Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
A small exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art explored sustainability beyond its traditional realm in science. As a part of the Yale Sustainability Summit, the Yale Center for British Art showcased the works of seven artists who use nature as their subject or medium Thursday afternoon. The special exhibit, “Modern British Art and the Environment,” was a...
NEW YORK — In the fall of 2007, when it seemed certain that Yale and Peru would reach an amicable agreement over the ownership of Inca artifacts housed at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, it also seemed certain that a museum would be built in Peru to house the high-quality pieces the University was willing to send back. Now, as the parties begin to wage a legal...
For two hours and 20 minutes, audience members in the Whitney Humanities Center viewed the year 2001 through the prism of the 1960s. Saturday evening, this packed auditorium celebrated the legacy of director Stanley Kubrick and his critically acclaimed film originally released in 1968, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Though the groundbreaking filmmaker died ten years ago, a...
Artist and activist Nicholas Bhekifa Mamba, president of the Association of Swazi Theatre Groups, uses theater to create awareness in AIDS-ridden Swazi communities. In his art, Mamba said he transforms performance into education, which can influence change within a culture. That culture is constantly struggling to reconcile long-rooted traditions with pressing health...
One of the images Myra Jones-Taylor GRD ’09 remembers from the “electrifying” inauguration of President Barack Obama is the Barack Obama action figure. Jones-Taylor, a graduate student in the American Studies department, and her girlfriends took over 750 images of the inauguration, but the photo of the action figure — which would be given to a friend’s nephew...
Rule of thumb: If you are due for surgery, watch for nail polish. Germs and bacteria work their way into nails with polish far better than nails without, explained Art Angus Trumble, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, at a Thursday lecture to promote his new book “The Finger: A Handbook.” Trumble himself underwent an...
Yale filed suit Monday against Pierre Konowaloff, who claims to be the rightful owner of Vincent van Gogh’s renowned 1888 painting “The Night Café,” which is housed in the Yale University Art Gallery. According to the suit, filed in the United States District Court in Connecticut, Konowaloff claims to be the heir of Ivan Morozov, a Russian aristocrat who owned the...
Dozens of pieces of art, including three lifted from Yale’s Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, were recovered from a house near the Yale New Haven Hospital after the man apprehended for stealing multiple works identified their location. At a press conference at the New Haven Police Department headquarters Monday, the 39 recovered pieces were put on display with the...
Drama at Yale continues to thrive on and off campus: a show about terrorism in Israel goes up at the Whitney Humanities Center, the new Yale Institute for Music Theatre selects summer shows and a Yale alum ventures into playwriting. Esther Zuckerman gives a run down of recent theater developments. ANOTHER SALOVEY ON CAMPUS A second Salovey is making his presence known...
In a world that grows more connected each day, traditional national and academic boundaries are becoming more inter-disciplinary, speakers at the symposium on East Asian scholarship in the arts said. This weekend, a three-day symposium called “East Asia in Motion: Literature, Cinema, and Dance,” featured presentations to show how the borders of nations and the...
Fred Strebeigh is known at Yale as a beloved, and bearded, teacher of nonfiction writing. Much of Strebeigh’s own work has been in the realm of nature writing, and he is a senior lecturer in both English and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. But his new book, which came out Friday, is a legal history two decades in the making, called ...
Keeping Connecticut’s budget in the black means putting the New Haven’s Festival of Arts and Ideas into the red. That was the message from Gov. M. Jodi Rell in delivering the state’s proposed budget for the coming year last Wednesday. The festival will be one of 19 cultural programs — which include the Shubert Theater and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven —...
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