Word: grindlay
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...According to Sandra Grindlay, curator of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, the University’s extensive collection contains more than 1,200 works, with even more portraits of subjects lacking a direct connection to Harvard in the general museum holdings. “It’s Harvard’s original collection,” Grindlay says. “The first portrait was acquired...
...about art,” Lessersohn says. “The students are generally curious. They just don’t know about all of the resources we have on campus. If they are told, they will definitely go out and look for these things.”Sandra Grindlay, Harvard University portrait curator, agrees. In reference to campus art that’s not housed in one of the three art museums on Quincy Street, Grindlay says, “There is a lack of awareness because there is lack of information and communication about its being there...
...Grindlay said he hopes the plates will be able to shed more light on many astronomers’ favorite new mystery objects—quasars, the super-massive black holes that form the center of many galaxies...
...These quasars are spectacularly variable, bubbling and flickering and doing all sorts of wonderful things,” Grindlay said. “But the most massive ones vary on time scales of months or even years, and not many data sets have that kind of sky coverage...
...still remember thinking, back when I was a grad student and looking at some of the plates the old fashioned way, ‘Wow, what a treasure trove of data,’” Grindlay said. “And now we’ll be able...