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...wants Harvard undergraduates to have. As coordinator of public education with the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), Stanton is charged with getting more students to explore the University’s enormous collections—an objective that will be increasingly difficult given the fact that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums will close this summer for four years of renovations.The looming closures notwithstanding, Stanton says that undergraduate interest in the art collections has increased in recent years, in large part due to the efforts of the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM...
...husband, the prominent Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, created the piece. Moholy-Nagy was consistently troubled by its preservation and attempts by the museum’s curators to make a working replica to avoid damage to the original. The object files for the sculpture, currently in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, are full of subtly barbed letters between Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the museum’s director.Moholy-Nagy was born in Dresden in 1903. In the late ’20s she met and married Laszlo when he asked her to help him edit an avant-garde film. After...
...displayed in galleries. Given the limited space, significant structural constraints have also led to the exclusion of Native American, Latin American, and Oceanic art collections. The Fogg is the only museum out of Harvard’s three that is not devoted to a specific region, while the Busch-Reisinger houses Northern and Central European art and the Sackler houses Islamic and Asian art. Despite this regional freedom, however, the Fogg is still limited by various space constraints and endowments that come with stipulations. For example, the Winthrop Collection, the largest of several important donations, was given to Harvard under...
...exciting because each event is unique, and each tour has never been given before.” Bridging the gap between the museums and the students will be particularly important in coming days as the Sackler becomes the main art museum on campus. The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums temporarily close next year for renovation.But Spies-Gans emphasizes that the event’s main goal is to bring people into the world of campus art: “People can see that the art isn’t scary and that you don’t need to know...
...world is supposed to slash tariffs and other barriers on everything from cars to software to wood to wine to legal and financial services. But for several years, our reluctance to cut farm supports has stalled the talks, kneecapping American firms ranging from Microsoft to FedEx to Anheuser-Busch, and even American farmers who rely on exports. "The problem is a vested political constituency that's absolutely committed to the status quo," says retired California Congressman Cal Dooley, a former cotton and walnut farmer who leads the Grocery Manufacturers Association. "That's the main obstacle to free trade...