In celebration of the Yale University Art Gallery’s acquisition and installation of Maren Hassinger’s Monument (Pyramid) (2022), the artist joins Margaret Ewing, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her groundbreaking work. Underrecognized until recently by museums, Hassinger has worked steadily in sculpture, installation, and performance, becoming one of the leading artists of our time.
We create and use digital stuff all the time - photos, videos, documents - so much that it can be hard to manage. Beinecke Library digital archivist Alice Prael will share tips to help you organize and save your digital files for the long term. For more details, see the NHFPL calendar: https://nhfpl.libcal.com/event/13840274.
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954, 35mm, 124 mins)
Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943, 35mm, 98 mins)
The Beginnings of Bebop (Willie Ruff, 1981, 16mm, 26 mins)
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/3ZOTz6T
Brass returns to the Beinecke to present their 35th concert of the Marble and Brass series, featuring music chosen to show off the outstanding acoustics of the space, as well as the virtuosity of brass instruments!
The Quilters (2024), directed by Jenifer McShane, follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum security prison in a small town in Missouri. In tracking several quilts from design to completion, audiences come to know these men, witnessing their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride as they create something beautiful in this windowless sacred space, deep within the prison walls. The film was recently shortlisted for the Documentary Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.
A delicious resolution for 2025: feast on local food history!
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2025 is the 100th anniversary of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and the 50th anniversary of Claire’s Corner Copia, two iconic establishments that exemplify the extraordinary history of restaurants and other food businesses in New Haven. There is no better contemporary guide to New Haven’s historic foodways than Colin M. Caplan, a New Haven native, architectural designer, historian, author, tour operator and pizza guru.
All are welcome to a special one-day display of highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Freedom Movement on view for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room. The 2025 display will be on Sunday, January 19.
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