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Harvard has hired a contractor and is moving forward with plans to construct the new Busch-Reisinger museum building, the University official in charge of the project said yesterday...
...contracting firm of Walsh Brothers is providing what Harvard's project manager Elizabeth J. Buckley called "pre-construction services," including a preliminary cost analysis and recommendations on the building of the museum...
...through the calendar, museums in the U.S. and abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures...
Ever since, Lacayo has appraised photographic styles ranging from the dark documentary stills of Robert Frank to the robust portraiture of Lisette Model. This week he reviews "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989," a sweeping survey of the form's history at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Says he: "This show will impress upon people the sheer variety of the art. There's nothing mechanical about...
...mark the event, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston assembles a splendid survey of the greatest sights captured by a shutter, from Nadar to Walker Evans, from Western landscape to the world at war. It was a century and a half in which men and women looking through a lens remade the world in their own images...