Online Libraries

Think it’s impossible to find free books online? Think again. There are tons of online libraries that provide fiction, nonfiction and reference books at no charge. Here is a list of the best 25 places to read free books online.

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This Week @ YUAG

This week at the Gallery learn about the origins of the oversize print, take an Angles on Art tour, and enjoy a day of dance and discussions about the Baga D’mba.

Gallery Talk: “Concerning the Origins of the Big Print”

Wednesday 17, 12:20 PM

This talk will be presented by Larry Silver, the Farquhar Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania. Silver is one of the organizing curators of the current exhibition “Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian.”

On view through November 30, this exhibition assembles a diverse group of European prints from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century that share one common characteristic: uncommon scale. Produced for purposes ranging from propaganda to wallpaper, they often were intended as substitutes for works in more permanent and costly media, such as painting, sculpture, or tapestry. Subjects range widely: from Roman imperial processions to the pomp and circumstance of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I; from the lives of the Greek gods to the rowdy peasants of Reformation Germany; and from Renaissance painting to astronomy, warfare, and geography.

“In Honor of D’mba”

Saturday 20

9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Registration is required for this day of dance, learning, and reverence in honor of the Baga D’mba, a powerful Guinean sculpture that embodies the female spirit. LOCATION: Dixwell-Yale University Community Center. To register, please call 203.432.9426.

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Tour the African galleries with Frederick John Lamp, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Curator of African Art. LOCATION: Yale University Art Gallery

Angles on Art: Gallery Tours by Undergraduates

Thursday 18, 5:00 PM
“The Good Citizen in Art”
Esteban Tapetillo, MC ’09

Friday 19, 3:00 PM
“The Object and Experience in Modern Art”
Britta Kelley, BK ’09

Saturday, 20, 3:00 PM
“The Modern Body”
Bob Liles, TC ’11

Sunday, 21, 4:30 PM
“Connoisseurship: The Experience of Close Looking”
Emma Kronman, PC ’09

Masterpiece Tours: Guided Tours by Museum Docents

Saturday 20, 1:30 PM
Sunday 21, 1:30 PM

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Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu

The Glass Stampede: A building-by-building survey

In the past fifteen fat years, more than 76,000 new buildings have gone up, more than 44,000 were razed, another 83,000 were radically renovated—a rate of change that evokes those time-lapse nature films in which flowers spring up and wither in a matter of seconds. For more than a decade, we have awakened to jackhammers and threaded our way around orange plastic netting, calculating that, since our last haircut, workers have added six more stories to that high-rise down the block. Now that metamorphosis is slowing as the economy drags. Buildings are still going up, but the boom is winding down. Before the next one begins is a good time to ask, has this ferment improved New York or eaten away at the city’s soul?

The Glass Stampede Justin Davidson NYMagazine 9/7/08

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Author Gives Voice to Artists’ Silent Muses, Their Wives

Librado Romero/The New York Times

As artists in the second half of the 19th century shifted from painting historical, mythological and religious subjects to everyday life, they looked for a new kind of model. For the first time, Ms. Butler said, artists used the same model — often a wife or lover — over and over and over again in different paintings and in different scenes.

Author Gives Voice to Artists’ Silent Muses, Their Wives Patricia Cohen NYT 9/3/08

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Bloomberg review of new A&A Building

After a marathon 15 months of construction and $126 million, the airless fortress of yore feels almost benign. Light pours in through new windows, washing new white ceilings that conceal a low-energy air-conditioning system. Custom replica light fixtures handsomely dispel the ghastly pallor of fixtures that Rudolph favored.

If anything, the restoration is a bit too reverent (even the ghastly orange carpeting is back). Yet this is the smallest of quibbles, given how difficult Rudolph made the restorers’ job. Thankfully, the architecture refuses to play dead.

Yale Restores Architecture Building, Love and Hated ’60s Icon James S. Russell Bloomberg 8/28/08

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Lia Halloran, “Dark Skate”

Dark Skate/Backyard, Courtesy DCKT Contemporary

Lia Halloran is not your typical skater girl. The daughter of a scientist, she was featured in Thrasher magazine at age 16, and went on to get an M.F.A. from Yale University’s department of painting and printmaking. These cosmic forces collided when she received a grant to study the night sky with scientists in Chile in 2000.

Lia Halloran, “Dark Skate” Time Out New York Sept 4-10, 2008

Check out some of Halloran’s work at DCKT Contemporary here.

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Hawaiian Modern

“Just around the corner from Old Campus, a Hawaiian paradise awaits students looking for refuge from a rainy afternoon.

“The Yale University School of Architecture Gallery is — until Oct. 24 — housing an exhibit entitled ‘Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff.’ The exhibition was designed and guest-curated by Dean Sakamoto, a man who is not only an award-winning architect in his own right, but also a critic and director of exhibitions for the Yale School of Architecture and a Morse residential fellow.”

Aloha ‘Modern’ majesty Lauren Motzkin Yale Daily News September 12, 2008

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Press still talking about Shvartz

Yale’s Enduring Shame: A miscarriage of administrative justice.
By Candace de Russy National Review Online

“‘Performance artist’ Pia Lindman is the Yale instructor who authorized and guided Aliza Shvarts’s proposed ‘abortion art’ project for a senior art show in the 2007-2008 school year. Yale has once again engaged Lindman to teach during this academic year, to the university’s enduring shame.”

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Archinect: Yale School of Architecture

Trying to get an idea of what it’s like to be a student at the Yale School of Architecture? Check out Archinect: Yale School of Architecture (Kyle) blog–part of the Architect School Blog Project.

“The Archinect School Blog Project – We have recruited representatives from a collection of architecture programs around the world to maintain blogs documenting their experiences and discoveries from each institution. The goal of this unprecedented endeavor is to provide a voyeuristic view into the environments of some of the most intriguing academic institutions for architecture.”

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Van Gogh draws record #’s to YUAG

Two paintings, infinite buzz
Nora Wessel Yale Daily News September 8, 2008

“’There have been none like this — none at all.’

“In two years as a Yale University Art Gallery employee, Ralph Aiello had never seen the numbers he saw the past three months.

“’It’s a steady flow every day,’ the gallery guard said.”

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For many, traditional architecture makes Yale special

“Every year when Yale’s incoming freshmen receive their residential-college assignments, there are two words they dread: Morse and Stiles. In the early sixties, Yale hired Eero Saarinen ’34 to design two ‘radically different’ colleges. Morse and Stiles — his work — certainly are different. But very few students want to live in them. No building can be called a success if its occupants reject it. In architecture, people matter. For many, traditional architecture is part of what makes Yale special.”

Harden: Stern offers elegance over absurdity Yale Daily News Nathan Harden September 8, 2008

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This Week @ YUAG

“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian” opens

Tuesday 9, 10:00 AM

“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian” assembles a diverse group of European prints from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century that share one common characteristic: uncommon scale. Produced for purposes ranging from propaganda to wallpaper, they often were intended as substitutes for works in more permanent and costly media, such as painting, sculpture, or tapestry. Subjects range widely: from Roman imperial processions to the pomp and circumstance of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I; from the lives of the Greek gods to the rowdy peasants of Reformation Germany; and from Renaissance painting to astronomy, warfare, and geography.

Gallery Talk: “Fair Aesthetics: The Context of an Indian Artist”

Tuesday 9, 4:00 PM

In this talk, Indian artist Sumitro Basak will explore the aesthetics of melas, or Indian village fairs. Melas showcase a diverse mix of modern and traditional artifacts and images, and are a space of collective gathering, consumption, and entertainment. Melas have a long history in India and have constantly changed with the times—incorporating everything from nationalistic politics to Bollywood. Basak will show how the visual languages found at melas provide the context for his own work as a contemporary Indian artist. His talk will be accompanied by a slide show, featuring photographs (many of which he has taken in his travels to melas) as well as his own paintings.

Lecture Series: “Screencasts: Cinema as Medium in Contemporary Art”

Thursday 11, 5:00-7:00 PM

Artist Laurel Nakadate, M.F.A. 2001, presents her work in photography and video. Followed by the lecture “Object Relations: Laurel Nakadate and Feminism after Raunch Culture,” presented by William Kaizen, Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Film Screening, “Day Night Day Night”

Friday 12, 6:30-9:30 PM

A Film Screening of “Day Night Day Night” by Julia Loktev, featured in “Screencasts: Cinema as Medium in Contemporary Art,” will be shown at 212 York Street, Room 106.

Family Program:  Stories and Art

Sunday 14, 1:00-2:00 PM

The Gallery invites families to learn more about works of art in “Stories and Art.” Yale students and Gallery staff relate folktales and myths from across the globe to works of art in the Gallery’s collection. All ages are welcome, and drawing materials will be provided for older children. No registration is required; please meet at the information desk.

Angles on Art: Gallery Tours by Undergraduates

Friday 12, 3:00 PM
“In Search of Form and Figure in Art” will be presented by Lian Walden, TD ’09

Saturday 13, 3:00 PM
“Evolution of Sculpture through the Twentieth Century” will be presented by Elyse Nelson, MC ’09

Sunday, 14, 3:00 PM
“Contextual Text: The Reading of Art” will be presented by Carina del Valle Schorske, ES ’09

Sunday, 14, 4:30 PM
“Not Quite Right: The Peculiar in Art” will be presented by Elissa Dunn, BK ’09

Masterpiece Tours: Guided Tours by Museum Docents

Saturday 13, 1:30 PM
Sunday 14, 1:30 PM

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Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu

Yale Art Galleries reaching out to Elm City residents

At YUAG, a Starry Night
Esther Zuckerman Yale Daily News September 5, 2008

“You can think of [the British Art Center] as the museum version of a community center.”
-British Art Center Public Relations Coordinator Ricardo Sandoval

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Yale’s highly secretive selection process for choosing architect

Decision made by inner circle Thomas Kaplan Yale Daily News September 4, 2008 – Thomas Kaplan

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The colleges likely will not compromise Yale’s traditional look

“The colleges likely will not compromise Yale’s traditional look, which favors a Gothic style, Mr. Stern says. The layout of the new buildings will closely resemble those of James Gamble Rogers, who in the 1930s designed the bulk of Yale’s colleges, whose arched entries open to grassy quadrangles, surrounded by dorm rooms. ‘He set a very high bar,’ says Mr. Stern. ‘But the new colleges will try to create that same sense of community that’s worked so well.’”

Yale Taps Stern for Major Project
September 4, 2008 – C. J. Hughes – Architectural Record

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