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...about this award, he suggested to Boyers, “Why don’t we just put together what’s on the walls and tell people about it?” The committee, comprised of Mayo, two representatives from Houghton Library, and two representatives from the Fogg Museum, was impressed by Massey’s personal connection to these works of art, Mayo said. Massey added that the collection is a “way of remembering things.” “It’s a way of keeping some beauty in my life...
...museum. It’s about how we move through space,” Hays says. “We have no pretense of curatorial legitimacy, so we can say what we want.” Meg Howland, director of public programming and visitor services at the Fogg Art Museum and Hays’ museum liaison, says she thinks the project will help increase the number of non-art students who visit the museum. “I think that having students present the information is the way to go,” she says. “It?...
...beer developed and supplied particularly for the Queen’s Head by the Harpoon Brewery. Enhancing the atmosphere of the new space will be a Memorial Hall gargoyle, which fell off the building’s tower during a 1956 fire and resurfaced 12 years later in the Fogg Art Museum. The museum has agreed to a permanent loan with the Queen’s Head, and the gargoyle will be displayed above the bar. “As you walk in, the gargoyle will be right there to greet you,” said Loker Commons Project Manager...
...museum, but looking at Norton’s private collection in the study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American art, “The Last Ruskinians” will be on view at the Fogg Art Museum until July 8. John Ruskin was a 19th-century British watercolorist who took what he called a “truth to nature” approach, producing realistic, vibrantly colored, and detailed images. He found a strong following among a group of Americans, who keenly imitated his no-frills...
...cubism revolution of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque violently overturned accepted artistic conventions, the door was open for artists like Fernand Léger to rearticulate the relationship between form and representation. “Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms,” on display at the Fogg Art Museum from April 14 through June 10, offers a rare look at the stylistic evolution of this seminal artist as he moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work produced between...