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...Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05, who as a result resolved to dedicate a building to the visual arts at Harvard. Although the University tried to cajole Carpenter to donate his dollars elsewhere, Carpenter built his art center under two conditions: that the building be in close proximity to the Fogg Art Museum and that he choose the architect. Only through Carpenter's generous contributions does Harvard have a Center for the Performing Arts--and the only North American building designed by Le Corbusier...
Courtyard of the Fogg Museum...
...Fogg revisits the work that shocked the art world in 1970 with an exhibition of Philip Guston's (gasp!) figurative paintings
Alas, childhood's innocence was bound to end sometime, and, as a mature visitor to the Fogg's exhibit Philip Guston: A New Alphabet (and new devotee of museum wall-text and peripheral literature), I was taken aback to discover that Guston's coneheads are, in fact, Ku Klux Klan members, that the cycloptic heads (not shown in this exhibition) are representations of a bedridden Guston himself, that the fairy-tale sphinx of "Nile" (1977) is an ailing wife. Symbolic, after all. But, as Guston reminisces in the excellent film documentary of his career, A Life Lived (1980), on view...
...Philip Guston: A New Alphabet is showing at the Fogg through...