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...successful because people are further removed and impartial and can be more judicious—not to say that you can ever make yourself truly objective.” According to McMillian, the first issue of “The Sixties” may cover the Whitney Museum??s Summer of Love exhibit, the recent film “Across the Universe,” and interviews with priest and anti-war demonstrator Daniel Berrigan. Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, now in his late 1970s, plans to contribute a book review with a perspective he describes...
...shorthand), propagated by chroniclers of the few intrepid adventurers who braved photography’s inconvenience for its verisimilitude . Janet E. and Frederick R. Wulsin, Jr., explorers with the National Geographic Society, were such mythical characters. Their photographs, a selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum??s “Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921–1925,” are the soft, warm breaths of this dying breed.TIBETAN LANTERN SLIDESWhile analog photography may be a drag, the complications of the process give “Vanished Kingdoms?...
...high tech. If only he could see the museums of today, complete with automatic temperature and lighting controls, computer catalogs—and, now, iPods?Yes, iPods. Alexandra M. Hays ’08-’09 is creating a podcast for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum??a twenty-first century audio guide geared towards the student body. The project, funded by a grant from the Office of the Arts, is intended to encourage student visitorship at the Sackler.Students who volunteered to contribute to the podcast were asked to choose an object in the museum and reflect...
...York, won the Pritzer Prize, the architecture world’s highest honor, that same year.Piano’s two-building project was slated to create gallery space for modern and contemporary art in one building and serve as a new home for the Sackler Museum??s ancient and non-Western collection in the other. But community opposition put an end to the plans. Detractors of the design cited the possibility that its emphasis on drawing large crowds to exhibits might create additional traffic in the area.The current plans for HUAM involve multiple phases in both Cambridge...
...Museums (OUR HUAM) are working to increase publicity and ensure that the move to Allston does not lessen the museums’ emphasis on teaching or sever any ties with the student body.“I’m not sure that at the moment [accessibility] is the museum??s main drive, because they have a lot going on right now,” says Paris A. Spies-Gans ’09, president of OUR HUAM, which was formed just this fall.“Like a lot of things at Harvard, they aren?...