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Each day, locals dial the museum??s hotline—available only to residents—and leave voice messages about daily experiences that amazed them or inspired them. At the end of the day, Kottamasu, now a graduate student of Urban Planning at MIT, puts the messages together in a program, along with his commentary...
...business, they’re much more forward-looking disciplines. Art History is tradition,” says Yap. “And displacing it from the historical community might not help.”According to Luann Abrahams, the Assistant Director for Administration at HUAM, one of the museum??s many goals has been to preserve its presence in the Yard, while conducting the renovations. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which houses ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, will not be renovated and will instead feature a “best-of” collection culled from...
...This spring, the Fogg will introduce “American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950,”a rare opportunity to view the museum??s revered but well-protected collection. The exhibit runs from April 8 to June 25 and is curated by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Virginia M. Anderson...
Dust off those Air Forces. Unpack the SL-1200s.Before long, freestyle neophytes curious about hip-hop history will be able to take their “ass to the museum??—in the characteristically bombastic words of “Cop Killer” rapper Ice-T—to have some knowledge dropped on their inquiring domes. Grandmaster Flash, the Smithsonian needs you. The Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life...
...School accepted its first ever gift from Saudi Arabia: $300,000 from the government to establish a chair in Islamic law. In 1982, Harvard received two gifts within months of each other. The first, $600,000 tagged for the Semitic Museum??s efforts at preserving photographs of Middle Eastern life, came from the Saudi royal family. The second gift, this time from a Saudi businessman, aroused controversy because some alleged that it involved an unwritten agreement conditional on the hiring of a new faculty member with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The allegations were never proven...