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There, alumni like David C. Fogg '56 and Charles Brumwell '39 and Michael L. Reiss '81 made brief appearances. Reiss, who is known for catapulting the Simpsons television show to untold popularity, headed to the Charles Hotel after exhausting his energy at the House of Blues...
...Sight-Seeing: Photography of the Middle East and its Audiences, 1840-1940," which runs through April 22 at the Fogg Museum, masterfully takes up this issue and explores the ways photography shaped both Europe's real and imaginary encounters with the Middle East. The exhibit combines both commercial and amateur prints in the forms of snapshots, commercially reproduced photo albums, postcards, panoramic prints and lantern slides. The exhibit focuses on the main areas of photographic representation: landscapes, portraiture, Western technological innovation and representational images...
...news, meanwhile, is that we have no culture of our own. Oh, we have "painters," yes--just take a trot through the Carpenter Center, or the modernist wing at the Fogg. And we have "writers," absolutely--turn on Oprah's Book Club, she'll introduce you to them. "Musicians," too--that Eminem fellow is pretty popular, right? And we've got plenty of great minds--most of them tenured at Harvard, if you believe the promotional literature...
Moisson commissioned the study after a union trustee wrote a letter to HUAM Director James Cuno formally requesting an investigation of "the issue of cancer," the extent of asbestos in the Fogg, an inventory of chemicals used in the building and a study of other possible hazardous conditions in the Fogg and Sackler museums...
...study found the conservation laboratory's high-tech ventilation system was well-equipped to handle the "thimbleful" of three common chemicals--benzene, sulfuric acid and potassium dichromate--used in restoring artwork and that concerns about asbestos proved to be unfounded. Although small amounts of asbestos remain in the Fogg from its construction in the 1920's (most has been removed over time), Coghlan said it was encapsulated well enough that no particles were present...