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...cramped gallery space.“The Art Museums have been committed to modern and contemporary art since the 1930s, when the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and the Busch-Reisinger Museum first began mounting exhibitions of contemporary art and acquiring important examples for their collections,” Lentz wrote last year in an e-mail.“There were no clear plans to develop the necessary facilities to fully exhibit or provide access to many of these works which require larger and more flexible spaces,” Lentz wrote.But with Allston in sight, Lentz says...
...path to the office of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Director Thomas W. Lentz is paved with art-world gold. On the walls of his small study tucked away in the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, the works of Georges Braque and Walter Sickert—the painter who some think led a double life as Jack the Ripper—represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard?...
...resources of land, money, and art to build a world-class museum in Allston,” the members wrote in the letter. “Barry’s Corner and Boston should settle for nothing less.” But Harvard University Art Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz said the art museum would be beneficial for the community as well as the University. “In this case, we think that academic and public interest are not at all incompatible,” he said. “We fully intend to be a welcoming presence here?...
...It’s been a long process, but we are finally at the point at which those facilities are imminent, and we will be able to wholly dedicate ourselves to the exhibition and study of modern and contemporary works,” writes Lentz in an e-mail...
...motivation behind these improvements, Lentz says that “the study, conservation, and appreciation of these works is fundamentally important in the continuum of art history—and our own ability to serve students, faculty and the community...