chair.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2019 10:24am

  • True colors

    Center for British Art architect Louis Kahn once said of the building, "On a gray day it will look like a moth, on a sunny day like a butterfly."... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2019 01:25pm

  • Through Whitman’s eyes

    Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. The Beinecke Library is marking the occasion with a pop-up exhibit of letters... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 30 2019 08:01am

  • Doesn't look a day over 400

    “To me, fair friend, you never can be old  /  For as you were when first your eye I eyed  /  Such seems your beauty... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2019 08:47am

  • 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