March 25, 2024
Mary Christ unwrapping the plastic bubble wrap protecting a portrait of Yung Wing.
Enter almost any building on the Yale campus, and you’ll see stuff: portraits (many) on the walls, sculptures, artifacts—ranging from ten years ago to a hundred-plus years ago. Mary Christ (pronounced krist) took them all on when she arrived at Yale in the summer of 2023, as the inaugural campus art collection registrar. It’s her job to poke around in campus buildings, in order to find and inventory those objects all over Yale that many of us only half-notice.
