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"Much Ado About Nothing," 1972, New York Shakespeare Festival (Delacorte Theatre), New York
December 17, 2013
Yale’s School of Architecture and School of Drama present “Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee,” a retrospective of the award-winning designer and Yale professor’s work in theater, opera, and dance. Since the 1960s, Lee has been one of the world’s most celebrated and influential set designers, renowned...
19th-century trade card, Leavitt & Brant (Berg Fashion Library)
December 16, 2013
The Berg Fashion Library is regularly updated with new online-exclusive content, including this weather-appropriate entry on “Figure Skating Dress and Costume.” The article surveys the history of skating wear from the seventeenth century to Sonja Henie, the Ice Capades, and famous fashion designers...
Carl Rollins at the Bibliographical Press
December 5, 2013
Yale's smaller exhibit venues were recently featured on Yale News.  The article covers several library exhibit venues: the Arts Library, Medical Library, Music Library, and Lewis Walpole Library.  The Yale-China Association is also featured.
November 11, 2013
The September issue of Vogue is now available online via the library’s access to the ProQuest Vogue Archive. This database includes every issue of Vogue back to 1892—that’s more than 2700 issues spanning over 440,000 pages. Browse by date or search by keyword for designers, photographers,...
Woodblock and printed illustration by J.W. Barber
November 4, 2013
Have you ever wondered what was behind the glass wall in the lower level of the Haas Family Arts Library?  That is the reading room for Arts Library Special Collections (ALSC), where anyone who registers can view rare, unique, and valuable materials that belong to the Arts Library.  In order to...
Winslow Homer, Autumn, 1877.
October 23, 2013
Artsy is an “online platform for discovering and collecting artwork.” Currently the site serves 50,000+ images by 11,000+ artists with a focus on contemporary art. In addition to the art market, Artsy strives to provide context to the artworks through essays, interviews with artists, curators, and...
Dress, Evening, by Irene, ca. 1935
October 9, 2013
The Berg Fashion Library brings together scholarly books and journals as well as reference works and critical writings on fashion history and theory. Search or browse more than 8000 images by place, garment type, theme, etc. The August 2013 update includes new journal content, entries on steampunk...

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