Tag: Busch-Reisinger Museum

  • Nation & World

    The long, deep ties between Harvard and Germany

    In advance of Angela Merkel’s visit, the Gazette looked at a number of key episodes between Germany and Harvard throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

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    Shadow of bronze lion casts shadow on the wall at Busch Hall garden.
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    Visions pursued through darkest shadows

    “Inventur — Art in Germany, 1943‒55,” at the Harvard Art Museums through June 3, features work that has drawn scant attention in the United States.

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    "Street" by Louise Rösler.
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    Visual synesthesia

    The words “Folding, Refraction, Touch” provided a useful framework for the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans and other modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the German photographer.

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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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    Activating a new space

    A select group of Harvard students witnessed the installation of a kinetic sculpture in the Harvard Art Museums by contemporary German artist Rebecca Horn on Nov. 5.

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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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    Let there be light

    The glass-and-steel roof, the calling card of Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano, caps the expanded and renovated Harvard Art Museums and is the building’s defining feature.

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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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    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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    At Herbaria, a new career blossoms

    Museum exhibition designer Danielle Hanrahan always loved art and nature. A late-in-life career move to the Harvard Herbaria allowed her a chance to explore the latter.

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    The return of the murals

    Adolphus Busch Hall, once home to the Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, is amid a major renovation. Recently completed work includes restoration of two once-controversial artworks critical of fascism.

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    The art of architecture

    Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.

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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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    German art scholar named associate curator at Busch-Reisinger Museum

    Lynette Roth, a specialist in German art of the early 20th century, has been named the Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

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    Light Prop shines again

    This Saturday (July 21), one of the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s most unusual artworks will get a new lease on life.

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    Is democracy merry?

    An enlarged news photo, flaunting its rough pattern of halftone dots, shows a man in jeans, a military overcoat, and a fedora striding toward the camera. Judging by his wide grin he seems to be enjoying himself hugely, but his downcast eyes convey that it is a private enjoyment, not shared by the uniformed police…

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