Will Stern’s residential colleges be applauded in 30 years?

Stern pick incites debate Nora Wessel Yale Daily News September 5, 2008

“Could the choice of a traditional architect to build Yale’s two new residential colleges actually betray the University’s tradition?

“That’s what some critics are arguing one day after University President Richard Levin announced that he had tapped Robert A.M. Stern, the staid architect and dean of the School of Architecture, to design colleges 13 and 14.

“In choosing Stern, Levin picked tradition and — he argues — comfort over experimentation and pizazz. But some critics counter that the selection betrays Yale’s legacy of pushing the architectural envelope.

“‘I’m skeptical that these buildings will be applauded in 30 years,’ said Brent Ryan ’91, a professor of architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.”

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Recent Yale Architecture Grad on “Top Design”

Recent Yale Architecture Grad Student on Bravo’s Top Design:

Jennifer Newsom

GO JENNIFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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YDN on Osberg lawsuit

Osberg sues for readmission
Harrison Korn, September 3, 2008 Yale Daily News

“At 19 years old, Annabel Osberg plans to take the next year to pursue her passion for art by painting on her own. She also plans to use her time off to sue Yale for readmission to its graduate Masters of Fine Arts program.”

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Robert Stern to design new Yale colleges

“Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has been commissioned to design Yale’s 13th and 14th residential colleges….”

Stern to design new colleges Yale Daily News September 4, 2008

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A & A more sympathetic to surroundings than once thought

Yale Revelation: Renewal for a Building and Its Original Designer NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF New York Times August 27, 2008

“To postmodernists [Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building] represented the indifference to history and context that they saw as the Modernist movement’s greatest sin.

“These arguments were reinforced by the heartless renovations after the fire. Windows and skylights were boarded over; additional levels were stuffed between existing floors; large open studios were cut up into a warren of cramped, airless work spaces. The effect was suffocating, and it reflected an attitude of disrespect toward Rudolph that persisted until his death in 1997.

“In reopening these spaces Mr. Gwathmey shows us that the building was more sympathetic to its surroundings than once thought.”

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The Building That Won’t Go Away

In an age when much of what we build seems frighteningly insubstantial, there’s something satisfying about a building that will undoubtedly make a good ruin: a latter-day Stonehenge or Colosseum. Yale’s Art & Architecture Building, which looms over the corner of Chapel and York Streets, is just such a building.

The Building That Won’t Go Away Mark Alden Branch Yale Alumni Magazine February 1998

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Woman cuffed, booked for not paying library fines

A Wisconsin woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Twenty-year-old Heidi Dalibor told the News Graphic in Cedarburg that she ignored the library’s calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court. The incident cost Dalibor about $30 for the two overdue paperbacks. It cost her mother $172 to free her.

Woman cuffed, booked for not paying library fines Associated Press 8/21/08

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Reka Reisinger show in Hartford

‘Bathroom’ by Reka Reisinger (HANDOUT/ August 19, 2008)

Photographer Reka Reisinger opens a show tonight from 6 to 8 at the monthly Creative Cocktail Hour at Real Art Ways in Hartford.

Her show, “Cutouts,” has 12 images meant to show the lifeless synthetic quality of computer generated art. Cardboard cutouts of her image are put in familiar settings such as a vacation, a family portrait and a birthday.

Reisinger is from Budapest, Hungary, and a graduate of the Yale University School of Art. She lives in New York City.

Reka Reisinger: A Showing of Lifeless Art Donna Larcen Hartford Courant 8/21/08

More info here. And visit Reka’s official Site here.

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What’s up for the Yale Rep this season

Edge of One’s Seat: Yale Rep’s 2008-09 Season
By Richard Kamins Hartford Courant August 19, 2008

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What’s up for CT theaters this Fall season

2008 Theater Guide: Bard, ‘Boys’ Highlight Fall Season
By FRANK RIZZO | Hartford Courant August 21, 2008

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Demolition by Design

Stephen Vincent Kobasa

If only the building had been outrageous, or grotesque. Then it would have confronted the Rudolph design without draining it. Instead, we have this self-satisfied prudence that has infected all of Yale’s architectural exercises of late.

Still, it must be acknowledged that Gwathmey’s restoration of the interiors of the Rudolph building is moving and redemptive in equal measure, with the restored bridges and atrium spaces turned to glorious uses. Much—if not everything—can be forgiven, standing within.

Demolition by Design Stephen Vincent Kobasa New Haven Advocate 8/21/08

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3-museum exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings

Photos by John McAlister, found at MASS MoCA

“‘Nearly an acre of wall surface’ at [MASS MoCA] is currently being taken up by ‘wall drawings’ by Sol LeWitt, one-third of which are completed at present, according to Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, who organized a retrospective of the artist’s works that opens Nov. 16.

“The retrospective also takes place at Yale University Art Gallery, which has two wall drawings on view, and at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Mass., which will exhibit some sculpture and the more hangable type of drawings by LeWitt. The main event, however, will be at MASS MoCA.”

MASS MoCA Show to Feature Old Works With Fresh Paint
By DANIEL GRANT, August 20, 2008 Wall Street Journal

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Let Us Entertain You

“Everybody wants to build a hotel in New Haven,” he says, noting the addition of two new residential colleges at Yale, the new cancer center at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the relocation and consolidation of Gateway Community College to downtown, and a building boom in restaurants and retail downtown. “The level of economic activity in New Haven is growing.”…Keogh says that while new hotel activity is a good sign for the region’s economy, it could lead to overbuilding.

Renovations and new construction mark new momentum for city’s hospitality industry Steve Higgins Connecticut Business Journal 8/18/08

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Developers Have Plans For Coliseum Site

Gottesdiener’s Northland Investment Corp. is one of two upscale developers vying for a chance to recast the site of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum — imploded in 17 seconds in 2007, after a 35-year existence — as a dense urban neighborhood where people live, work, shop and watch plays at a new Long Wharf.

Conceptual proposals submitted by both Northland and Archstone anticipate a theater, residences, roof gardens, parking garages and office space. The city hopes to have a more specific proposal by the end of the year, Murphy said.

Developers Northland, Archstone Have Plans For New Haven Site Eric Gershon Hartford Courant 8/19/08

Another article here.

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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool

“Anna Ashton, Later Mrs Thomas Case” by Joseph Wright

“An exhibition in its final weeks at the Yale Center for British Art, ‘Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool,’ is the first to focus on this period of Wright’s career. The 80 works on view tell two stories: that of a young painter finding his niche, and that of a fast-growing northern city asserting itself as a cultural and economic hub.

“The show is part of a two-year celebration of culture in Liverpool (the city marked the 800th anniversary of its charter last year). It was organized by the Yale Center for British Art in conjunction with the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, where it made its debut in November.”

The Painter and the City: Parallel Tales of Growth KAREN ROSENBERG New York Times 8.18.08

See a slide-show of the exhibition

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