Tag: Busch-Reisinger Museum
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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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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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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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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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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…