2009 News Archive: Arts & Architecture

November 
11/20/09New Musical Asks: Who Took a ‘Pop’ at Andy Warhol?
11/19/09Yale Baroque Opera Presents Scenes from Handel’s Operas and Oratorios
11/13/09Exhibit Documents the Courage of Women ‘in the Face of Unbelievable Atrocities’ in the Congo
11/13/09‘Native Guard’ Author Will Read From Her Work at Beinecke Library
11/05/09Ralph Lauren Establishes Gwathmey Professorship at Yale School of Architecture
11/04/09Yale Arts Library Showcases Work of Noted Aerial Photographer Robert B. Haas
11/02/09Alfred Brendel Lectures and Gives Master Class at Yale

 

October 
10/30/09New Teaching Space in Yale Art Gallery Named In Honor of President Levin and his Wife, Jane
10/30/09School of Drama Adds New Concentration in Projection Design
10/30/09Once-Underground Polish Theater Troupe To Present Play the Communist Government Had Banned
10/30/09Reading Will Revive Play Once Scorned As Too ‘Salacious’
10/29/09Symposium at Yale Looks at Everyday Things Through Architectural Prism
10/29/09National Trust for Historic Preservation Gives Highest Award to Vincent J. Scully
10/23/09Yale Opera Students To Stage Scenes from Mozart, Donizetti
10/21/09Symposium at Yale Celebrates Italian Futurism
10/20/09Film about Peace Park in Middle East To Be Screened at Yale
10/19/09Yale Celebrates 40th Birthday of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
10/16/09Drama School Stages Racine’s ‘Fairy Tale for Fools’
10/16/09Play at Yale Rep Looks at Liberian Women in a War Zone
10/16/09Horace Walpole’s Famed Collection Explored in Exhibit
10/16/09‘Continuous Present’ Examines the Ways Artists Convey Their Ideas
10/14/09Exhibit at Yale School of Architecture Salutes Venturi & Scott Brown
10/09/09Seminar Helps Students Understand the Past Through ‘Visual Biographies’
10/08/09Composer John Adams to Present Tanner Lectures at Yale University
10/06/09Beinecke Exhibition Documents French Spirit of Rebellion 1945–1980
10/06/09Norman R. Foster Visiting Professorship Established at Yale University
10/02/09Architecture Students Add Some ‘Jimmy’ Character to Their Design

 

September 
09/25/09Exhibition Explores Unconventional Approaches to Printmaking
09/22/09Dedication Scheduled for House Built by Yale School of Architecture Students
09/18/09Exhibit Showcases Work of 18th-Century Botanical Artist
09/18/09Yale Rep Opens Its New Season with Ibsen’s ‘The Master Builder’
09/18/09Campus Events Celebrate Legendary Clarinetist Benny Goodman
09/14/09Mellon Grant To Support A Survey Of Yale’s Collections of Photographs
09/04/09Founder of Groundbreaking Theater Troupe Returns to the Scene of a Scandal
09/04/09‘Infinitesimal Eternity’ Exhibition To Feature Works by 13 Artists
09/02/09Yale University to Honor Art Historian Robert F. Thompson

 

August 
08/31/09Yale College Appoints First Associate Dean for the Arts
08/28/09Campus To Host U.S. Premiere of ‘Breaking the Veils’
08/28/09Exhibition Showcases Trends in Sustainable Architecture
08/10/09School of Architecture Announces Exhibitions for Fall Term of Academic Year

 

July 
07/17/09Restoring Ancient ‘Green Lady’ Is a Balancing Act for Curators
07/17/09Newly Acquired Edward Hopper Sketches Illuminate the Artist’s Creative Process
07/17/09Exhibition Examines the ‘Uncertainties, Anxieties and Rewards of the Workplace’
07/17/09Exhibit Recounts Work of Missionaries in the Belgian Congo
07/02/09Yale School of Architecture Announces Public Events for Fall Term

 

June 
06/15/09Festival Tours Highlight University’s Architectural Treasures
06/12/09Plays by 10 City Youths To Be Staged by Yale Drama Students
06/12/09Complexities of Art Conservation Highlighted in New Exhibit
06/12/09‘Seascapes’ Features Scenes From Days of Maritime Glory
06/12/09Works Created in England by Exiled French Artist On View at British Art Center
06/12/09Creations of Yale Sculptor On View This Summer at Three New York Venues
06/09/09New Haven Students in Yale Film and Music Program To Screen Creations
06/01/09Yale Dedicates the Frederick Iseman Theater

 

May 
05/22/09Yale To Honor Outstanding Music Education Teachers from Across the Nation
05/15/09‘Rap for Justice’ Offers Message of Non-Violence and Peace
05/15/09Exhibition Features Works About ‘French Liberty. British Slavery’
05/01/09Beinecke Curators Offer Peek Inside a Virtual ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
05/01/09Visiting Lecturer Wins Pulitzer Prize for Play About Congolese War
05/01/09Victorian Paintings from the Royal Holloway Collection On View
05/01/09Carlotta Festival Showcases Plays by Graduating Drama Students

 

April 
04/29/09Symposium at Yale School of Architecture Explores Legacy of James Stirling
04/24/09Film Studies Program To Honor Actor-Director Jodie Foster
04/24/09‘Starry Messenger’ Sheds Light on ‘Heavens in the Age of Galileo’
04/24/09‘Living Portraits’ by Carl Van Vechten Featured in Beinecke Library Show
04/23/09First Burmese Choir to Visit the U.S. to Perform with Yale Singers
04/23/09Yale/4Peace Rap Contest Deadline is April 27, 2009
04/22/09Yale to Host Italian Film Festival
04/21/09Yale University a Partner in Newly Launched World Digital Library
04/21/09Yale Students Perform Cavalli Opera as Part of Conference on the Composer
04/20/09Yale Schola Cantorum Concludes Season with Bach’s Mass in B Minor
04/17/09Sterling Library Exhibit Features Ornate Ketubot from Around the World
04/10/09In Memoriam: Architect Peter Millard, Won Awards for Firehouse Designs
04/10/09Class Helping Future Doctors Learn the Art of Observation
04/08/09Yale Opens Ultra-Green Kroon Hall
04/07/09Yale To Give Free Tours of Two Music Facilities on April 18
04/01/09Former Director Returns to Yale Center for British Art To Give Paul Mellon Lecture

 

March 
03/27/09Series on Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema Features Films That Explore Once-Taboo Topics
03/27/09Exhibit Explores Andean Village’s Religious Rituals
03/27/09New Yale Younger Poet’s Volume Is ‘Savage, Desolate, Brutally Ironic’
03/27/09Play About Guantánamo Detainee Wins Yale Drama Series Award
03/20/09‘Notes From Underground,’ Dostoevsky’s ‘Confession’ of a Man Raging Against the World, Is Yale Rep’s Next Offering
03/20/09Play at the WHC Recounts Mother’s Story About Her Son’s Murder in Israel
03/19/09Yale School of Music Funds Alumni Efforts to Promote the “Cause of Music”
03/18/09Gallery Creates New Department Of Indo-Pacific Art; Leading Scholar Appointed Inaugural Curator
03/16/09Video Artist Pierre Huyghe Signals Launch of New Art Lecture Series at Yale
03/12/09Yale Announces Appointment of Conductor Masaaki Suzuki
03/06/09In Memoriam: Fenno Heath, Inspired Song in Many as Yale Glee Club Director
03/06/09Art Inspired by Suburbia is Featured in New Exhibition

 

February 
02/20/09Darwin and the Captain of ‘The Beagle’ Brought To Life in Staged Reading
02/12/09Panel Discussion Led by Yale School of Art Dean on Curating International Art
02/12/09Yale’s New Medical School Building Earns LEED Gold
02/09/09Yale School of Architecture Announces First Grants for Research in Advanced Sustainability
02/06/09Symposium Will Examine the Continuing Influence of 16th-Century Architect Palladio
02/06/09Mozart’s ‘Fairy Tale’ Opera To Get New Interpretation in Yale Production
02/06/09Darwin’s Impact on the Visual Arts Is Illustrated in Exhibit
02/06/09Musical Will Explore the Life of ‘Inventor of Jazz’ Jelly Roll Morton
02/06/09Yale Books in Brief
02/05/09Yale Students Fill Vacant Storefront with Classwork
02/05/09School of Architecture Exhibits Art Inspired by Suburbia

 

January 
01/30/09Newest Yale Gallery To Showcase International Art
01/30/09Poet Recalls Inauguration Reading as Moment of ‘Awe and Joy’
01/30/09New Play at the Yale Rep is a Tragedy About Immigrant Family
01/30/09Picasso’s Love for Language Is Explored in Yale Art Gallery Exhibition
01/30/09Recital To Feature the Winners of Undergraduate Music Competition
01/26/09Yale Urban Studies Course Offers Series of Public Events and Lectures
01/22/09Yale University to Host Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
01/16/09Noted Theater Manager To Be Associate Dean
01/16/09‘the break/s’ Takes Audiences On a Hip-Hop Odyssey
01/16/09Symposium Will Re-Examine the Reputation of Architect Paul Rudolph
01/15/09Japanese Artist's Works Inspired by Faith On Display at Yale
01/15/09Yale School of Architecture Announces Free Public Events for Spring 2009
01/15/09Symposium at the Yale School of Architecture Revisits Life and Legacy of Paul Rudolph
01/09/09Long Wharf Theatre Hosts Symposium on Global Health and the Arts
01/08/09Actor Puts on Show Remembering Samuel Beckett