Author Archives: Diana Mellon

“The ways people talk about art are not as complicated as the way we live our lives,” Jaret Vadera ART ’09 tells me. A neon pink tube curled into the word “poser” in cursive fluoresces pertly above his head. It is the only work of art on a long white gallery wall that faces the »

“Every instrument comes out of the mind of man,” said Reuben M. Koroma, band leader of Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, “…like a heartbeat.” On their debut album, “Living Like a Refugee,” the band’s singers use their voices to imitate inhuman sounds, too — like goopy soap suds (“Soda Soap”) or a vibrating guitar string »

Behind Green Hall lies the nucleus of the Yale School of Art, 353 Crown St. Beyond a candy-colored spectrum of vintage bicycles, and through a double meniscus of glass doors, a gallery overlooks The Pit — the painter’s equivalent of a gladiator’s arena. It is here that the School of Art’s MFA painting candidates, members »

Behind Green Hall lies the nucleus of the Yale School of Art, 353 Crown St. Beyond a candy-colored spectrum of vintage bicycles, and through a double meniscus of glass doors, a gallery overlooks The Pit — the painter’s equivalent of a gladiator’s arena. It is here that the School of Art’s MFA painting candidates, members »