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Renoir and Radiohead? At the “Night at the Busch-Reisinger Museum” event on Feb. 22, the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) presented striking contrasts like that one in an evening filled with unexpected convergences of the arts. The candlelit Calderwood Courtyard of the Fogg Museum was the nexus of the event, while music and dance performances, docent tours, and hipster tunes mingled...
...This “Night” differed from the first by incorporating tours of the Busch-Reisinger Museum for Germanic Art from Northern and Central Europe, in addition to student-led tours of the Fogg. The event also provided students with a sneak peak at the Busch-Reisinger’s new exhibition “Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus,” which opened last Saturday...
...Night at the Busch-Reisinger,” with its multiple performance acts—including appearances by the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra Quintet and a spandex-clad courtyard performance by the Crimson Dance Team—was inspired by OUR HUAM’s goal of “bringing all the different arts together,” according to Chen. Spies-Gans also cited their desire to “push the bounds of what is considered a museum” as being at the heart of the event’s relaxed atmosphere. The usual hush...
...objective of undergraduates educating their peers through the development of a Student Guide program. Each student-led tour was researched and delivered by a different OUR HUAM volunteer and involved the extensive discussion of three or four thematically linked pieces. For “Night at the Busch-Reisinger,” OUR HUAM expanded the breadth of the eight-minute, one-work format of “Night at the Fogg” because of demand for more comprehensive tours of the collections...
Perhaps part of the misunderstanding comes from the new museum’s initial role as a temporary home for the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums’ collections. The two museums will be undergoing several years of renovations beginning in the summer of 2008. When the Allston museum opens, it will host part of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger collections until the renovations are complete; after that, it will acquire its own modern art collection. Once again, this does not amount to the new museum acting as a warehouse. Even while it is hosting collections from the other Harvard...