Arts-Area News

Artspace ephemera
July 7, 2016
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archives of Artspace, New Haven’s vibrant non-profit organization for contemporary art. Artspace is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and the archive will preserve its legacy of...
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
June 13, 2016
The 21st International Festival of Arts & Ideas descends on New Haven for a 16-day celebration of arts and culture.  This year’s festival, held from June 10th-25th, is comprised of performances, lectures, and exhibitions from a diverse and dynamic lineup of participants.  The festival’s mission...
Yale Center for British Art, fourth floor, Long Gallery following reinstallation, photograph by Richard Caspole
May 12, 2016
The Yale Center for British Art reopens this week after a multi-year project to conserve its iconic building designed by Louis I. Kahn. The galleries have been refreshed and new spaces for study and teaching have been created. Accessibility of the building has also been improved. The collection has...
Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night
April 29, 2016
Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the worldwide celebrations of his work, we now have streaming access to seventeen Globe on Screen videos via Drama Online. These productions are filmed live at the Globe Theatre in London, and most are new to us in streaming form. A...
Zaha Hadid, from Archivision
March 31, 2016
Six thousand new images from Archivision are now available for search and download, including Herzog & de Meuron’s DeYoung Museum, Taos Pueblo, and the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. These images, purchased by the Arts Library as a supplement to Artstor’s architecture holdings, are in...
Image of a carnation from The Language of Flowers
March 22, 2016
The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online catalog of publications about art, artists, cultural history, and theory and criticism of art. Drawing from numerous art libraries and institutes, the portal contains over 86,000 titles. Included among these are publications from the Online Scholarly...
Kelmscott-Goudy Press at RIT. Image courtesy of the Cary Graphic Arts Collections, RIT.
March 7, 2016
The Kelmscott-Goudy Press Legacy at Rochester Institute of Technology by Amelia Fontanel, Associate Curator, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection 3pm Lecture in Sterling Memorial Library (SML) lecture hall 4pm Printing Demonstration in The Bibliographical Press, L&B Room, SML In 1891 a simple iron...

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