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...museums. In those rooms, visitors can request to see any piece of art in the collection, either during open hours or by appointment.“What is really special about the Harvard art museums are the study rooms that are here,” says Susan M. Dackerman, the Weyerhaeuser curator of prints at the Fogg, who heads a department that includes about 70,000 prints from the late 15th century to present day. Dackerman says the Mongan Center study room in the Fogg is particularly important for her department because light-sensitive works on paper are not permanently...
...heels of this year’s midterm elections, the exhibit makes no bones about its desire to provoke discussion. It states its ambition to be a “site of public discourse” in its accompanying introductory statement. And just in case you think Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser curator of prints at the Fogg, is kidding, the show backs up its point by beginning with a bang. In the Fogg’s Italian Renaissance courtyard, Richard Serra’s black-and-white image of a hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner, whose peaked head is flanked...
During the first week of classes every September, hundreds of Harvard students flock to the Fogg Museum in hopes of choosing from the best selection of prints. According to Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, the program offers artwork by young, emerging artists as well as works by famous artists like Joan Miro and Robert Rauschenberg...
...that is opens there are 100 students waiting outside the door of the museum and there is a big rush to grab the perennial favorites,” says Dackerman...
...purpose of the program is to get students used to living with original works of art so it may whet their own appetite for collecting when they realize how affordable prints actually are,” Dackerman says...