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  • 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

  • Stage door

    Since 1966, Yale Repertory Theatre has introduced hundreds of important plays, many of which have gone on to Broadway. What Yale Rep productions... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 16 2018 09:01am

  • We do declare

    On display through next Wednesday at the Beinecke Library: one of 26 known copies of the Dunlap Broadside, the first printing of the Declaration of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2018 10:16am

  • I just adore a penthouse view

    The penthouse of Paul Rudolph Hall, née the Art & Architecture Building, has been a guest suite for visiting professors and a café... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2018 09:24am

  • Farewell to furniture

    After decades in the basement of 149 York Street, the Yale University Art Gallery’s furniture study is moving to the West Campus. (As their... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 8 2018 01:37pm

  • Still not tired

    Samuel Johnson said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Some of us feel the same way about the Yale Center for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 6 2018 08:42am