Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of running the Fogg as a sedate mausoleum of art, Coolidge committed the museum to expanded educational services, so that it now serves as both a display center for Fine Arts classes and a workshop for grad students studying curatorship. Coolidge came to Harvard as an assistant professor of Fine Arts in 1947, the year before he became director, and will go back to full-time teaching after stepping down from the directorship. He taught courses most of the years in between and tried to combine the museum staff and Fine Arts Faculty into a single community of scholars...
...Fogg is the summit of the establishment among American University museums, and its tradition gives it a peculiar responsibility for training curators. Almost all the museum directors in the United States have attended Harvard at some time. And approximately 47 per cent of all trustees of all American museums went to Harvard...
...Fogg gives its graduate students a huge role in running the museum and the results are often sensational. The Degas Monotype exhibit which has filled three galleries for the last two months is Mrs. Eugenia Janis's Ph.D. dissertation in visual form. The Fogg's 1966 Art Nouveau exhibit was a project for Coolidge's graduate seminar in art museum problems. A grad student made a slide-tape presentation of Poussin's "Birth of Bacchus" and two are now making a movie of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais," starting from the collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg...
...Fogg's reputation and contact with exstudents who work at other museums make it easy for grad students like Mrs. Janis to borrow works and set up exhibits. And the practice in setting up exhibits is valuable to would-be and will-be curators. In fact it gives graduate education in Harvard's Fine Arts department a distinct bias to producing curators rather than educators...
...Rather it is a calculated response to a basic change in the nature of the American art world." He argues that the art historian today must be a generalist, ready to teach a course, write a book or put together an exhibition. Accordingly he has tried to make the Fogg a homogeneous community where there is no distinction between curator and professor or grad student and junior staff member...