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...will cost around $1 million. Lowell’s bells arrived at Harvard from Russia nearly 80 years ago. The 18 bronze giants are over 100 years old, with one dating back to the 17th century. The Harvard delegation, comprised of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos, returned from Russia last night...
...remained at Harvard for nearly 80 years. Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August. The delegation—consisting of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos—visited the foundry last week to inspect the casts for the replacement bells. The group also attended several ceremonies over the weekend and is expected to return March 21. According to Buffington...
...bells’ intricate iconography. A Russian foundry that a Harvard delegation visited last summer will duplicate the bells and send them back to Lowell. If all goes according to plan, the exchange will happen in summer 2008, according to Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist, Charles R. Crane, gave the bells...
...Buffington said the Soldiers Field Road building was too far away from the center of the Allston campus to be considered as a principal art space...
...currently planning for that space only to be swing space,” Buffington said. “The plan was always that there would be cultural facilities in the main part of the Allston campus. We are expecting ultimately that a site would be there on the main part of the Allston campus and not out where Citizens...