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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 8:00am to Sunday, September 1, 2024 - 8:00pm
The visual language of textiles is universal and multivarious, expressed through weaving, knitting, quilting, embroidery, and basketry. The works in this exhibit exemplify the different motives that artists have in using textiles as a focal point or as a point of departure in their creative practice. These objects were made to be experienced intimately—like the experience of wearing clothing—by an individual reader. In some works, the slowness of making is present. The artist invites you to take time to experience different textures and handmade details. In other works, artists embrace the
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 8:30am to Sunday, August 11, 2024 - 5:30pm
In an increasingly secular world, one might question the relevance of illuminated, handwritten religious manuscripts. This exhibition invites you to explore the wisdom of this age-old tradition, opening doors to imaginative ways to incorporate spirituality into hectic daily routines. It features the works of Master Kyeongho Kim alongside hand-written sacred texts from Yale Library’s collection, representing Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 12:00am to Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Mindscapes tells a story about mental health—its visibility, classification, and treatment—through the archival and visual art collections of the Medical Historical Library. Instead of a sweeping grand narrative of medical progress, Mindscapes presents a constellation of short stories that illuminate shifting cultural attitudes and scientific approaches to mental health over time. At stake in these stories are challenging, contested topics around mental health that intersect with Yale School of Medicine’s own histories. Two additional cases in the Historical Library, curated by Erin Sommers (
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 12:00am to Sunday, July 7, 2024 - 12:00am
Note: Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information. An exhibition exploring extraordinary materials collected by Walter and Linda Evans now in the Beinecke’s care, “Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington” celebrates three towering figures of Black history, art and culture: Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington. The Evans collections together bring political and cultural history into close engagement with arts and letters. These collections and the figures they feature demonstrate powerful ways creative work may serve as a form of social justice
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 8:00am to Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 5:00pm
“City Rewritten: The Oak Street Connector and Urban Renewal in New Haven” explores the effects of the formative era of urban renewal on New Haven’s urban landscape and social history. Urban renewal was a progressive vision aimed at revitalizing a city’s economy, beautifying the urban landscape, removing residents from substandard living conditions, and promoting racial integration. However, historians and urban planners have largely viewed the policy as a failure, one that disproportionately displaced impoverished Black people and reinforced patterns of segregation. From the mid-1950s to the
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 12:00am to Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 5:00pm
“Anne Boleyn: Life and Legend” explores the extraordinary figure of Anne Boleyn (1501 or 1507?–1536) as well as the dramatic and changing world she lived in. Her story has captivated audiences from the contemporary Tudor court of 1536 to the twenty-first century. Anne was an influential and modern woman, navigating the constraints of a patriarchal society to find agency. Anne and Henry VIII’s (1491–1547) affair led him to break from Catholicism and establish the Church of England. Anne married Henry and was crowned Queen in 1533. Their marriage would produce a daughter, the future Queen
Friday, September 22, 2023 - 8:00am to Friday, June 28, 2024 - 5:00pm
Art historians, curators, and connoisseurs often pose the question, Is it any good? evoking a sense of quality manifest in canonical works of art. By contrast, when building a collection of 18th-century prints for research, library founders W.S. and Annie Burr Lewis envisioned an essentially archival visual collection. Yet, aesthetic, material, and technical attributes are integral to understanding the power of visual art and artifacts to communicate the histories they document. Asking Is it any good? This exhibition explores the intersections of quality and documentary value. For the Lewises
Black background with digitized green lettering that reads "From DOS to Qiskit"
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 12:00am to Monday, May 6, 2024 - 12:00am
“From DOS to Qiskit: Turning Entanglement into Quantum Computation”—the 2023–2024 Model Research Collection—is a manifestation of a researcher’s process of investigation of a topic expressed through a collection of library resources. The selection models the breadth and depth of Yale University Library. Dr. Florian Carle of the Yale Quantum Institute invites you to discover how humans have used quantum theory, and in particular its implications for processing information in novel ways. In addition to the collection of books selected, multiple displays and events will be held, showing the