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Tag: Arthur M. Sackler Museum
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Bustle, brass, and brio
In a weekend celebration, the public swirled through the galleries of the revitalized Harvard Art Museums.
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Students first
Keeping with its mission as a new type of teaching and learning museum, on Thursday evening the Harvard Art Museums welcomed its first visitors: University students.
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Art’s shining future
The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums reopen on Nov. 16 with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one shining glass roof.
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Art historian Seymour Slive, 93
Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard and one of the world’s leading authorities on 17th-century Dutch painting, died in June at the age of 93. Slive had been battling cancer, but was present at Harvard’s May Commencement, where he received an honorary doctor of arts degree.
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A giant jewel box, lit by the sky
The Harvard Art Museums will open its greatly expanded and renovated home this fall, aligning the Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger museums under a massive glass roof.
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Museum as study subject
Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum opened in 1903 as the Germanic Museum, but since then, in a restless shifting of fates that characterizes many museums, has experienced displacements in space, role, and identity.
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Peering into the Fogg
Harvard Art Museums officials offered an early look at the progress of the renovation and expansion project that will unite the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museums under one roof.
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A teaching treasure trove
As plans for renovating the Harvard Art Museums progress, officials offer a look at what the refurbished facility will hold.
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Pearls of Persian art
A generous donation by the late Norma Jean Calderwood — philanthropist, autodidact, and keen-eyed collector — brought a millennium’s worth of Islamic art to Harvard, some of which is now on display for the first time at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
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Jasper Johns, and a technique he loved
A new exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum profiling the print-inspired works of contemporary artist Jasper Johns was put together with the help of four Harvard undergraduates.
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An intimate body of work
An intimate exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum offers viewers a look at a body of largely unknown photographic work by one of the most versatile talents of the modern art movement in Germany.
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Casting an impression
Through studio sessions at the New England Sculpture Service, the course “Cast in Bronze: A Workshop in Exploring and Creating Bronze Sculpture” provided the opportunity not only to create bronze sculptures, but also to better understand the practice and craft of making art.
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An artful perspective
Museum educators are using their collections to help members of the Harvard community explore salient issues like creativity and leadership in new ways.
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When art advanced science
More than a masterful artist, Albrecht Dürer strongly influenced 16th-century science with cartographic and anatomical work that gets little attention from art historians.
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An artist who disrupted convention
Artists and scholars gathered at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Nov. 3 for a panel discussion on the work of 20th-century artist Romare Bearden. The event celebrated “Color and Construction: The Intimate Vision of Romare Bearden,” which runs through Dec. 9.
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Hide and seek
A new Harvard exhibit aims to challenge how things are categorized by delving into the University’s vast museum and archival collections.
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Art in the making
Barberini Faun, a rare plaster model at Harvard Art Museums, offers lessons in how ancient classical sculpture was restored in the 17th century.
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A focus on British art
A display of prints and engravings by several British artists from the early 19th century evokes the classical and the contemporary.
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The Fogg begins to rise
With most of Harvard Art Museums’ staffers and collections settled elsewhere, workers create a “state-of-the-art museum facility,” with plans to open in 2013.
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Artists and hard times
A Harvard Art Museum lecture series explores topics from multiple points of view, in this case concerning economic turmoil.
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Art as cultural backdrop
A series of lectures uses art objects to open windows into understanding eras’ cultures, histories, and social values.
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In their cups
Thomas Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, has made a career of finding and interpreting objects that hold the key to a fuller understanding…