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  • Stories in glass

    Artist Barbara Earl Thomas has been commissioned to create new stained glass panes for the windows of the Grace Hopper College dining hall. The new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 14 2020 07:39am

  • Seabury’s second act

    When you watch the film version of Hamilton tonight, keep an eye out for Samuel Seabury, Yale Class of 1748. He’s the guy in the Anglican... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2020 08:00am

  • Juneteenth in Oklahoma

    Happy Juneteenth! This image of a Juneteenth celebration in 1920s Oklahoma comes from a silent film by amateur filmmaker Solomon Sir Jones. Jones... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 19 2020 09:04am

  • The Will to carry on

    “Our separation so abides, and flies, That thou, residing here, go’st yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.”... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2020 07:51am

  • Portrait of the architect

    The rich ornament of Yale’s early–twentieth century neo-gothic buildings includes the visages of the architects, craftsmen, and patrons... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2020 08:49am

  • Group effort

    Since Sol Lewitt left his wall drawings to Yale after his death in 2007—actually, they are instructions for wall drawings that anyone can... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2020 08:25am

  • Come blow your horn

    After being closed for renovations for nine months, Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments opened with great fanfare Thursday night with an... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2020 08:43am

  • Not-so-living color

    Artist James Prosek ’97, who made his name while still an undergrad for his paintings of trout, has a new exhibition at the Art Gallery through... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2020 02:50pm

  • Looking back

    Opening today at the Center for British Art: Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement looks at a group... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 13 2020 10:50am

  • Collect ’em all!

    Available at the Center for British Art's museum shop: a full set of the wives of Henry the Eighth. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 16 2020 12:37pm

  • Memento

    If you visit the Yale Bands HQ in Hendrie Hall, you might run across this mellophone, autographed at the request of the members of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2020 08:46am

  • A woman in full

    The earliest full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, dating from around 1567, is on loan to the Center for British Art until the fall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 2 2020 08:42am

  • Displaying Common Sense

    A first edition of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense is on display through January 20 at the Beinecke Library, along with other... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 16 2019 12:05pm

  • American art

    Now on view at the Art Gallery: Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art, a student-curated... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 21 2019 08:40am

  • Painting by numbers

    We spotted Natalie Karas, a conservator with the firm Materials Conservation, working on Maya Lin’s sculpture The Women’s Table on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 30 2019 07:54am

  • Great divider

    On view through November 16 at the School of Architecture gallery: an exhibit of the work of sculptor Erwin Hauer (1926–2017) who taught at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 5 2019 10:39am

  • Furniture, rearranged

    After 60 years in the basement of 149 York Street, the Art Gallery’s collection of American furniture  has some breathing room. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 30 2019 08:38am

  • House museum

    The Yale University Art Gallery is known for its collection of American decorative arts, but the university also has a kind of open-air museum of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2019 10:13am

  • Creepy crawly

    Some guerrilla artists found an irresistible canvas in the pipe that emerges from the sidewalk on Whitney Avenue over the Farmington Canal line. A... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 29 2019 08:31am