Mai Wang
Mai Wang
Recent Stories
A Field Guide to Public Art
New Haven’s sculptures, monuments, and murals have a storied past but an uncertain future. Mai Wang takes stock of the city’s public art before it disappears.
Some call it a sidewalk; others call it art. Walk down Chapel Street, turn right on Orange, look down, and you’ll find the New Haven Path of Stars: a two-block line of eight-pointed stars nestled in the Ninth Square. Every 15 feet, a star announces the name of a past local “celebrity.”
My Yale - Tickling the Rare Ivories
Antique pianos rub elbows with harpsichords and viols at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Mai Wang explores the contents of the museum and even tries her hand at playing one of the ancient beauties.
Personal Essay - This is the First Minute of the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
A birthday is returning to the launch site after a year away. We come in dusty, surprised to see ourselves in an old place again. We find our cities, our friends and families. In the parks, the trees with white paint ringing the base of their trunks are candles dipped in frosting. Blowing them out, extinguishing the little lives we claim in the midst of a longer one, we reset ourselves for another round.
Profile - The Singing Woodsman
Part pastoral troubadour, part indie-pop professor, songwriter and author LD Beghtol looks like a man out of time and place. Mai Wang uncovers the bard behind the beard and the man behind the music.
Ideas Yale Should Steal
What do we do with a drunken singer?... Credit/D/Freeze... Quidditch is Real!
Barefood Buddhism
Battell Chapel is named for the site of Jacob’s famous vision. But every night it houses the rituals of an Eastern religion, as led by Yale’s Buddhist Chaplain, Bruce Blair.
Profile - Barefoot Buddhism
Battell Chapel is named for the site of Jacob’s famous vision. But every night it houses the rituals of an Eastern religion, as led by Yale’s Buddhist Chaplain, Bruce Blair.
Road Kill Grace
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Hailing from Asheville, N.C., photographer Kora Manheimer is not afraid of confronting the grit and beauty of the South. "I don't want my pictures to be the kind they feature in National Geographic," she said of her nature photography.