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Etchings by James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, as well as other less well-known artists, are currently on display at the Fogg Museum in the special exhibition "Etching and Etchers Since 1850." The show highlights etchings done since etching became a rare artistic medium--that is, since the invention of photography and less expensive print processes allowed for mass-production of illustrations and rendered etching an inefficient process...
...Harvard students of Marjorie B. Cohn's Fine Arts Department seminar on the history of etching, which was given in the spring of 1995. The exhibit serves as an instructional experience which provides an introduction to etching. The students selected from the works of individual artists within the Fogg's collection, prepared the exhibit, and wrote the label texts, addressing etching and its tools, its artistic merits, and its limitations...
...Harvard's record of architectural trusteeship is scandalous: the Carey Cage and the Old Fogg, to name the most distinguished examples, have been thoughtlessly destroyed in the wake of shortsighted optimism. Seize this opportunity to preserve a jewel of architecture and to close a sad chapter in Harvard's history...
This concern with craft is readily apparent in all the pieces on display at the Fogg. Traces of solder mark every metal juncture on these pieces--even in the monumentally minimalistic "5 1/2" (1956). Stung by several critics' refusal to consider pieces created by industrial welding as art, Smith persistently defended his technique. The fancifully chaotic composition of "Bird" (1957) further evokes the spirit of an artist unwilling to bow to convention...
...bright November sunshine filtered in through the recently-washed stained glass windows of Memorial Hall's new first-year dining room, employees of the Fogg Art Museum washed an armless statue of John Adams...