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  • 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

  • Sitting pretty

    The School of Architecture’s annual exhibition of student work includes these projects from a class called, appropriately enough, The Chair.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2019 10:24am

  • True colors

    Center for British Art architect Louis Kahn once said of the building, "On a gray day it will look like a moth, on a sunny day like a butterfly."... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2019 01:25pm

  • Through Whitman’s eyes

    Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. The Beinecke Library is marking the occasion with a pop-up exhibit of letters... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 30 2019 08:01am

  • Doesn't look a day over 400

    “To me, fair friend, you never can be old  /  For as you were when first your eye I eyed  /  Such seems your beauty... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2019 08:47am

  • Babylon revisited

    A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum showcases Yale’s remarkable Babylonian Collection, which includes some of the oldest examples of written... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 17 2019 08:27am

  • Shattered

    One item in the student-curated exhibition of Yale’s collection of American glass at the Art Gallery is not like the others: it’s in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 11 2019 07:19am

  • Glass class

    American glass is the subject of a new Yale University Art Gallery exhibition curated by a team of six undergraduates. A Nation Reflected: Stories... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 2 2019 10:47am

  • Multimedia

    Now showing at the Art Gallery: a major work by Matthew Barney ’89 called Redoubt that includes a feature-length film, large sculptures... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 27 2019 10:12am

  • Sky scraper

    Sculptor Robert Engman ’55MFA, who was teaching at Yale during the construction of the Art & Architecture Building (now Paul Rudolph Hall)... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2019 02:24pm

  • Curtain call

    It’s audition season at the School of Drama, when aspiring actors try out for admission into next year’s class. Apparently, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 6 2019 08:34am

  • Comfy classic

    Those comfy chairs in the Haas Family Arts Library? They’re "Womb chairs” by architect Eero Saarinen ’34BFA, who designed them for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2019 10:44am