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June 3, 2024
Erin Carney, librarian at the Haas Family Arts Library, is the incoming co-chair of the LGBTQ Affinity Group at Yale.
man in white tunic with glasses bends over blue paper drawing with bamboo pen
March 12, 2024
Master Kyeongho Kim demonstrated his exacting methods—a meditative practice—for an audience in Sterling Memorial Library.
high-ceiled room with rectangle of suspended lights at half-level, orange carpets and desks. Shelves of books in alcove at right, student reading on couch at left with large green plant in foreground
January 9, 2024
“Something about the Nature of Architecture” celebrates the Haas Family Arts Library and Paul Rudolph’s iconic building.
18th century color print showing two peasant women in marketplace arguing, men on either side of them frowning, one covering ears, a small boy and dog sit with wicker baskets nearby.
November 1, 2023
On Nov. 16, print collectors and curators will meet in Sterling Memorial Library to discuss their collections of 18th- and early 19th-century British caricature and satiric prints.
Painting of woman hangs on brick wall. She sits at a desk with six books on surface. She has short wavy brown hair and wears.a blouse with pink, orange, white, red swirls and holds black glasses and a pen in her right hand.
July 3, 2023
Elga Wasserman is honored with a portrait in Bass Library for her role in supporting Yale’s transition to coeducation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Stage set with arabic script projected in white on black background. Man in Arabic dress stands with arms outstretched in front of animated image of a blue and yellow tree. Eleven people in long garments sit at his feet, six to his right and five to his left.
May 15, 2023
Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.
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.
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.