Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:42pm
Aliza Shvarts’ ’08 controversial senior art project may have dominated talk about the Art Department this past week. But today, 20 other senior art majors will unveil their final projects — with or without her. The themes and ideas behind the seniors’ work are profoundly diverse, and the show will feature pieces from each of the four concentrations in the art...
Although the pope has left the United States for Italy, a little bit of Italy will be found on Yale’s campus this weekend. The third annual Italian Film Festival — sponsored by Yale’s Italian Department, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, the Whitney Humanities Center and the Office of Public Affairs — launches Thursday night with a screening of Ettore...
A team of Harvard officials looked to Yale as a model for the arts in a visit to campus on Monday. Several members of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts, including students and faculty, traveled to New Haven to examine up-close Yale’s way of organizing and supporting the arts on campus. Task Force members, who toured Yale facilities and met with graduate and...
Orpheus does not normally wield an electric guitar, but this weekend’s performance at the Whitney Theater is no traditional adaptation. This year’s season of the World Performance Project — a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — culminates in “Don’t Look Back,” a dance-musical interpretation of the Orpheus myth. The show, performed by the...
Tick, tock, tick, tock. The members of Yale Opera are counting down to this weekend’s performances of Maurice Ravel’s one-act operatic comedy, “L’heure espagnole” and Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Both were composed in 1911 and will be performed in a double feature at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. “L’heure espagnole”...
A photograph captures but a single moment in time, although viewers can deduce much about the environment in which it was taken and the message it intends to communicate. But as photographer Marion Belanger ART ’90 put it, “The photograph is, by nature, capricious. … There is no one reading of a photograph.” A graduate-student symposium entitled “Photographic...
The Whitney Humanities Center auditorium was packed last night as poets, critics, musicians and lovers of literature gathered to celebrate a new book within the Library of America series of the writings of Elizabeth Bishop. Professor J.D. McClatchy, who edits the Yale Review, introduced the event, acknowledging that while the guests had all come to discuss Bishop’s...
On the fourth floor of the Yale Center for British Art, a placard reads: “Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) wrote of the masculine as ‘active’ and the feminine as ‘passive’; it is thus possible to extend the creative act into the realm of the procreative.” Next to the placard are a depiction of the three graces, a traditional full-length portrait of a gentlewoman and...
At the Yale Repertory Theatre premiere of Oscar Wilde’s “A Woman of No Importance” this coming Thursday, the audience will — naturally, perhaps — focus on the melodrama. The enthralling tale of scandal in upper-class society will inevitably overshadow the weeks of preparation that came before opening night. But this is a unique production for both the Yale Rep...
One of the early maps of North America in Yale’s collection contains a mistake surprising to modern viewers: a mysterious “South Sea” connecting the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with the British trading meccas of China and India. While obviously inaccurate, the image reflects the excitement, exaggeration and endless possibility typical of European...
