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  • 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

  • Into each fling . . .

    Yalies braved pouring rain yesterday to celebrate the first Spring Fling since 2019. On the stage this year were Aminé, Sofi Tukker, Masego... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 3 2022 08:45am

  • Olmsted’s 200th

    Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, known for Central Park (pictured), Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and so much more, was born 200 years... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 26 2022 09:47am

  • Colorful canvas

    The Center for British Art is now open to the public again on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On display through July 24: a major exhibition of works... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2022 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: long-running

    We featured James Bundy ’95MFA on our March 2002 cover, when he was just starting out as dean of what is now the David Geffen School of Drama.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2022 08:17am

  • Mystery Monday: sight reading

    So much to solve on this Mystery Monday: where on campus is this carving? What is the musical notation? And what does that highly stylized lettering... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 7 2022 08:10am

  • Through a shade, darkly

    The Yale University Art Gallery is open to the public again. We visited the other day and caught this accidentally Impressionist view of campus... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 4 2022 08:44am

  • Larger than life

    Black History Month begins today! The Beinecke Library has 14 color portraits of Black cultural figures by Carl Van Vechten from its James Weldon... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 1 2022 08:14am

  • The show goes on

    Omicron willing, the Yale Repertory Theatre will be back later this month with a three-play spring season after being dark for nearly two years.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 4 2022 09:11am

  • Birthday present

    New on the side of the Asian American Cultural Center on Crown Street: a mural called Finding Home by Los Angeles artist Lauren YoungSmith. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 30 2021 08:05am

  • 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

  • Eighty years of women in architecture

    On display in Paul Rudolph Hall through December 10, “Rooms: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Women Alums, 1942–” features... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 21 2021 08:00am

  • Artistic alumnae

    Up through January 9 at the Yale University Art Gallery: On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale. The exhibition features nearly 80 women... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2021 08:26am

  • 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

  • Climbing plants

    In New Haven’s Temple Plaza, artist Bu Lei Tu has adorned the stairs that lead to College Street with a mural that features 14 plants native... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2021 08:32am

  • 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