It’s customary to describe the history of western art music as a progression of historical periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern. These periods form the basis of countless books, recordings, courses, radio programs, and so on. But they are the creation of historians and critics, not a depiction of the natural order of things. They are useful fictions that help us take the disorderly and contradictory sources that have come down to us, and turn them into a coherent story. If the boundary lines were drawn in different places, we might have different stories. In Boundaries of Romanticism, we highlight composers who stand (chronologically or stylistically) near the beginning or the end of the Romantic era. These include Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, and others. Each composer is represented by a musical manuscript, letter, or other item, such as an Austrian coin bearing Schubert’s likeness, or a program of a concert that Mahler conducted in Woolsey Hall.
Boundaries of Romanticism is one of three related exhibits at Yale in 2015; the others are The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860 at the Yale University Art Gallery, and ‘Illuminated Printing’: William Blake and the Book Arts at the Haas Family Arts Library.
Take a look at our online exhibit here...
Post on March 27, 2015 - 11:32am | 
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All are welcome to join us for an evening of dance and fun on April 8th. The Gilmore Music Library, the Yale University Library, and Yale Swing and Blues are proud to sponsor this event to (hopefully!) swing us into spring for good!
Most of the music at the event is from the Music Library's archives (featuring the Benny Goodman archive) and has recently undergone preservation treatment using funds donated to the Yale Library from Arcadia, a charitable fund, supporting charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment.
So come along and join us! What's in it for you besides fun?! A free swing dance lesson, amazing & unique film footage from the Music Library's archive, free cake, cheese & crackers, good company, and more! We hope to to see you there!
Post on March 27, 2015 - 11:14am |
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All are welcome to join us for an evening of dance and fun from 7:00-9:00 pm on April 8 in the L&B Reading Room in Sterling Memorial Library. The Gilmore Music Library, the Yale University Library, and Yale Swing and Blues are proud to sponsor this event to (hopefully!) swing us into spring for good!
Most of the music at the event is from the Music Library's archives (featuring the Benny Goodman archive) and has recently undergone preservation treatment using funds donated to the Yale Library from Arcadia, a charitable fund, supporting charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment.
So come along and join us! What's in it for you besides fun?! A free swing dance lesson, amazing & unique film footage from the Music Library's archive, free cake, cheese & crackers, good company, and more! We hope to to see you there!
Post on March 26, 2015 - 3:46pm |
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Victorious Secret: Elite Olympic Champions as Dancing Bikini Girls
Three framed mosaic triptychs by Angela Lorenz, 2012-2013
Installed March 23 - June 26, 2015 in the Sterling Memorial Library and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. Sponsored by The Bibliographical Press.
The Arts Library has been collecting Lorenz’s works in book format for over twenty years and holds over thirty examples of her artists’ books, which often use humor and word play to address social issues. In Victorious Secret, Lorenz addresses gender inequality through the lens of art history, discussing how elite Olympic athletes portrayed in mosaics circa 300 AD were in modern times first identified as “dancing bikini girls.”
Free and open to the public.
For more information: http://guides.library.yale.edu/victorioussecret
Post on March 23, 2015 - 11:36am |
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The spring 2015 issue of Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library is now online, featuring news and resources from around the Yale Library system: http://web.library.yale.edu/yul-publications
Post on March 20, 2015 - 5:10pm |
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Post on March 20, 2015 - 4:41pm |
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We are delighted to announce a book talk by Janice Nimura, the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back on April 16th, Thursday from 2-3:00 PM in the Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Hall. Sponsored by the East Asia Library. Light refreshments will be provided after the talk.
Post on March 19, 2015 - 8:00pm |
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Illuminated Printing: William Blake and the Book Arts
Monday, March 2, 2015 - Friday, September 18, 2015
William Blake (1757-1827) was a British poet, painter, engraver, and printer. Blake developed an unorthodox method of printmaking called relief etching, which he referred to as “illuminated printing.” Using this process, Blake created such powerful works as The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake’s practices of crafting a dialog between text and image and controlling all aspects of book production are reflected in the individualist spirit of today’s book arts. This exhibit includes examples from the Special Collections of the Haas Family Arts Library of work by contemporary artists who have been influenced by William Blake’s legacy.
This exhibition is a companion to the first major collaborative exhibition between the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art: The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860, on view at the Yale University Art Gallery from March 6 - July 26, 2015. The Haas Family Arts Library actively supports arts-area research by members of the Yale, national, and international communities.
This exhibition was curated by Patricia Guardiola as part of her project for the 2014-2015 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship.
Post on March 19, 2015 - 2:23pm |
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Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is now offering educational streaming video, a new service from the not-for-profit organization specializing in preservation and distribution of video and media art from the 1960s to the present. EAI has an extensive catalog of videos by contemporary artists as diverse as Merce Cunningham, Pipilotti Rist, Dan Graham, Eleanor Antin, Ryan Trecartin, and the Wooster Group. Streaming access is available for over 500 videos, a subset of EAI’s 3500 titles (the rest are available onsite in their New York viewing room). To access streaming video, browse the Artists page, or do an advanced search with the “available for educational streaming” button set to yes.
More sources of streaming video are on the Drama LibGuide.
Post on March 16, 2015 - 10:53am |
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Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:30 PM - 3:00 pm, Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), A001
This talk will provide an overview of Cooper's work using the nation's largest database of private insurance claims to analyze why health care spending on the privately insured is expensive. In 2012, Cooper and his colleagues worked with the Health Care Cost Institute to create a database of insurance claims for beneficiaries insured by Aetna, UnitedHealth, and Humana. The data runs from 2002 through 2011 and captures comprehensive spending data on one third of privately insured Americans, and roughly 5% of US GDP. The talk will examine the process of accessing data, using the 12 terabyte dataset, and the early conclusions from the work.
Zack Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Economics at Yale University and Director of ISPS Health, a program of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. His work is focused on examining the intersection of public policy heath care, and economics. In particular, Cooper's work focuses on the impact of competition and monetary and non-monetary incentives on health care providers' quality, prices, and productivity.
This talk is part of the Day of Data Spring Lecture Series.
Post on March 12, 2015 - 12:45pm |
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