Diana Mellon
Diana Mellon
Recent Stories
End of boundaries
“The ways people talk about art are not as complicated as the way we live our lives,” Jaret Vadera ART ’09 tells me. A neon pink tube curled into the word “poser” in cursive fluoresces pertly above his head. It is the only work of art on a long white gallery wall that faces the path between the recently completed sculpture building and Edgewood Avenue.
Off-campus music: SLRAS goes beyond ‘Blood Diamond’
“Every instrument comes out of the mind of man,” said Reuben M. Koroma, band leader of Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, “…like a heartbeat.” On their debut album, “Living Like a Refugee,” the band’s singers use their voices to imitate inhuman sounds, too — like goopy soap suds (“Soda Soap”) or a vibrating guitar string (“Living Like a Refugee”). In the title track and others, SLRAS incorporates the sound of hand-held shakers, chirping crickets, laughing children and
Art stars
Fame and fortune at the Yale School of Art
Given its role as a puppy mill of art stars, and its proximity to the New York gallery world, one wonders whether Yale’s tradition of fame has spoiled artistic innovation with promises of success. Intellectual potential, it seems, has overcome the financial temptation of a market-driven aesthetic.
Art stars: Fame and fortune at the Yale School of Art
Behind Green Hall lies the nucleus of the Yale School of Art, 353 Crown St. Beyond a candy-colored spectrum of vintage bicycles, and through a double meniscus of glass doors, a gallery overlooks The Pit — the painter’s equivalent of a gladiator’s arena.