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Large marble interior with chandeliers and arched ceilings. Large video display shows seated man with grey hair, glasses, white shirt, dark tie, and jacket.

Fortunoff Video Archive featured in "End of Testimony?," a new exhibit in Vienna

February 1, 2023
Recordings and objects from the collection of Yale Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies are on display in an international exhibit in Vienna.
Close-up view of a glass display glass that shows a small yellowed horizontal scroll with Japanese characters in black ink. The scroll is in a white frame. Sitting behind the frame on a raised surface is a miniature wooden pagoda and a photograph showing the underside of the pagoda and Japanese characters there that spell the pagoda maker's name

Beinecke Library adds earliest known printed text to permanent exhibit

January 25, 2023
A woodblock print of Buddhist prayers—dating from the eighth century—now sits alongside the fifteenth-century Gutenberg Bible, the first book-length work printed with movable time, in the Beinecke Library’s mezzanine exhibit.
Inside book pages showing marbled papers inside front and back covers. Photo on left page shows woman in black Turkish dress with green socks and blue shoes stepping up a ladder in a garden with greenery around her feet; photo at right shows face of young girl looking at camera with three yellow flowers in the foreground in front of her mouth.

Haas Family Arts Library acquires award-winning photography books

January 21, 2023
Visit Haas Family Arts Library for a peek at the newly acquired, prize-winning photo books from the New York Art Book Fair.
Painted ticket that shows five people in Victorian dress riding down a roller coaster from the mountains. Pine trees and birds are visible below them. To left is the name of the ride "Le Caucase: Porte des Ternes Porte Maillot". in brown and blue type across mountain range. On the right in red ink is the ticket stub for the ride with a drawings of a woman holding the printed pass.

Subjects and Objects: A curated view of the changing world of Slavic studies

December 14, 2022
This exhibition showcases the Slavic collections of Yale Library—objects, photographs, posters, and books acquired over the course of 126 years.

Video: What Are Dogs Doing in Eighteenth-Century Art?

December 8, 2022
What are dogs doing in eighteenth-century art? A historian explains, using works from the Lewis Walpole Library. View the lecture.
Table layout of 10 white cards that show swatches of color, ranging from blues, yellows, purple. In front of the standing cards are open plastic cylinders containing ground pigments in a range of colors, used to make paints. At lower left is a white paper with some brush strokes of sample colors--four green, four purple, and one yellow

Hands-on learning: Three student curators explore color in theory and practice

November 14, 2022
An inspiring art history class—taught with objects from special collections—leads to a colorful exhibition curated by three classmates.
Man in black overalls and yellow t shirt looks at a woman in a purple print dress sitting next to him.

Newly preserved Kathleen Collins masterwork will screen on Nov. 11

November 9, 2022
The film will be followed by an in-person Q&A with actress Seret Scott, who starred in the 1982 film.