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Arts Archive This is Your Brain
in Tune
by Bruce Fellman
September/October 2003
Somewhere, hidden in the synapses, are the connections that give one person
in ten thousand the mysterious ability called perfect pitch. Neurobiologist
Dave Ross wants to find them.
Faking It
by Michael Taylor '81
September/October 2003
"Stone" arches. "Brick" walls. "Iron" gates. An
imitation Yale has sprung up on the set of the WB's Gilmore Girls this
summer. Hey -- is that the Calhoun courtyard?
The Gallery Goes Home
by Mark Alden Branch
May 2003
This summer, the Art Gallery begins a decade-long, $94 million renovation
and expansion plan that involves reclaiming the Old Gallery and Street Hall.
Beyond the Building
by Jennifer Kaylin
April 2003
When a fire destroyed a factory in downtown Ansonia, Connecticut, the town
enlisted Yale's Urban Design Workshop to help decide how to rebuild. For
the past ten years, this arm of the School of Architecture has offered advice
to cities and towns all over Connecticut.
Collateral Damage
by Catherine Roach '02
March 2003
Amid the chaos of World War II, Yale art professor Deane Keller had one job:
to put masterpieces of Italian art back where they belonged.
Back to the BAC
by Jennifer Kaylin
February 2003
When Amy Meyers came to Yale as a graduate student in 1978, she was captivated
by the newly opened Center for British Art. On the BAC's 25th anniversary,
Meyers returns as director.
Secrets of the Temple
by Mark Alden Branch
November 2002
A team of artists and scholars led by art historian Mary Miller
has reconstructed the most important murals in Maya art -- 1,200
years after they were painted.
One Good Turn
by Bruce Fellman
October 2002
As an exhibition at the Art Gallery shows, wood turning has metamorphosed
from simple craft to high art.
The Duke & I
by Arthur W. Galston
October 2002
Edward Kennedy Ellington was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1967. A Yale
biologist tells how the Duke became Doc.
Making Music Matter
by Peter Hawes
Summer 2002
How does a classical musician get to Carnegie Hall? The answer these days
involves far more than "practice, practice, practice." Under the
leadership of Dean (and pianist) Robert S. Blocker, the Yale School of Music
has found a combination of innovative and traditional ways to train students
to become viruoso performers, composers, and conductors -- and employable.
A New Dean Takes the Stage
by Peter Hawes
March 2002
The School of Drama and its Repertory Theatre have been the training ground
for some of the nation's premier practitioners of the dramatic arts. Its
newest leader is James Bundy, a 1993 Drama School graduate with lengthy family
ties to Yale, a long artistic career, and a vision for keeping theater at
center stage.
A British Blockbuster
by Bruce Fellman
November 2001
For Yale's Tercentennial, the Center of British Art wanted to stage an exhibition
that would be even grander than previous shows. The result is a display of
more than 80 masterpieces culled from the best collections in the country.
America the Beautiful
by Bruce Fellman
October 2001
The renovation of the American wing of the Yale University Art Gallery has
uncovered a historic building's architectural past. In addition to offering
students and scholars alike an updated way to examine paintings, sculpture,
and the decorative arts, the project provides a glimpse of the venerable
institution's future.
A Man with Plans
by Mark Alden Branch
May 2001
For 34 years, Alexander Garvin has been showing students how planning can
change American cities. Now he's at work on an audacious project to bring
the Olympics to New York City.
Paul Mellon's Personal
Best
by Bruce Fellman
April 2001
Horses, sporting life, and lush English landscapes form the core
of the final bequest by Yale's greatest benefactor.
Lights! Camera! Yale!
by Peter Hawes
April 2001
With its first tenured professors, the once beleaguered film
studies program is hoping for a renaissance.
High Performance
by Mark Alden Branch
February 2001
Music and drama were on the agenda for delegates to the Association
of Yale Alumni's fall assembly.
The Art School on Its Own
by Mark Alden Branch
December 2000
Finally free from its cramped quarters in the Art & Architecture Building,
the School of Art turns to the question of how art is to be made in the digital
age.
A Century of Drama at Yale
October 2000
In the university's Tercentennial year, the Dramat turns 100 and the School
of Drama turns 75. The history of both organizations is revealed in a presentation
of posters that highlight graphic design and amateur theater.
Lost and Found
by Mark Alden Branch
May 2000
A generation ago, the Art Gallery resolved to cleanse its early
Italian paintings of all previous restoration, a well-meaning but
drastic approach that soon became infamous in the art world. Now,
conservators at Yale and the Getty Museum are trying to make the
paintings easy on the eyes once again.
The Persistence of Poetry
by Peter Hawes
March 2000
In an era of sound bites and instant communication, a hard-core
group of faculty and students still subscribes to the close reading
of great verse as a way to help fathom the world around them.
The Lipstick: From Anti-War
to "Morse Resource"
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2000
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks by Pop Art sculptor Claes
Oldenburg '50 mysteriously appeared on the Beinecke Plaza during the spring
of 1969.
Exit an Icon
Summer 1999
When Paul Mellon '29 died last winter, he left a legacy to Yale like no other.
His final gift -- $90 million and more than 130 works of art -- is the largest
in the university's history. But his generosity had already permeated virtually
every area of the institution. In tribute, four people who knew Paul Mellon
in different roles offer their recollections.
An Artist Guarding the
Art
by Mark Alden Branch
May 1999
As the new director of the Yale University Art Gallery, artist Jock Reynolds
wants to narrow the gap between people who make art and people who present
it. Can he make the museum both more inviting to visitors and more hospitable
to contemporary art?
Old Yale: Before He Came
to Dinner
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 1999
When Monty Woolley was forced out of his job at Yale, students and alumni
rose up in protest. But it may have been the best thing that ever happened
to him.
Back to the BAC
by Bruce Fellman
April 1999
Closed in 1998 for renovations, the Center for British Art reopened in January
with three shows and a reorganization of the galleries that left no doubt
about the strength of the Center's mission or the energy of its new director.
Blast from the Past
by Mark Alden Branch
March 1999
As a designer, Robert A.M. Stern '65MArch cultivates an air of bygone gentility
in his vacation houses. But as the new Dean of the School of Architecture,
he's aiming for anything but calm.
Old Yale: A "Jubilee" that
Ushered in the Theater
by Judith Ann Schiff
November 1998
In the mid-1800s, Yale undergraduates gave thanks with a program of farce,
drama, and hijinks known as the Thanksgiving Jubilee.
Old Yale:
Artist in the Backfield
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 1998
Before the artist Frederic Remington began chronicling the life of the cowboy,
he tried another rough-and-tumble pursuit: Yale football.
Learning to Love A Cranky
Composer
by Peter Hawes
March 1998
An unprecedented award highlights the celebration of a Yale man who did much
to revolutionize music while maintaining a "day job" running an
insurance company, Charles Edward Ives.
The Building That Won't Go
Away
by Mark Alden Branch
February 1998
First celebrated, then vilified, burned, and battered, the late Paul Rudolph's
Art & Architecture Building may see a renaissance as the School of Art prepares
to escape at last.
The "Improv" Scene
by Mark Alden Branch
December 1997
Such venerable undergraduate institutions as the Dramat and the Whiffenpoofs
are getting a run for their audiences from a quartet of groups that entertain
the hard way, by making it up as they go.
The Greening of the
BAC
by Mark Alden Branch
November 1997
In surveying Irish painting, the Center for British Art departs from its
mandatenand confronts a thorny bit of British history.
A New Opening to China
by Bruce Fellman
October 1997
Although China is the world's oldest major culture, it remains
perplexing to many in the West. Next month, Yale University Press
unveils the first volume in a massive publishing venture that is
intended to expand our understanding of the Chinese -- and their
understanding of us.
To Be a Musician
by Annie Murphy Paul
Summer 1997
Serious musicians who choose Yale over conservatories may profit from a broad-gauge
education, but they risk sacrificing their art. At least one undergraduate
is making it all work.
Art and the Undergraduate
by Annie Murphy Paul
May 1997
Courses in painting and sculpture have always been risky choices in a college
that produces more CEOs than any other in the land. But a surprising number
of undergraduates find the studio as alluring as the classroom and the lab.
A "Mad" but Compelling
Vision
by Patrick Noon
April 1997
At the heart of the British Art Center's collections is a trove of delicate
works on paper by the English poet and artist William Blake. A show opening
this month illustrates the breadth and depth of his durably disturbing appeal.
The Arts and the City
by Bruce Fellman
October 1996
A trio of exhibitions at Yale galleries this fall highlights the power of
the university's arts institutions. It also coincides with a heightened sense
on the part of both Yale and New Haven of how the arts may be turned to the
city's advantage.
Remembering a Musical
Master
by Peter Hawes
October 1995
A refuge from the Nazis, Paul Hindemith became a legendary member of the
Music School faculty. On the centennial of his birth, the School is celebrating
the life and work of one of the century's major-and most enigmatic-composers.
Collecting from the Heart
by Bruce Fellman
October 1995
For more than half a century, Richard Brown Baker '35 has been amassing modern
art with an unfailing eye for quality. Now that he plans to donate most of
his trove to the Art Gallery, some of the best work from Dubuffet to Rauschenberg
will be on call for scholars and visitors alike.
What an Attic!
by Joseph W. Reed '54, '61PhD
April 1995
The exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opening this
month is unlike any the institution has ever mounted. "Things" is
a selection of the hundreds of artifacts-some precious, some just peculiar-that
have come to Yale over the centuries. The curator of the show reports on
the curious process of rummaging in one of the nation's most extraordinary
storehouses.
The Arts Amid Academe
by Bruce Fellman
February 1995
Yale is unique among Ivy League institutions in providing such comprehensive
professional training in the arts. At the AYA's most recent Assembly, deans
and delegates probed the powerful role of the muse in the classroom, and
beyond it.
The Play's Still the Thing
by Peter Hawes
February 1995
Yale's reputation for top-notch theater training rests heavily on such Drama
School alumni as Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, and Wendy Wasserstein. Less well
known is the college theater scene, where squash courts and loading docks,
not to mention classrooms, are used as settings for the study of pretty much
everything from Elizabethan drama to high-tech lighting.
And the Bands Play On
by Tom Verde
October 1994
In their other lives, those wacky halftime shows in the Bowl are likely to
play as much Hindemith as Sousa.
Behind the Art Gallery Scenes
by Mark Alden Branch
March 1994
Even if it can deliver the occasional blockbuster, a teaching museum's main
role is to provide a resource for scholars. At Yale, that means pretty much
everything from ancient textiles and silver spoons to a painting on glass
and John Trumbull's bones.
A Life in Writing: John
Hersey, 1914-1993
October 1993
A series of excerpts from the tributes read at memorial services, as well
as one from a student's reminiscence of his former teacher, for the Pulitzer
Prize -winning author who set a daunting standard for moral concern and high
literary grace.
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