Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOGG EXHIBIT of "Drawings from the Daniels Collection" leaves an observer oddly disappointed. Many pieces in the selection are excellent and they are diverse, but, as the Italian chef said about the ingredients in his spaghetti sauce, they never got married. They stay separate and leave the customer dissatisfied and unmoved...
...planned to audit Fine Arts 13 this semester, forget it. 415 students--80 more than last year--have signed up for the course so far and there are only 398 seats in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall...
...collection has grown steadily, the amount of display room has stayed the same and the Fogg is starting to feel the pinch. It plans to expand within the next five years, proably by building an addition to house the offices and workrooms now on the third and fourth floors. That would free these floors for gallery space, and they would be opened to the public...
Agnes Mongan, now Curator of Drawings, is expected to occupy the director's office for a year. Who the next long-term director will be and how he and the projected expansion will affect the Fogg are anybody's guess...
...museum today remains, despite Coolidge's innovations, a quiet, eminently civilized place, a refuge from an outside world which is more Dada and Surrealism than Currier and Ives. This quietude is conscious; the Fogg has resisted the kind of publicity New York's Metropolitan Museum gained from its disclosure of the forged Greek horse, and it is unlikely to sponsor Alan Kaprow's next happening. Certainly the scholarship and aesthetic judgment Coolidge values so highly can thrive in this quietude. But whether the impact of this intellectual activity may be obscured, whether the intelligent decisions may lose the impact they...