Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:42 p.m.
ArtParlor is not a new café on Chapel Street, nor is it one of the paint-on-pottery places that we loved to visit as children. ArtParlor, or rather www.yale.edu/artparlor, is a new Web site that is working to create a community for artists and art enthusiasts both online and on campus.
“Sorry,” Tim Crouch looked into my eyes and said quietly as he pushed past into another room of Turners to continue his poetic and provocative two-person performance piece, “England,” at the BAC on Tuesday night. “Sorry”?!!?! I was amazed. Never have I been treated with such kindness and respect by a performance artist: not ignored or blamed or yelled at, but rather seen,...
Before visiting “Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox” at the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday, my experience with watercolor painting was limited to the blurry, translucent medium of my elementary school art classes. Luckily, unlike the soggy creations of my youth, David Cox’s paintings display an absolute mastery of watercolor technique.
My morning at the press preview of “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography” was like something out of an episode of “Gossip Girl.”
A gilt Mozartkugeln chocolate wrapper, a Tiger Balm ointment label and a yellow Chinese newspaper clipping do not immediately appear to be meaningful, or art. The collages of Deborah Berman and Donald Margulies create art from seemingly meaningless juxtapositions and give layers of meaning to layers of paper.
The same friend who introduced me to David Foster Wallace once mused that one way to appreciate an artistic work was to realize all the ways it could have been stupid but managed not to be. To my mind, DFW is an important example of how a writer, and specifically a writer from our own academic and cultural milieu, can avoid the particular pitfalls that we here are likely...
A small new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art explores an 18th century art embarrassment.
After over 20 years of traveling the jungles of South America, noted nature photographer Frans Lanting brings his photography to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
A devoted fan who had taken 10 or so years off from listening to Dar Williams would probably be disappointed by her newest album.
You walk through the entrance of the Whitney Humanities Center, you make a right into a virtually empty corridor, and you ask the friendly receptionist where the fine arts exhibit is taking place.
“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian,” a collection of large-format woodcut prints from the late 15th century through the 1630s, brings works together in a way that is both magnificent and informative. Backed by gray walls that underscore the prints’ blacks and whites, and arranged chronologically by year, the collection highlights developments...
Just around the corner from Old Campus, a Hawaiian paradise awaits students looking for refuge from a rainy afternoon.
Two student-curated exhibits on display at the Yale University Art Gallery until Sunday both feature photography, but that’s the extent of their similarities.
The Yale Drama Coalition, the student-founded and -run umbrella organization for all theatrical groups on campus, hosted its annual Fall Preview meeting this past week.
In the entrance court of the Yale Center for British Art, three monks garbed in white, heavy drapery fabric and white wig caps each carry a square plastic tub of 180 individually wrapped Twizzlers.
We are accustomed today to seeing copies of color images: posters of Jessica Alba or The Strokes on our dorm-room walls, images in books and magazines and the annoying little handouts we are given outside Cutler’s.
It is peculiar that the most popular study space at Yale — a university so revered for its architecture — is a basement. The two underground levels of Bass Library, however, are sumptuously decorated, equaling in material beauty the interiors of Yale’s other recently renovated buildings.
