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...soon also drawn to a long line of people apparently waiting for something very special, visible through one of the colonnades on the first floor. They wait patiently, often for more than half an hour, to enter the museum's tiny special events gallery and see the Botticelli exhibit...
...exhibit, through 12 works altogether, attempts to trace the development and changes in artistic style of Sandro Botticelli, one of the great artists of the Italian Renaissance. As an introduction to his time period as well as to his works, it manages to present a vast amount of information in a very logical sequence, making good use of the relatively small and awkward space. But while it gives the viewer a glimpse of Botticelli's life and times, this is often at the expense of drawing the viewer's eye from the artwork. The text, well-written and informative, tends...
...other religious faiths have been or should be allowed to perform ceremonies in Memorial Church, what right has he to say that we are breaking with Christianity? My version of Christianity and his are very different. I do not presume to judge his creed as wrong; perhaps he could exhibit the same degree of respect for mine...
...center stage in the courtyard of the Fogg Museum on Thursday night was an unlikely star: the sickle and hammer of the demised Soviet state. More than three feet high, the ice sculpture heralded the opening of the Harvard Art Museums' newest exhibit, suitably titled in appreciative language, "Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design...
...suffers. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, for example, have found that children who don't play much or are rarely touched develop brains 20% to 30% smaller than normal for their age. Laboratory animals provide another provocative parallel. Not only do young rats reared in toy-strewn cages exhibit more complex behavior than rats confined to sterile, uninteresting boxes, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found, but the brains of these rats contain as many as 25% more synapses per neuron. Rich experiences, in other words, really do produce rich brains...