The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) was Louis Kahn’s last project and a landmark building for Yale. The exhibition “People Look Up at Good Architecture” examines Kahn’s innovative use of natural light and complex skylight system.
The 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 16-19 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community. All events are free and open to the public.
The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings will be available at windhamcampbell.org in mid-August 2025.
The Yale Review presents The Yale Review Festival 2025, featuring four days of readings, conversations, craft talks, and workshops with novelists, poets, critics, and editors. Detailed schedule forthcoming.
Join us at Haas Arts Library for a peek at a selection of photobooks from the library’s special collections!
The term “artist book” can be hard to define. Simply put, an artist book is an art object inspired by the form and/or function of a conventional book. Haas Arts Library has thousands of artist books in its special collections. During this session, library staff will showcase a few recent acquisitions. Feel free to drop in anytime during the hour.
European artists of the 17th through 19th centuries often depicted Black figures wearing pearl ornaments. The dialogue between racial and chromatic blackness paired visually with pearly luminescence resulted in a contrast that evoked notions of luxury, distant lands, and exoticized portrayals of Black bodies. Art historian and curator Adrienne Childs explores the complexities of the Black body that was subjugated and enslaved in one context yet used to showcase luxuries in another.
From Queen Elizabeth I to Harry Styles the legacy of pearls is a story about self-fashioning. Pearls feature prominently in many pictures of celebrated figures from the past. Worn as jewelry—as embellishments of the body and apparel, or embedded in the settings of precious objects—pearls illuminate ideas about beauty, power, and style.
Join us for free food and music as we welcome the 2024 recipients to campus! Free food from the Big Green Truck Pizza, Pitaziki, Taqueria Tlaxcala, and Sweet Cupcasions. Music by Yale’s own DJ VNA.
Please visit windhamcampbell.org for detailed event descriptions and updates.
Shining Light on Truth presents evidence of the essential role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building. And it illuminates knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for more than three centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget.
On close display will be a selection of rare science books and manuscripts from 1511 into the 20th century from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Featured authors include Galileo, Isaac Newton, Josiah Gibbs, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, and Neils Bohr.
Curated by Andy Shimp, librarian for Engineering and Applied Science, Chemistry, and Mathematics
This event marks the opening of the new exhibit, “Copying Sacred Scriptures: A Spiritual Practice,” now on view in the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library. The event will include an introductory lecture and live Sagyŏng demonstration from Master Dagil Kim Kyeong-ho. A reception will follow at 6:00 p.m.
Master Kim is a poet, calligrapher, and artist who has devoted himself to the continuation of the rare art and technique of Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) for the last 30 years.
