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  • Dear sir or madam, will you read my book?

    Yale grandparent and honorary doctor of music Sir Paul McCartney appeared before a full house in Woolsey Hall last night to promote his new book... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 17 2023 08:20am

  • Old and older

    The 569-year-old Gutenberg Bible at the Beinecke Library is always a highlight of Yale tours. But the oldest surviving book printed with movable... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 8 2023 09:29am

  • The Black songwriters behind "Boola"

    This Black History Month, let's not forget that two African American men wrote the song that was altered slightly to become "Boola Boola." Bob Cole... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2023 08:00am

  • Putting poetry together

    Ada Limón, the 24th United States Poet Laureate, spoke in the Art Gallery lecture hall on Wednesday. Limón read ten poems from her... Read on
    Michael Paz ’25 | February 3 2023 08:00am

  • Closing time

    If you're a fan of the Yale Center for British Art, this might be a good time for a visit. The museum will be closing on February 27 for a year-long... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2023 08:00am

  • Remembering COVID

    Now hanging inside the entrance to the School of Medicine's Boardman Building: a mixed-media painting by School of Art graduate Ye Qin Zhu... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 10 2023 08:00am

  • Memories of Minerva

    We’re looking into the long and complicated history of the statue of Minerva that presides over the fourth-floor architecture studios in Paul... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 4 2022 08:00am

  • Floor show

    Richard Long’s Quantock Wood Circle, on display at the Center for British Art through February 19, consists of 285 pine branches... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 4 2022 08:00am

  • Conspicuously absent

    When you walk this campus frequently, sometimes you’re surprised by what you don’t see. That includes the Alexander Calder sculpture... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2022 08:46am

  • Ceremonial

    On view at the Art Gallery through January 8: the first exhibition devoted to Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2022 08:00am

  • Next chapter

    Grace Hopper College held an open house yesterday to introduce 12 new stained glass panels in its common room an dining hall. The new windows... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 13 2022 08:00am

  • Brutally honest

    On display through December 10 at Paul Rudolph Hall: SOS Brutalism, a German exhibition inspired by the project of the same name that advocates... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 7 2022 10:21am

  • Incredible hulks

    Where better than at Yale’s own “concrete monster” to mount an exhibition about the preservation of brutalist architecture? SOS... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2022 08:00am

  • Have instruments, will travel

    One of the things we love about July at Yale is seeing the students of the Morse Summer Music Academy traversing the campus. Musicians in the New... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 26 2022 08:35am

  • Throwback Thursday: arrival of the lipstick

    In our June 1969 issue, we documented the arrival of Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, by the late Claes Oldenburg ’50, in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2022 10:10am

  • Claes Oldenburg '50

    Sculptor Claes Oldenburg ’50 died on Monday at age 93. Known around the world for his “colossal monuments,” he is best remembered at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 20 2022 08:06am

  • A taste of things to come

    Yale Hospitality tried out ten new menu items on a focus group of university employees today in Commons. Shown here: local yellow corn johnny cakes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 13 2022 01:20pm

  • These truths

    On view at the Beinecke Library through July 17: the library's copy of the rare Dunlap broadside, the first printing of the Declaration of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 30 2022 08:00am

  • Page turner

    Summer reading season is here! What’s on your list this year? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 1 2022 08:15am