Yale Daily News

Music is old, old as the Paleolithic pounding of the first stone tools. The song is old, too — a few millennia, or 40. The […]

April 11, 2019

“Nature had used her talent to imitate art.” (Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.157–8) On the fourth floor of the Yale University Art Gallery, its newest exhibition reinterprets […]

April 11, 2019

This album should be played loud. “Alter/Native” was released this month by Zulfi –– aka Zulfiqar Mannan ’20. It explodes, celebrating manic youth, musing at […]

April 11, 2019

Amid the footsteps and murmurs of conversation that shift around the space, bouncing off walls and around corners, I hesitate. I step forward, turn around […]

March 29, 2019

In a bright room on the third floor of the Yale University Art Gallery hangs an untitled, unheralded and unbounded 1973 painting by Norman Lewis. […]

March 29, 2019

For most people, movies are an escape from reality. They give you characters to live through. They capture your passive attention. For a brief time, […]

March 29, 2019

“One of the reasons I paint black people,” artist Kerry James Marshall told National Public Radio, “is because I am a black person… There are […]

March 8, 2019

Seeing that this month’s New Music New Haven featured the illustrious Jane Ira Bloom, I worried that the usual roster of graduate-student composers would have […]

March 8, 2019

Aaron Copland occupies a special place in the canon of American music. Known during his life as the “dean of American composers,” Copland wrote a […]

March 8, 2019

You know those childhood films that you watch again as an adult and which are supposed to corrupt your childhood innocence? Well, this isn’t one […]

March 1, 2019

The well-conceived opera is uniquely interdisciplinary among classical art forms. It uses music to deepen the meaning of a text, connecting the work into a […]

February 22, 2019