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...museums at Harvard University together house the fourth largest collection of artwork in the world. But as plans continue to renovate the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard’s collections are experiencing declining rates of student attendance—despite the recent efforts by administrators and the Student Friends of the Harvard Art Museums to attract new visitors...
...problems with the slow-paced plans for the Fogg’s renovation are manifold. First, the museums must find places to store the vast collection of artwork while renovations are underway. “We don’t want to just close the door,” explains Benefield. “We have to keep serving the academic community...
...electronic music software designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20, fisher-price.com; Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo. Machover thinks formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year...
...wondrous cover of the first issue describes it as “an ob-literary zine, and “an experiment in experimentation.” Technically speaking, it is an almost 50 page funhouse of innovative artwork and writing on the concept of “the future.” The ’zine, which proudly included an essay by world-renowned critical theorist Slavoj Zizek, was neither distributed through University mail nor door-dropped, but was instead left in cafes and offices around Cambridge. Some adventurous members of Present! even left copies of the magazine...
Unfortunately, the situation in Iraq then deteriorated and shipments could not be arranged, Captain said. So the founding members extended the idea to importing jewelry, home décor, and artwork from other underdeveloped countries...