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...Museum to bring students into museum and art life. In the 1930s and 40s, the Museum offered a course in materials and techniques, in which the students used to paint directly on the walls of the Fogg in the tradition of true fresco, according to Marjorie B. Cohn, curator of prints. The brainchild of former museum director Edward Forbes, it was colloquially known as the "Eggs and Plaster" course. Today, you can poke around in closets and corners of the Fogg and still find these creative student originals on the walls...
...frescoes. But the rental program provides a modern option which brings students closer to original art. Every fall, a frenzy ensues in the Fogg's courtyard as undergraduates, graduates and faculty thumb through dolly carts, searching for the original print they want to look at for the next year, Cohn explains...
...Cohn encourages students to participate in the program, because she says she sees a big difference between appreciating an original and a reproduction. She says that the rental program will "get [students] used to living with original art. Everyone should love works in the original, not just in reproductions...
...addition to benefitting the students, the program provides an opportunity for the Museum to purchase new contemporary works. "We hope to ultimately graduate some [prints] into the permanent collection. A bargain today may someday become very valuable," says Cohn. So, ten or twenty years from now when you visit the Museum, something that hung in your dorm room may be on display to the public...
...came to the fore just as the argument about gays in the military was putting the gay cause at center stage for the first time in U.S. history. With its aggressive scorn for Ronald Reagan and Republicanism; for Mormons and moralizing; and its demonic view of lawyer- dealmaker Roy Cohn, a gay-bashing closet gay and a top-level G.O.P. influence peddler for more than three decades, Angels disproved truisms about the unmarketability of political drama. Instead it compellingly reasserted the theater's place in public debate. Hearteningly to theater partisans, Angels generated excitement about a drama comparable...