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The International Festival of Arts & Ideas

The 21^st 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 10^th-25^th, is comprised of performances, lectures, and exhibitions from a diverse and dynamic lineup of participants. The festival’s mission, “to create an internationally renowned festival in New Haven of the highest quality with world-class artists, thinkers and leaders…” promotes uniquely international and arts-rich programming.

Yale Center for British Art Reopens

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.

Celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th!

Coinciding with the 400^th 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.

Module Ten of Archivision images added to Artstor

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 Artstor along with the previous nine modules—bringing you close to 3 million images in total.

Getty Research Portal™

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 Catalogue Initiative, a Getty Foundation program that helps museums create multimedia, web-based collection catalogues.

3/10: The Bibliographical Press spring lecture

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

3/4: Yale/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

The Arts Library will be hosting a Yale/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 4, from 5-8 pm.

With 5,077,437 articles in English and counting, Wikipedia is the world's largest encyclopedia. It is free and crowd-sourced, but depends on the interests of those who contribute. As a result, some topics are underrepresented or absent – for example, many women and women artists. Content is skewed by a lack of feminist participation. Let's change that.

An American in Paris: The Beaux-Arts Education of Shepherd Stevens

Exhibition on view March 1 - September 18, 2016

Master Papermaker Amy Jacobs to speak at School of Art on 2/23

Location: 36 Edgewood Room 204 | Time: 1:30pm

Amy Jacobs, of Dieu Donne papermill in New York City, will discuss contemporary practices that push the boundaries of papermaking by discussing projects produced in collaboration with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Do Ho Suh, James Siena, and Suzanne McClelland. Projects that include Dieu Donne papers can be seen at the Arts Library and the Beinecke Library.

Here are a few examples that you can view on your own:

Haas Family Arts Library

Exhibition: Everything is Dada

“Everything is Dada” opened on February 12^th at the Yale University Art Gallery. Featuring works by Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Beatrice Wood, the exhibition celebrates the centennial of the Dada movement. The exhibition will be on view until July 3^rd.

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