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...seven-year term as director, he travelled around the country to find support for a major new addition to the museum, which President Bok tentatively approved last week, a month after he called it off. This term, he is teaching a popular course on Dutch masters of the 17th century, otherwise known as "Cigars...
Holland in the 17th century was a painter's dream, where art was bought and sold in the public marketplace. Collecting was popular among the middle classes, and it was not rare to find paintings throughout the rooms of farm houses or in the local bakery. The Dutch favored landscapes because they were familiar, and most 17th century masters away from allegorical subjects. The universal demand for art prompted a great outgoing of works, and it is little wonder that historians have been slow at sorting out the artists While Ruisdael has been one of the neglected landscapists...
...paintings and drawings of Ruisdael at the Fogg help us place him into perspective among Dutch masters of the 17th century, but the repercussions of his genius go far beyond Haarlem. Amsterdam or Egmond of the 1660s or '70s. The Ruisdeal exhibition proves that the Fogg continues to champion the first-two-definitions of "mu-se-um," and--especially with plans for the addition alive again--the third: "something that resembles a museum...
After hearing several hours of testimony, the panel of three state building inspectors state that they saw "no imminent peril to life," and determined that the prisoners could remain in the jail, located on the 17th through 20th floors of the Middlesex Country Courthouse building in Cambridge, if the country maintains a 24-hour firewatch by hiring guards whose sole duty would be to patrol the halls watching for fires...
...same old story, the same old song-and-dance. A mediocre Princeton women's basketball team rolled into the IAB Saturday evening, hoping to improve its lackluster 7-11 mark. Harvard, hospitable as ever, put up little resistance, as the Tigers handed them their 17th loss in 19 games this season...