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...School, locals criticized the new art museum for being, as the Boston Globe put it, a “glorified warehouse.” But they have the wrong impression: The new museum will contain 14,000 square feet of public gallery space, only slightly less than the Fogg Museum’s 18,000. The proposed floor plans, included in the publicly available Project Notification Form (PNF), show that there will be an entire floor dedicated to galleries and a dramatic sculpture garden. There will also be a study center, a classroom, and a multi-purpose room for events...
...Museums released a plan to reinvent their renowned collection with an eye toward the expansion in Allston. Molesworth said that the proposed Allston-Brighton Art Center would provide additional space for works of modern and contemporary art, which are often larger than pieces from other genres and which the Fogg Museum cannot accommodate. Houghton said in the press release that he and his wife have been impressed by Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums Thomas W. Lentz’s outlook for the museums in the future. “We applaud his vision to create...
...there’s a tiny speck of paint.” The paint is almost impossible to see; as Khandekar points out, it is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.These specks drew world-wide attention on Jan. 29 of this year, when Khandekar, Fogg Associate Curator of Modern Art Harry Cooper, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art released a report declaring that some of the samples contain pigments that had not been used as artists’ paint until 1996.Khandakar...
...eyes of Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, the dreary Littauer Library soon could be much more: the site of spacious classrooms and graduate offices as well as a new home for nomadic economics concentrators and their far-flung professors.The dream will have to wait.An upcoming renovation of the Fogg Art Museum has put Stock’s hope for a re-born Littauer Center on hold, possibly for the next 15 years. The Fogg’s Fine Arts Library will move into the Littauer basement, now the home of a little-used economics library, for an anticipated eight...
Studen outlined current construction projects taking place at Harvard, including renovations of the current Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museum building; Fairfax Hall, which houses the Leavitt & Pierce cigar store; Rockefeller Hall at the Harvard Divinity School; and the New College Theatre on the former site of the Hasty Pudding...