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...according to the study. Despite the growing controversy, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art will display the majority of the collection from which the three disputed paintings stem in its “Pollock Matters” exhibit opening in September. Nancy Netzer, the museum??s director and professor of art history at Boston College, said that the works still merit exhibition and further investigation. “Our aim is to present all of the information that we have,” Netzer said. “There is a lot of conflicting evidence...
...museum is finished. Underneath the massive cantilever, the space is not cavernous, as it threatens to be when seen from afar, but intimate—an effect achieved through the repeated use of wood planking to cover the promenade, the steps, and the underside of the overhang.The museum??s actual entrance is warmly welcoming rather than imposing; one tall triangular wall is devoted to a commissioned mural, due to rotate each year. Currently on view is Chiho Aoshima’s whimsical “The Divine Gas,” which manages to turn an image...
...Galliano is one of ten designers from the world of Paris fashion whose latest creations are on display in the MFA’s “Fashion Show,” which is on display now and runs through March 18, 2007. Organized by Pamela Parmal, the museum??s curator of textile and fashion arts, the new exhibit is a first for Boston and the first of its kind.Whereas most fashion exhibits in museums are retrospectives of a single designer or fashion house, “Fashion Show” features ready-to-wear and couture looks...
...wouldn’t be completely absurd to look for “Looking at Landscapes; Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers,” at an art museum??the small, gray room that holds the exhibit’s 52 photographs could easily be part of one. But in order to catch the collection of works by Alex MacLean, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Camilo José Vergara, students have to walk past the Fogg and the Sackler and head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena...
...less than a year after graduating from Harvard College, Michael C. Rockefeller ’60 joined the Peabody Museum??s 1961 New Guinea Expedition as a sound recordist and photographer. Shortly after the expedition, Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea while on a personal trip to photograph and collect Asmat art. Forty-two photographs from the more than 4000 negatives he left behind are currently showing at the Peabody. Though Rockefeller left few notes to guide the selection of his photographs—rendering the transformation from archive to exhibition largely interpretive—this lucid and organized...