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Tag: Mark Rothko
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Nation & World
How much would you pay for a masterpiece?
To get at exactly how the art market and the public drive up the cost of fine art, the Gazette spoke with some experts in the field.
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Nation & World
A wall of color, a window to the past
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.
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Nation & World
A vivid life
The life and art of Mark Rothko are examined in the new play “Red,” to be performed at Harvard Art Museums.
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Nation & World
Up for debate
During two days of programming at the Harvard Art Museums, scholars, students, and the public explored the significance and innovative conservation of Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals. The events highlighted the murals’ return to public discourse and their new role as potential models for the treatment of aged and damaged art.
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Nation & World
Bustle, brass, and brio
In a weekend celebration, the public swirled through the galleries of the revitalized Harvard Art Museums.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
A light touch for Rothko murals
Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.
