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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.
black and white photo shows shirtless woman with short hair and the words "Title IX" written on her back. She is facing away from camera, holding papers in her hand. To her right and looking off and to the right is a woman wearing a suit and open necked blouse. Blurred backs of heads of unidentified individuals are in the foreground and on the wall hangs a poster for Yale Women's Soccer.

Online exhibit documents triumphs and trials of Yale’s first women athletes

November 9, 2022
By 1979, Yale had 13 women’s varsity teams—and they struggled for their share of resources and support.
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.
Colorized photograph of two men looking at camera. One on left wears blue satin suit with white shirt and blue satin tie sitting on a simple white couch with one arm draped across the back support and the other hand at his chin. He has dark short curly hair and a goatee. The other has short cropped hair, plastic rimmed glasses and green shirt with brown shoulder patches. He rests his chin on both hands. There's a silver linked bracelet on his right wrist.

New voices added to Yale Library's collection of music oral histories

November 8, 2022
Two gospel artists—Donald Lawrence and Vincent Bohanan—will be filmed in interviews this month.
Desert scene showing horizon with wooden sign reading "Rio Grande" and a blue 1950s Chevrolet with open door and a man in short sleeve shirt with back to camera looking out at scene from back of the car.

Yale Film Archive seeks alumni home movies

October 14, 2022
“Home movies are unique by definition,” says Managing Archivist Brian Meacham—and he would like to have more in the Yale Film Archive’s collection.
Bald man wearing blue shirt and dark blue zippered vest sits looking to side, black and white photograph of jazz musicians and Duke Ellington sit in front of him, and photograph of man when younger holding acoustic bass is behind him on wall, next to another photo showing a man playing a trumpet

Library celebrates Willie Ruff ’53 and the Conservatory without Walls

October 11, 2022
Oct. 14 library events launch a year-long celebration of jazz musician and filmmaker Willie Ruff and the Duke Ellington Fellowship’s 50-year anniversary
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