Maulik Pancholy DRA ’03: “Whitney” star, “Weeds” enthusiast, never went to Toad’s
Actor Maulik Pancholy DRA ’03 is best known for his roles as Jonathan, the uptight assistant to NBC exec Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) on “30 Rock”, and the drug-dealing dweeb Sanjay Patel on the comedy series “Weeds.”
UP CLOSE | Galleries plan for future
Yale’s art museums are two of Louis Kahn’s best-recognized designs and key works in the history of modernist architecture.
Art history hires two
As the History of Art Department’s non-Western requirements came under fire earlier this semester, the department is making an effort to emphasize a more globalized approach to the study of art.
Government photos take new form online
With the help of Yale students and faculty, Depression era government photographs are gaining new accessibility, 20th-century style.
Classless Chaps
In college, breakfast eaten out is the domain of Parents’ Weekend and hungover Sundays when you cannot withstand the dining hall’s babbling masses.
Curating 9/11
On September 1, a new show opened without fanfare in a hallway off the lobby of the Yale University Art Gallery. A second exhibit quietly launched less than a week later, in the lower level of the Haas Family Arts Library, framed by library stacks and tables of working students.
#Mysummervacation or, how to tweet your way to the top
Take it for granted if you will, but when it comes to applying for a summer job or internship, it is still a selling point that we college kids know how to use Twitter.
Storr goes Scandinavian
Those not well-versed in Nordic culture might think Scandinavia is just all about salted herring and horned Viking helmets. To Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr, though, it is a rich and diverse environment for contemporary art.
Messer’s postcards from sabbatical
Just because Associate Dean of the School of Art Sam Messer is currently on sabbaticaldoes not mean he has quite left campus.
Art gallery shows ‘Old Gold’
Although it could be said that the Yale University Art Gallery is home to a gold mine of art, a recent exhibition is, quite literally, a gold mine of art.
Storr speaks on censorship
Dean of the School of Art Robert Storr spoke on censorship in American visual arts at a day-long symposium in Washington D.C. Saturday.
Sam’s Space shows disabled artists’ work
While Associate Dean of the School of Art Sam Messer may be on sabbatical in India for the semester, the small-scale gallery he curates in his office — otherwise known as “Sam’s Space” — has not shut down operations.
Restoring the unrestorable
Restoring Yale Art | Part 3 of 3
Some art works are just destined for decay. While the Yale University Art Gallery conservation department is hard at work restoring pieces of the collection for a 2012 reinstallation in the renovated wings of the gallery, conservators say there are some art works that have damage that simply cannot be reversed because of the ways in which they were constructed.
Mosaics inspire innovative technology
Restoring Yale Art | Part 2 of 3
At the A21 building on West Campus, five pieces of a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic lean against wooden supports under the fluorescent lights of an industrial workshop. Jazz music plays on the stereo as Thomas Philips, the senior materials assistant at the Yale University Art Gallery, prepares to grind a layer of concrete off the backs of the tiled works, which were excavated in the 1930s from Gerasa, now present-day Jerash, Jordan.
Murals conserved for art gallery reopening
Restoring Yale Art | Part 1 of 3
When the newly-hired curator of American paintings and sculpture took her first tour of Yale’s art storage facility 31 years ago, she found a set of damaged canvases wrapped up and rolled around two-by-four blocks of wood. The paintings, which had been there for 50 years, were some of the only surviving works from the first years of the late 19th-century American muralist movement, she realized.
Art Gallery shares collection, expands research
Today marks the opening of “Embodied: Black Identities in American Art,” a show curated as a joint effort between students at Yale and the University of Maryland. Last year, Yale collaborated with Oberlin and Harvard to acquire pieces for this fall’s exhibition of works by painter John La Farge. Now, Yale is in the process of lending nearly 100 pieces from the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection to the art museums at Dartmouth and Williams Colleges.
Arts internship links Yale, New Haven
This summer Yalies interested in art and philanthropy can work towards their future careers in New Haven.
Yalies roll, dance at workshop
Last night, a group of nine students spent two hours rolling off each other’s backs and dragging each other across the floor of a dance studio. This is called contact improvisation.
Japan influences new YCBA retrospective
On Thursday, the Center for British Art will open Salter’s one-woman exhibition, “into the light of things,” which features approximately 150 works by the abstract artist, whose work was inspired by her time spent working as an artist in Japan.
It's a love story — baby, just say yes
Could this be the next great love story in the making?
New dance program highlights classics
The Yale College Dean’s Office and the Alliance for Dance at Yale announced plans Thursday afternoon to go forward with a new dance initiative called the Yale Dance Theater Pilot Program that will allow students to perform existing choreography.
Arts awards change name
The fund formerly known as Sudler is no more.
Restoring a masterwork
For those who have yet to visit “The Education of the Virgin” in the Yale University Art Gallery — go soon. On Feb. 21, the work, which is believed to be among the earliest known works by the painter, will go into conservation, a restoration effort that could take up to four years, said Laurence Kanter, the gallery’s curator of European art. He added that simply formulating a plan for the painting’s conservation will take the better part of 2011.
New art for NewAlliance
On Tuesday, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven held a reception for a new exhibition featuring the work of two Connecticut artists in its gallery space on the fourth floor of the NewAlliance Bank on 195 Church St. The pieces in the exhibition are also up for purchase.
WEEKEND | A New Year's Resolution for the iPhone for Verizon
This New Year, please resolve to be less of a tease, iPhone for Verizon.
School of Art hires, hopes to diversify
In the midst of an economic downturn that has limited the number of faculty hires within the University, the School of Art has begun a search for two new faculty members.
Students take over prof’s office
On Thursday, a student-created art installation went up in Messer’s office, also known as “Sam’s Space,” which is located on the first floor of the School of Art’s Green Hall at 1156 Chapel St. The office doubles as an exhibition space open to any student up to the challenge of redesigning the interior, Messer said. And when it comes to design limits, Messer said students have total creative freedom — from stripping and covering the walls to rebuilding his furniture — just as long as he can work there.
Yale, New Haven foster bonds through dance
While the New Haven Promise announced Tuesday has forged an institutional connection between the administrations of Yale and New Haven public high schools, an after-school dance program, called the “Yale Dance Collaborative,” founded by Yale undergraduates last fall has been cultivating a link between Yalies and high school students at the local Cooperative Arts & Humanities high school.
Patti Smith lunches with students, talks art
Patti Smith, a singer, poet, and Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, paid a visit to campus on Wednesday and Thursday for a film screening of a documentary on her life, “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” and a reading of her recently-released autobiography, “Just Kids.” Both events were sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center. In between these sold-out events, Smith joined roughly 16 undergraduate and graduate students involved in different areas of the arts at Yale for an invitation-only lunch on Thursday to answer questions and speak about her developing aesthetic as an artist, Sarah Matthes ’13, who attended the lunch, said.
Video art finds virtual home
The school is currently working to launch a virtual gallery, called “Video Wall,”through its website to feature students’ video projects in order to make students’ video projects accessible to the public, said Samuel Messer, the Associate Dean of the School of Art. The site will show artists’ works for up to two to three weeks at a time in organized exhibitions, just as a physical gallery space would.
Registration dominated by Democrats
The Yale College Democrats are making the final push to get voters registered as the election nears, but Republicans have been conspicuously absent from registration drives.
Faculty art show lets students be the critics
The new faculty art show at the School of Art, “Hands off —Hands on,” features pieces from over 30 professors from the school, in media ranging from paint to pencil on paper to watermelon.
Six Yale organizations register 264 to vote
With the deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 2 midterm elections less than a week away, six Yale organizations teamed up last Saturday to urge students and New Haven residents to register.
YCBA exhibit features contemporary British art
“Independent Eye: Contemporary Paintings from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie,” opened Thursday at the Yale Center for British Art.
A design lesson, brick by brick
Architecture students build a house for low-income family
Fifty first year students at the School of Architecture built a house over the summer, doing everything from design to construction themselves.
YCC | Guillermo Peralta ’12, vice president
Guillermo Peralta’s ’12 platform for Yale College Council vice president has four main components: academic reform, more comprehensive financial aid, improved student services and increased collaboration between the YCC and other student groups.
Junior class race reopened
Junior Class Council presidential candidate Justine Kolata ’12 may have competition after the Yale College Council extended the deadline for candidacy applications.
We need dialogue
Before the tea, a well-dressed, bespectacled man scanned the crowd before taking his reserved seat in the front row. I half-expected Scott Schuman of “The Sartorialist” to pop out from behind the Beinecke’s glass tower of rare books to snap a photo of his ensemble, a tasteful navy suit mixed with a striped shirt and flowery tie in bright watermelon hues.
For speakers, Yale looks local
Departments aim to cut down on travel expenses by inviting closer guests
In searching for ways to save money, academic departments have tightened their budgets for speakers and guest lecturers.
Reject
Fashion Week, thanks for rejecting me on Valentine’s Day.
“Wolfman” sleeps @ nite
“They say it is no sin to kill an animal. But is it a sin to kill a man?” the voice-over asks us at the beginning of “The Wolfman.” I don’t know. But it definitely shouldn’t be a sin to kill a bad movie.
Weekend Survival Guide: V-Day
If you’re in a relationship over Valentine’s Day weekend, you’re set. I can offer you no other advice than to stick with with your significant other until Monday morning. So this is to all my single ladies. And men. Single men, too. Suggested methods for tackling this unholy weekend: Good Crush is getting SERIOUS. The field of anonymous declarations of love is growing, and if people don’t start getting together because of it, we might as well go to Cambridge and wrench the loveless award from Harvard’s chaste grasp. If there is one mantra to repeat over and over again, it is the chorus of this song, "I Am Not A Robot," by Marina and the Diamonds. My friend Cathy included this track on her annual Valentine’s Day mix. It illustrates a good message. Yes, you might want to protect yourself from the crushing depression of this holiday with icy cynicism and a stream of deliberately meaningless hookups. But remember this: you are not a robot. Abuse Good Crush like there will be no Monday morning awkwardness, and open yourself up to love.
Weekend Survival Guide: The best thing since sliced bread?
There's something to be learned from the Boy Scouts when it comes to making it through the weekend unscathed. A night spent wandering High Street's Frat Row before heading to Toad's is essentially comparable to surviving a night in the wilderness — featuring murky darkness and the paralyzing fear of being devoured by rabid beasts. But darkness makes everyone look better, and occasionally that rabid beast can provide a hot, sloppy dancefloor hookup. In situations like this, just remember: be prepared. The best thing since sliced bread? Sliced bread on a Saturday night. Grab a few slices of whole wheat bread from the dining hall, wrap 'em up in saran wrap, stick 'em in your coat pocket and head on out. Use 1: Ew, your BFF looks like she's about to toss her cookies all over that cutie-pie Q-pac guy she's been hitting on. Take her aside for an absorbent slice of bread. Use 2: If you're unsure of the way to the lightweight crew house, scatter bread crumbs on the sidewalk to guide you back home. Use 3: Your revived BFF ditches the Q-pac dude and starts hitting on your boyfriend instead?! Eat your feelings. But remember the golden rule of packing light: if it can't fit in your bra, you'll probably end up forgetting it at DKE. The lads have a bit more leeway here, since men's jeans tend to be more spacious in the pocket department than those worn by women. Ladies who want to carry more should consider investing in a good Sherpa-boyfriend or lingerie one cup size too big. Bread slices will fill out the cups nicely.
Citizen journalism cautioned
Speaking at the Whitney Humanities Center on Monday, journalist Farai Chideya said emerging forms of media such as blogs and Twitter feeds have opened up journalism to ordinary citizens and allowed human rights activists to organize supporters.
LIVE-BLOG: The Dramat Commencement Musical Info Session
Stay tuned as Eliza Brooke live-blogs the Dramat Commencement Musical Info Session, starting at 10 p.m. Tuesday night in the lounge of the Yale Repertory Theater.
Friday seminars stifle shopping
Though shopping period ends today, for some courses it’s also the first day of class. As a result, students and professors said they must devise alternate ways to allow shoppers to try these Friday courses on for size.
Yale researcher’s nutrition system promotes health
For those resolved to eat better in the new year, Yale School of Medicine researcher David Katz might have a solution. NuVal, a system designed by Katz that assigns a numerical evaluation of a food’s nutritional content, is currently available at three different supermarket chains. Katz said he hopes the system will help Americans to make better food choices.
Twilight actor speaks
Yalies caught a glimpse of a werewolf in Ezra Stiles on Tuesday.
Lights pose holiday hazard
Yale’s fire codes are preventing some students from decking the halls this Christmas season — halls like Farnam and Durfee, that is.
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