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Garbage Can

Garbage Can

Howard el-Yasin sees beauty where most do not. He sees it in blackened banana peels, old shoes and dryer lint. He sees it in coffee wrappers and latex and the...

Garbage Can

Howard el-Yasin sees beauty where most do not. He sees it in blackened banana peels, old shoes and dryer lint. He sees it in coffee wrappers and latex and the...

Work by Nadir Balan, courtesy of Nadir Balan and the New Haven Museum

War Paint

A man in a gas mask grips the handlebars of his twin-cylinder motorcycle and speeds past the shelling to deliver a general’s orders. A soldier wearing a gas mask and...

War Paint

A man in a gas mask grips the handlebars of his twin-cylinder motorcycle and speeds past the shelling to deliver a general’s orders. A soldier wearing a gas mask and...

Raising Voices

Raising Voices

Why should boys have all the fun? It was a question that rankled Tom Brand as a boy when he sang in the Choir of Men and Boys at Trinity...

Raising Voices

Why should boys have all the fun? It was a question that rankled Tom Brand as a boy when he sang in the Choir of Men and Boys at Trinity...

False and True

False and True

Rachel Hellerich creates extra-dimensional paintings. You’d be forgiven for not knowing exactly what that means, because, until you see her work—especially in person—it sounds unimaginable. But Hellerich’s right at home...

False and True

Rachel Hellerich creates extra-dimensional paintings. You’d be forgiven for not knowing exactly what that means, because, until you see her work—especially in person—it sounds unimaginable. But Hellerich’s right at home...

Good to Hear

Good to Hear

Every day, we brush sixteenth notes across our teeth, drum rhythms into our cellphones, tap songs onto our keyboards. Though it also makes music using some strange instruments, the Yale...

Good to Hear

Every day, we brush sixteenth notes across our teeth, drum rhythms into our cellphones, tap songs onto our keyboards. Though it also makes music using some strange instruments, the Yale...

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

Tall, slender wooden placards lean against the walls of the Yale University Art Gallery as if left there for a moment, about to be moved. They emphasize the temporary status...

No Place Like Home

Tall, slender wooden placards lean against the walls of the Yale University Art Gallery as if left there for a moment, about to be moved. They emphasize the temporary status...