Discover the Arts at Yale

With two major art museums, a critically acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert halls, and world-renowned Schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music, Yale University is an internationally recognized center for the visual and performing arts.

Indeed, Yale was one of the first American universities to foster the arts. As one of the nation’s foremost institutions of higher learning, it has for over a century been the training ground for some of the country’s most distinguished actors, playwrights, artists, museum professionals, architects, musicians, and composers. Chuck Close, Norman Foster, Maya Lin, Richard Stoltzman, Meryl Streep, and Wendy Wasserstein are just a handful of the graduates of Yale’s professional schools of the arts who have made lasting contributions in their chosen fields.

FEATURED STORY

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Yale Gets NEH Grant to Create Website for Historic Photos

A Yale team headed by Professor Laura Wexler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to design an interactive website to display some 160,000 Depression-era images taken by U.S. government photographers.

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FEATURED EVENT

American Art: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Through December 31, 2011

This exhibition draws upon the Gallery’s renowned collection of American art to illuminate the diverse and evolving American experience from the time of the settlements of the 17th century to the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893.

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Recent Arts Stories

Yale Gets NEH Grant to Create Website for Historic Photos

Rare Manuscript Sheds Light on Elizabethan Education

Yale School of Architecture Dedicates House Students Built

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Arts Netcast

Lisa Kereszi: "Fantasies" and the transition from student to faculty

Max Saltonstall and Lisa Kereszi talk about the transition from Yale MFA student to Yale Art faculty and Kereszi's current projects.

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Yale Arts In The News

A Love, Updated, but Still Tragic

New York Times

'The Piano Lesson': Passing the Baton to a New Generation

Hartford Courant

Sneak Peek: Rude Mech's "The Method Gun" To Play Yale

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