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  • 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

  • Winning entry

    In conjunction with a School of Architecture seminar called “1968 @ 50: Architecture, Art and Cultures of Resistance Around the Globe,”... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 11 2018 09:17am

  • Better call Sol

    Seven Sol Lewitt wall drawings are on display at the Yale University Art Gallery through January 27. Yale owns a large number of the late conceptual... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 11 2018 10:29am

  • The coolest month

    April is a time to take your sketch pad outside, as Robert Storr’s Basic Drawing class demonstrated on the Green yesterday—even if you... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 10 2018 08:59am

  • Musical queue

    Besides accommodating Yale’s largest indoor concerts, lectures, and ceremonies, Woolsey Hall is also the longtime home of the New Haven... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 3 2018 10:25am

  • Up on the roof

    As part of an exhibition of works by sculptor Joel Shapiro, on view at the Art Gallery through June 10, two of Shapiro’s bronzes have been... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 28 2018 08:40am

  • We came, we didn’t see, we settled

    We had the bright idea to post a photo of a bust of Julius Caesar today for the Ides of March, but it turns out that the Art Gallery’s display... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 15 2018 08:52am