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Craigen Weston Bowen, deputy director of the Straus Center for Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum, died of cancer at her home in Lexington, Mass. earlier this month. She was 54. Bowen is remembered for the relentless energy that she brought to her passions for art conservation, gardening, and rock climbing. Bowen’s younger brother, Frederick W. Weston III, recounted spending the past Fourth of July with his sister at their family lake house in Maine, saying that as the rest of their family relaxed before the annual antique wooden boat parade, Bowen was busy planting a bush...
...doing something else, something more unambiguously productive,” photographer Moyra Davey writes in the introduction to the literary anthology “Mother Reader.” Davey, whose retrospective photographic exhibit “Long Life Cool White” is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, sought to remedy her unease by combining productivity and pleasure.Davey’s beloved books are everywhere in her photographs. They appear first in four oversized photographs of books with their spines facing away from the camera. The books–of which we see only stacks...
...rainy afternoon at the Fogg, throngs of college students stand huddled together, examining the dust that had gathered under Moyra Davey’s bed.In “Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey,” on display at the Fogg Art Museum until June 30, New York City photographer Davey focuses her lens on everyday objects. These range from the humble—stacks of books and records, for example—to mundane substances such as dust.“Dust is something as an element that has always fascinated me,” Davey...
...artist’s African inspirations, is just one prominent example.This historical disinterest is manifested in the lack of African art on Harvard’s own campus. It currently enjoys only a scattered presence, featured on a small scale in buildings such as the DuBois Center. Though the Fogg and the Peabody art museums have large collections of African art, they have remained in storage. However, the construction of a new art museum in Allston could remedy the deficit in exhibition space devoted to the discipline. “It’s such a timely occasion in which...
...tier students, universities have begun to compete in an arms race over facilities. Our beloved Harvard is of course no exception. From Lamont Café, where students can acquire the caffeine they need to continue the cycle of self-destructive study habits (without even going outside!), to the Fogg Museum, where students are only a short walk away from being able to stab a priceless piece of art in brief spurt of psychological madness, our campus’s facilities shine. However, Harvard outdoes its peers by far with its river housing: Just two weeks ago, for example, Winthrop House?...