My reverse honeymoon
a militant twilight
It’s like I’m in this reverse honeymoon period where everything is rosy because it isn’t forever.
IT’S OUR ROOF AND IT’S OUR RULES
For our guests this weekend (and for you (but mainly for them)) we have compiled a list of things guests shouldn’t do — faux pas, Don’ts, no-nos, Never Should You Evers.
‘Dancehall Queen’ grinds, scares
I was not allowed to see “Dancehall Queen” in theaters back when it came out in 1997. Even today, if I still lived at home, I doubt my mom would let me watch 96 minutes of what ex post facto can only be described as softcore ebony porn.
Yalie composer splits YSO in three
At its first concert of the year, the Yale Symphony Orchestra will premiere “Five Stuck” — a three-part composition they commissioned from Daniel Schlosberg ’10 that mixes baroque, classical and jazz music.
‘FEISENGRAD’ A CRAZY SUBCONSCIOUS RIDE
“Feisengrad” is not a comic book. “Feisengrad” is a novel with pictures every few pages. These pictures do not have speech bubbles or Lichtensteinian explosions with the word “Pow!” written across them.
School of Art blurring boundaries
Following a trend among art schools across the nation, the School of Art is looking to soften the lines distinguishing its four departments.
Haiti Presidential Election: Michel Martelly meets the Fugees
Michel “Sweet Mickey” Martelly seems like he talks in sound bytes. He throws around the words “change,” “inspiration” and “vision” almost as much as a Barack Obama speechwriter, his voice rising and falling at just the right moments — even when he’s talking to WEEKEND from a car on the way to the airport.
Gallery says Velazquez attribution is official
The Yale University Art Gallery is officially recognizing John Marciari’s GRD ’00 attribtuion of “The Education of the Virgin” to 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velazquez, and the University is inviting scholars to assist with conservation plans.
New Morse theater to help alleviate stage crunch
Plans for theater by new colleges on hold
Undergraduate theater and dance groups are vying for access to the new theater space in the basement of Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, which boasts flexible seating, a shock-absorbing floor and good sight lines. The Crescent will help relieve the shortage of performance space on campus.
Where the convicts and the buffalo roam
My family decided to hold its every-few-years-or-so reunion this summer in Montana. We met in Montana because one of my aunts has a summer home in Whitefish that can almost accommodate the six siblings, six spouses, and a gaggle of grandkids (many of whom slept on couches and the floor).
Dispatches from shopping period: Byzantion
HSAR 264/MMES124/HUMS423 Byzantion, Constantinople, Istanbul TTh 10.30-11.20 LORIA 351 An introduction, by Prof. Robert Nelson: "I wanted this course to be called 'From Homer to Pamuk,' and the committee wouldn't approve it. But I wrote it on the slide up there in brackets because no one's going to stop me … Actually, I don't think I'm supposed to be telling you any of this."
Yale art thief sentenced to 3 years
The artworks were found at the home of 48-year-old drug dealer Bruno Nestir in March of 2009, along with heroin, packets of marijuana, cash money and firearms. Superior Court Judge Roland Fasano gave Nestir an eight-year sentence, suspended after three years following testimonials of Nestir’s history with mental illness and substance abuse.
YUAG renovations on schedule
The two large red cranes on Chapel Street, the scaffolding and protective fencing around the periphery of Egerton Swartwout’s Old Art Gallery and Street Hall, and the occasional disruption of traffic on High Street are signs of progress.
UP CLOSE | A new push for renewal
Shortages of experienced conservators, along with space constraints on central campus, severely limit the amount of conservation work the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art can accomplish. As a result, conservators are looking to the West Campus for solutions.
Edmund Pillsbury ’65, 1943-2010 | Second director grew YCBA
Edmund Pillsbury ’65, who served as the second director of the Yale Center for British Art from 1976 to 1980, died Thursday in Dallas from a heart attack. He was 66 years old.
Charles Ryskamp GRD ’56, 1928-2010 | Patron lent collection
Charles Ryskamp GRD ’56, a long-time collaborator with and friend of the Yale Center for British Art, died from cancer in New York early Friday morning. He was 81 years old.
Dorms through the ages: from fancy to functional
“There’s No Place Like Home: Student Rooms at Yale, 1870-1910” is an online exhibition organized by the Yale University Art Gallery that features black-and-white photographs of dormitories from a forgotten era in Yale’s history.
Haircuts: A Comprehensive Guide
Let scene tell you, most Yalies prefer to get their hair cut from the same person at HOME who’s been doing it forever, that magic man or woman who knows exactly how to work your layers or how to not make your ears stick out. But sometimes you need a cut FORTHWITH. Maybe you’re ready for a new look, but aren’t sure if you can trust the unfamiliar options in New Haven. scene took the guessing out of the equation and investigated EIGHT different salons, barbershops and beauty parlors around the ’Have. Here’s what we found:
Beinecke expands Web presence
Only two pages of artist Erica Van Horn’s book “Folded Napkins” are on display at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, but an online version of the exhibition allows guests to flip through the entire volume from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Art meets nature in Mountainville
Located just two hours away from Yale in Mountainville, New York sits Storm King Art Center—500 acres of lawns, fields, woodlands and ponds dedicated to exploring the relationship between art and nature. The varied landscape—at times manicured and tidy and at others unbridled—is dotted with immense sculptures and works of art. The center was founded in 1960 with the intention of exhibiting Hudson Valley painters. But after visiting a marble quarry site, co-founder Ralph Ogden became especially interested in sculpture. The center soon purchased a collection of works from American sculpture David Smith and the rest, as they say, is history. Read more after the jump.
The Winter Olympics 2010: Figure skating
I walked into my common room Tuesday evening to find the whole gang gathered around our tiny television set. “What are you guys watching?” I asked.
Monopoly: Ivy Noodle
It’s Saturday night in New Haven. The Q-Pac bus has finally left and the only evidence of the night’s debauchery is the smattering of beer bottles and cigarette butts lining York Street. The guy you were hoping to hook up with has gone home without you, and you’re texting your friends to see what else is going on. Enter: Nothing.
Art at Yale goes global
Next year, the History of Art Department will offer a third introductory survey course: “Introduction to Global Art History: Art of the Buddhist World," which marks a landmark in Yale’s continuing effort to internationalize the arts.
Art in Proximity: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this weekend for a little extra dose of culture. The MFA is one of those iconic museums that you couldn’t possibly see in a day, let alone the hour and a half I had to wander its neo-classical halls. And I spent the first hour and fifteen minutes of my visit wandering, attempting to find the thing that I had planned to see (Manet’s Street Singer). Here’s what I found: Read more after the jump.
Student curators branch out
Though the Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Art Gallery have had students curate exhibits since 2006, both are expanding the scope of student curatorial programs this year, as well as collaborating with collectors and institutions outside Yale.
Art In Proximity: The Ego and the Id
If you happen to be on 5th Avenue and 60th in New York City and aren’t racing down the street with your face burrowed into your scarf, you may notice two strange objects in the Doris C. Freedom Plaza at the edge of Central Park, a home to public art installations in Central Park since the early 1980s. The two monolithic pieces are “The Ego and the Id” by contemporary Austrian artist Franz West. The whimsical sculptures look like vaguely sinister ribbons, their brightly colored structures reminiscent of the seedy underbelly of a carnival sideshow, though it may have just been the gloomy weather that created the atmosphere of foreboding. One of the pieces is bubble-gum pink, a giant version of the Franz West sculpture “Laokoon” that was a part of the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibition “Continuous Present.” The other is made up of blocks of orange, yellow, green and blue, a striped scrunchy from the 90s stretched one too many times. But whether it be whimsical or sinister, lighthearted or strange, the sculpture can’t help but elicit a question from curious passersby: which is the ego and which is the id? I still can’t decide.
New collection, new curator
Now, as a collection of Indonesian textiles, gold Javanese jewelry and Southeast Asian statuettes begins to arrive at the Yale University Art Gallery, Ruth Barnes is settling into her new job at Yale as the Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at the art gallery.
City on the hill
Beyond the School of Management, beyond “The Whale,” way past the food carts, beyond Kroon Hall and the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, at the part of Science Hill where it stops being a hill and becomes a plateau, beyond even the Leitner Observatory, sits the Yale Divinity School.
Professor pushes for more Native art on campus
The Yale University Art Gallery has Asian, African and even Indo-Pacific departments, but it is largely lacking in collections from closer to home — American Indian art. Now, one professor is trying to change that.
Briefly: Gallery construction now visible
After over two months of preliminary preparations, construction at the Yale University Art Gallery is finally visible from Chapel Street. Fences and tarp were put up along the side of the Louis Kahn building — the Gallery’s current home — and the adjacent Swartwout building last week, gallery officials said on Sunday.
Volume showcases student talent
The neon-colored head and jumble of painted legs lying side by side on the back cover of Volume, an on-campus music publication which releases its most recent issue today, are a far cry from the simple graphics that have graced the back page of the magazine in years past.
Backstage: Omar Searcy
Nine-year-old ’00s expert Omar Searcy talked pop culture, love, sports and politics with Lauren Motzkin and Gabriel Barcia in between soccer and basketball practice Thursday night. He also plays baseball.
Hey Lauren, it’s me, Lauren
Dear 9-Year-Old Lauren, Hey, kid. I like your glasses. The red frames? Too cute. You’re so ahead of your time. Wanna hear something cool? My name is Lauren too.
Bulldogs lose The Game, win Best in Show
Embarrassingly enough, I spent a good part of my morning watching I was setting the Thanksgiving table (forks on the left, knives on the right, wine glass, water glass, fold the napkins) with the television on in the background and, after the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the dog show found its way onto my TV screen. Although I loved the 2000 film “Best in Show” and have a dog at home — Shetland Sheepdog, Herding Group — I am by no means a canine enthusiast. But as I was about to change the channel, the bulldog, named “Razzle Dazzle,” just so happened to be entering the arena (Floor? Rink? Court?). Much to the delight of the judge, he leapt into the air, his jowls shaking. The commentator quipped, “that’s the most calories a bulldog has ever burned at one time!” And GUESS WHAT, scenesters: Razzle Dazzle won in his group, aptly named the “Non-Sporting Group.” That must be why we always lose the Game. Boola boola! Happy Thanksgiving!
Expenses a concern for arts majors
Administrators survey students about costs of materials compared to textbooks
Photography student Miranda Lewis ’12 said she worked all summer to purchase a new digital camera for her “Digital Photography” class.
Creationism vs. secularism: a showdown on Cross Campus
Bridge Logos, a Christian publishing company, handed out free copies of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species on Cross Campus today — but there's a catch. "The books all have a 54-page introduction of creationist bulls--- by the renowned dumbass, Ray Comfort," said Vlad Chituc '12, the community service co-coordinator of the Secular Student Alliance at Yale. Read more after the jump.
scene | From 18th-century to avant garde
How to make the most of Yale's arts exhibits the weekend of The Game
In between tailgates, Harvard-Yale “bonding” events and, oh yeah, The Game, Yalies, Cantabs and other visitors may want to take a moment to visit one of Yale’s current art exhibitions. Because there are so many and only so many unoccupied (read: sober) hours in the day this coming weekend, scene recommends our favorites:
Book Trader Cafe: Inexpensive bliss
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Art shielded from renovation
A stately stone statue of Buddha on the second floor of the Yale University Art Gallery sits against a backdrop of plastic tarp. But it’s not an ironic juxtaposition that makes an artistic statement — the tarp is intended to protect the art during the renovation of Egerton Swartwout’s Old Art Gallery, slated for completion in 2012.
Landlords: School’s out
When Yalies move off campus, they lose the basic support network that Yale’s residential college system provides. So, who do they turn to? As this point, students trade masters and deans for landlords and property managers. These are relationships that can turn sour at the flip of the switch or the breaking of a pipe.
Art finds new venue in Dean's office
A blue sky with swirling white clouds stretches into the distance. A patch of green — grass or the top of a tree — barely grazes the horizon.
New associate arts dean settles in at Yale
The walls of Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan’s small apartment on Dwight Street — home to Cahan; her partner, Jürgen Bank; and her dog, Jimi — are covered with paintings, photographs and multimedia prints acquired over the past 20 years.
Make sweet iPhone music
I never buy an iPhone application if I’m going to have to pay for it.
Smilow’s interior features modern art
Modern medicine and modern art came together at the Smilow Cancer Hospital, which opened Wednesday afternoon.
Gallery named for Levins
The Yale University Art Gallery will immortalize University President Richard Levin and his wife, Jane, the director of undergraduate studies for the Directed Studies program, by naming a new teaching gallery after the University’s first couple.
Preservationists honor Scully
Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49 was honored Thursday with the national preservation movement’s highest accolade. But, at 89, he was unable to accept it in person.
Art and protest at the Beinecke
To the right of the security desk at the Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, a black and white poster screams “Fin de L’Universitaire.”
Name changed, Family Weekend begins
Yale officially changed the name this year, but not all campus groups have followed suit
Though students’ relatives will flock to campus this weekend, filling Union League Café, the Omni Hotel and the Yale Bowl as usual, campus visitors will not be treated to the “Parents’ Weekend” of years past. This time, it’s officially called “Family Weekend.”
Dia:Beacon — Day out:Beats your average
I couldn’t tell you how to get to Beacon, New York. I was asleep for much of the two-hour journey, waking only to find myself driving through the charming town on my way to the Dia Foundation’s warehouse.
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