Tag: Thomas W. Lentz

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    Harvard Art Museums director named

    Harvard University Provost Alan Garber announced the appointment of Martha Tedeschi as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, beginning in July.

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    Lentz to step down

    After successfully rebuilding the Harvard Art Museums, and more than a decade at the helm, Director Thomas W. Lentz will step down on July 1.

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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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    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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    Hanging a welcome sign for art

    Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Harvard Art Museums, led a panel discussion about the role of the university art museum as a laboratory for learning in an academic setting and in the broader cultural ecosystem.

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    More art sees the light

    A new gallery at the Harvard Art Museums will display art from various other University institutions.

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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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    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.

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    Artful balance

    Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev spoke at Harvard about her work with exhibit “dOCUMENTA (13,” launching a new annual program on curatorial practice.

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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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    A 21st-century campus

    Supporting the development of a robust campus, one that enhances Harvard’s mission of innovative teaching and learning, while simultaneously fostering connections across the University and the broader community will be an important goal of The Harvard Campaign.

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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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    Art Museums gifted ‘outsider art’

    The Harvard Art Museums received a gift of 38 drawings, paintings, and sculpture from Didi and David Barrett’s 20th-century collection of American self-taught, folk, and outsider art.

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    When three is also one

    The renovated and expanded facility of the Harvard Art Museums eventually will link the University’s collections under one roof.

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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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