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...Warhol in your dorm room? It may sound ludicrous, but, along with the basics: an e-mail account, membership to the MAC and access to Widener Library, every Harvard student has this opportunity. And it doesn't cost that much. For between $20 and $40 a year, the Fogg Art Museum rents prints, etchings, and woodcuts to students to hang in their rooms...
This rental progam set up by the Fogg is one way the Museum tries to reach out to students who may only have heard of the Fogg in connection with House formals...
...snack with a tangy fruit-flavored filling. And there's always Carlsberg. While the company's marketing division assesses Carlsberg as "probably the best lager in the World," and danishes are unquestionably the finest starchy breakfast snacks money can buy, having seen the exhibition of Danish painting at the Fogg, I don't plan to throw out my Goyas, Cezannes, and Van Goghs to make room for their Danish contemporaries. If you've never heard of any Danish painters, don't panic. The collection of Danish paintings currently on display, while interesting, serves mainly to indicate how little...
Even if it doesn't force you to overturn all you prior convictions about art and the universe, the Fogg show does illustrate the development of a small national artistic community through one of the most tumultuous epochs in the history of European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists...
...Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art" continues the fine season of abstract art exhibited at the Fogg Museum. The show raises interesting issues of the formal elements in art. More importantly, this exhibition acknowledges the emergence of abstraction as an evolutionary stage of art. At one time in the '60s, the Fogg was respected as an institution that supported the new developments of the contemporary art scene. One only has to think of Michael Fried's 1965 show, "Three American Painters," to be reminded of the golden days of the Fogg. Does the museum have the vision...