Fogg Museum

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Richard Ketchen working on a clock.

A faithful keeper of time

For the past 30 years, Richard Ketchen has cared for and repaired some of Harvard’s oldest and most historic clocks

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DateMarch 5, 2020

Curious visitors who turn left off the Harvard Art Museums’ elevators on the building’s fourth floor are greeted by the Forbes Pigment Collection, a floor-to-ceiling wall of color compiled from about 1910 to 1944 by the former director of the Fogg Museum.

A wall of color, a window to the past

Forbes pigment collection serves as teaching tool, resource, and even artwork

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DateSeptember 17, 2015January 5, 2018

Minga Claggett-Borne of Cambridgeport likes the "sense of lightness" that the new design of the Harvard Art Museums provides (photo 1). Harvard alum and Cambridge resident Yi-An Huang (photo 2) visits on Sunday with his mother, Angela Huang, and his children, Caedmon, 3, and Aletheia, 11 months. Welcoming visitors was Harvard Art Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz (from left, photo 3), Harvard Provost Alan Garber, Cambridge City Manager Richard Rossi, and David Nee, a fifth-year graduate student in the English Department who read "Vermeer" by Tomas Tranströmer.

Bustle, brass, and brio

In weekend celebration, public swirls through revitalized Art Museums

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DateNovember 16, 2014

Harvard students swarmed a special preview of the renovated Harvard Art Museums, which unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and features works by Mark Rothko (photo 2) Untitled (Harvard Mural sketch), 1962. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., NGA1986.43.168, TL41325.1. © 2014 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Students first

Renovated Harvard Art Museums’ doors open to hundreds of young guests

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DateNovember 7, 2014

A new 205,000-square-foot museum building will open Nov. 16, bringing together the Fogg Museum, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and the Busch-Reisinger Museum under a magnificent, shining glass roof designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.

A giant jewel box, lit by the sky

Harvard Art Museums will open a greatly expanded and renovated home this fall

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DateMay 29, 2014

The fresco was created in 1933 by Harvard graduate and realist painter Lewis Rubenstein and his collaborator, Italian-born artist Rico Lebrun, as a teaching tool for students eager to observe firsthand the art of fresco painting. Here, conservators restore some of the fresco's details inside the museum.

Art for viewers’ sake

Long-hidden mural will be front and center in revamped Harvard Art Museums

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DateApril 16, 2014

This 1958 photo shows a worker at Adolphus Busch Hall on Kirkland Street changing the name of Harvard's Germanic Museum to the Busch-Reisinger Museum — an outward sign of the museum's shifting identities in the 20th century. On paper, the official name change came in 1950.

Museum as study subject

Discussion examines Busch-Reisinger’s Teutonic genesis, inclusive evolution, and upcoming rebirth

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DateMarch 6, 2014April 18, 2019

"My message is this is going to be a very different kind of art museum," said Harvard Art Museums director Thomas W. Lentz (left), who led a tour with Charles Klee, the principal at the architectural firm Payette, which is collaborating with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop on the renovation and expansion project (photo 1). Among the features in Renzo Piano's design is a glass rooftop, a giant skylight that will diffuse light down through the building’s new central circulation corridor, adjacent galleries, and onto the Calderwood Courtyard (photo 2). The exterior is a combination of both the modern and traditional (photo 3).

Peering into the Fogg

New spaces for Harvard Art Museums reflect fresh ideas

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DateSeptember 13, 2013May 2, 2019

Elizabeth Jones and fellow conservation staff member John Washeba at work in the Fogg’s conservation lab, c. 1950.

Elizabeth Jones, 94, former conservator at Fogg

Served 22 years as head of the Conservation Department

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DateAugust 7, 2013

An artist's rendering of the Fogg Museum's courtyard at the Harvard Art Museums, which is currently undergoing extensive renovation.

A teaching treasure trove

Art Museums’ renovated facility will encourage contact with collections

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DateFebruary 21, 2013March 13, 2019

At Herbaria, a new career blossoms

Curatorial assistant left the art world for the natural world

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DateApril 19, 2012July 24, 2019

Starting in 1636, Harvard officials decided structure by structure what to construct. But somewhere along the way, the built environment began to have a reverse effect, influencing how faculty, students, and staff behaved and interacted in daily life. The resulting campus developed what could be called “the Harvard look.”

The art of architecture

Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history

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DateFebruary 16, 2011March 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based artist Liz Glynn ’03, this year’s Sert Practitioner, created a witty replica of a Le Corbusier chair — in concrete — on display at the Carpenter Center through Feb. 20. It’s called “On the Museum’s Ruin (Morris Hunt – Corbusier – Piano),” 2011.

The master’s chair

Visiting artist gets help from students on ‘Corbusier Furniture Project’

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DateFebruary 2, 2011April 12, 2019

Deborah Martin Kao spoke on Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) at the first event in this year’s series of In-Sight Evenings at the Harvard Art Museums. Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, called Stieglitz “an artist who is bigger than life.”

When photography became art

Series opens with discussion of the ever-inventive Stieglitz

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DateOctober 5, 2010April 30, 2019

Washington Allston, a name to remember

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DateNovember 1, 2007

Oberhuber, curator and professor, dies, 72

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DateOctober 11, 2007

Provocative Civil War exhibit at Fogg to coincide with inauguration

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DateOctober 4, 2007

Community finds itself drawn to Harvard museums

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DateSeptember 20, 2007

Memorial services

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DateSeptember 20, 2007

Memorial services

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DateSeptember 13, 2007

The ‘Last Ruskinians’: Detail, detail, detail

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DateApril 5, 2007