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  • Coming to a point

    New in the Art Gallery sculpture garden: Monument (Pyramid) by Maren Hassinger. The pyramid consists of a metal frame covered in buckthorn... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 28 2024 03:58am

  • Remembering Richard Serra

    Richard Serra ’64MFA, whom the New York Times called “one of his era’s greatest sculptors,” died on Tuesday at 85. In... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 29 2024 01:33am

  • Art al fresco

    A foggy day—or any day, really—is a good day to enjoy the sculpture terrace at the Art Gallery. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2024 08:34am

  • Mystery Monday: tools of the trade

    There is a wealth of outdoor sculpture on Yale’s campus. Where can you find this piece that features bronze casts of common hand tools? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2024 08:41am

  • A doctor's legacy

    On Wednesday, the School of Medicine unveiled a bust of Yan Fuqing, who was the first Asian to earn a doctorate from the school in 1909. Yan... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 27 2023 05:23am

  • Wooooooolsey . . .

    We're not sure if the cobwebs attached to the Theodore Dwight Woolsey statue on Old Campus are extremely well-executed Halloween decorations or just... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 24 2023 12:00am

  • 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

  • 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

  • Blue yonder

    In New England, there’s no sky like a September sky. Even Roy Lichtenstein’s Modern Head is impressed. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2021 08:21am

  • Mobile, home

    After a three-year sabbatical in the Art Gallery sculpture garden, the Alexander Calder sculpture Gallows and Lollipops is back in its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 14 2021 07:54am

  • Secrets revealed!

    Last month, we showed you this sculpture that had appeared outside the tomb of Book and Snake, but we didn’t have any details about it. Since... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 12 2021 08:23am

  • Mystery Monday: where's Mahasthama?

    Surely some of you have encountered this limestone head of Mahasthama, a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, somewhere on campus. But do you remember... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 2 2021 08:24am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Secret sculpture

    A piece of public art has appeared outside the private tomb of the senior society Book and Snake. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we have no further details. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2021 08:56am

  • Mystery Monday: snowy sculpture

    This piece by an American artist used to be in the Art Gallery’s sculpture garden, but now it's outside Street Hall facing Chapel Street. Who... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 21 2020 07:54am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Mystery Monday: found art

    We’ve been told that this sculpture near the campus was made from pieces of Yale’s old printing press at 149 York Street. Can anyone... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 23 2020 08:10am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Recycled

    Yale’s nuclear particle accelerator was removed in 2015, but a piece of it remains in front of its former home, Wright Laboratory. Artist... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2020 07:52am

  • Painting by numbers

    We spotted Natalie Karas, a conservator with the firm Materials Conservation, working on Maya Lin’s sculpture The Women’s Table on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 30 2019 07:54am

  • Great divider

    On view through November 16 at the School of Architecture gallery: an exhibit of the work of sculptor Erwin Hauer (1926–2017) who taught at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 5 2019 10:39am