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...sequel to the “Night at the Fogg Museum” event, held earlier this year, the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives for Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) will present “Night at the Sackler Museum” on Dec. 6. Togas are optional at this night of antiquity, but an extensive knowledge of art history is definitely not a requirement—the student-run event aims to introduce Harvard undergraduates to exhibits on display at the Sackler through culinary, dance, and fashion attractions, as well as student-led tours that will run throughout...
...honor of her inauguration and playing to her academic expertise, University President Drew G. Faust introduced a collection of prints exploring the ramifications of the Civil War at an exhibit in the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibit featured Kara Walker’s reinterpretations of traditional Civil War images in fifteen large-scale prints. She combines lithographic reproductions from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War with haunting silhouettes of black slaves screenprinted over them. Faust’s appearance at the museum came the day after she announced the creation of a university-wide task force...
...Some curators from the Fogg are coming with some art that I selected last week. I think it would perk the place up a bit,” Faust said on her second day as President, before the art arrived...
...conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries, in the Fogg and the Peabody, in our departments of classics, of history and of literature. We are uncomfortable with efforts to justify these endeavors by defining them as instrumental, as measurably useful to particular contemporary needs. Instead we pursue them in part “for their own sake...
...Woman with Mandolin in Yellow and Red” (1950), painted in the year of his death, is a bright, bare-breasted swan song. The 40s are represented by a painting from the Busch-Reisinger’s own collection, which rounds out an engaging quartet. Fogg Art Museum Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) Through Nov. 11, 2007 Billed as, “A fitting tribute to Harvard’s new president,” “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated...