Please join us for an open house celebrating Zora Neale Hurston at Beinecke Library, in celebration of the run of Hurston’s play Spunk at Yale Repertory Theatre. Objects on view in Beinecke’s reading room will include manuscripts donated by Hurston to Yale, letters from Hurston to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, and other friends, portraits of Hurston, first editions of Hurston’s books, and more.
In commemoration of Albertus Magnus College’s centennial year, Beinecke presents a drop-in open house display of collection materials related to the history of the College and to its namesake, St. Albert the Great. Materials will include editions of works by and about St. Albert the Great, photographs and documents related to Albertus’ 100-year history, and materials documenting some of the Prospect Hill homes that were acquired and repurposed by the school.
Community Open House
Saturday, October 4 2025
1:00–4:00PM
This special Mondays at Beinecke session will feature the co-curators of the new exhibition, “Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan,” Haruko Nakamura and Yoshitaka Yamamoto.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N7wPya27TmiH69gPn8-M7w
This special Mondays at Beinecke session will feature the co-curators of the new exhibition, “Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books,” Bill Landis and Jessica Pigza.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MBTJtoXRQjmZ3K7mReK5Kw
Presented by the Nahuatl Working Group and the Latine Arts and Activism Working Group.
In this presentation, Yale graduate students representing working groups sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center will share objects from the Beinecke that showcase just some of the Latine voices in the collections that their research at the library seek to highlight, locally and globally.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vzq9zhcUQEe6DHPtTDXvWw
There will be a joint opening reception for two new exhibitions at Beinecke Library: Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan and Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books.
Known primarily as a caricature artist, Thomas Patch (1725-1782) in fact engaged in a much wider array of activities. He was a landscape painter, experimental printmaker, and a dealer of antiquities and old master paintings. He was also among the first scholars of early Renaissance art. This exhibition will explore the many aspects of Patch’s art, life, and associations with the British community of diplomats, tourists, artists, and collectors in Italy.
Curated by Hugh Belsey, Independent Scholar
The Windham-Campbell Lecture is a central feature of the annual Windham-Campbell Prize Festival and is delivered each year by a distinguished writer on the topic “Why I Write.” This year, Ghanaian poet and writer Kwame Dawes shares insights into his craft and creative process. The annual lectures are published in extended form by Yale University Press in its Why I Write series.
On September 16th, artists Mohamad Kanaan and Rayyane Tabet will be conversation about Mohamad’s recent project investigating two medieval Arabic texts: Qazwini’s Wonders of Creation (Aja‘ib al-makhluqat), and al-Katib’s Encyclopedia of Pleasure (Jawami al-Ladhdhah). In this talk, Kanaan will discuss his work experimenting with a new interdisciplinary approach for medieval manuscript study, considering how to read, analyze, and visualize premodern Arabic literature critically and challenge how we look at language and archive through contemporary resonances in visual art.
