Art
Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes
The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes's typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends.
Beinecke Library
Art
Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem
Yale University's Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes's collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.
Art
A Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance in Maps, Manuscripts, and Art
Gather Out of Star-Dust at Yale University's Beinecke Library is a building-wide exhibition of over 300 rare artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance.
Books
Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers
Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.
Art
Ephemera from the East German Underground
Through zines sneaked hand-to-hand and punk performances in private apartments, an underground art movement formed beyond the censors in East Germany.