Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today students will attend classes: hear discussions on freshman year and financial aid led by top-ranking deans, tour the Fogg Art Museum, and participate in receptions with tutors and faculty in the Houses...
...most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping for a spot in the survey course...
...Center was established in 1928 by then-Fogg director Edward W. Forbes, as the museum's conservation department. Since then, the Center has expanded to become a national, non-profit cooperative. Each year, museums and private collectors throughout the country send more than 500 art works to the museum. The Center staff works to repair and clean works, and often checks the pieces for authenticity...
...Center performed a similar investigation about 10 years ago, when Van Gogh's "Shoes" was on display at the Fogg. In the laboratory upstairs, researchers found that a vase of flowers had been painted under the surface of the work...
...excitement of unique discoveries, the Center's specialists must often do the more tedious and undesirable work of cleaning pieces of art. Paintings often become infested with worms, beetles, and other pests. Lab workers recently removed an 11th century Chinese polychrome wood statue from exhibition at the Fogg for the first time since 1928. They had to fumigate the piece in a special lab to rid it of powder-post beetles...