Word: museum
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Meeting in the Fogg Art Museum, officials from both sides gave presentations on their universities. In addition to the Harvard administrators, leaders from the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Virginia, Duke and M.I.T. took part in the chance to meet with their Chinese counterparts...
...ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM...
...Originally the Museum of Germanic Art, the Busch-Reisinger has accumulated over the past century an impressive holding of post-1880 German art with a particular emphasis on German Expressionism. The stark curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard Richter and the restrained hysteria of Max Beckmann. Also notable is a series of Bauhaus paintings (including works by Malevich and El Lissitsky), a pair of Jawlensky portraits, and an unusual Klimt. Currently on display is a collection of works by Hannah Darboven, touted by the curatorial staff...
...Founded in 1985 to hold Harvard's collection of Asian, Ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, the Sackler is the newest addition to the Harvard University Museums. The holdings contain one of the best jade collections in the country, as well an extensive representation of early Chinese bronzes (most notably a series of three ritual bells from the late Chou dynasty). Also particularly strong are the ancient Greek vases, with exquisite exa.m.ples of both red-figure and black-figure techniques. Not to be missed: the beautifully preserved and delicately painted Japanese hand-scroll depicting "The Tale of the Rat." Currently...
...participants will gather today and tomorrow for a series of discussions and talks, mostly held in the dimly-lit second floor Naumburg Room in the Fogg Art Museum, specially outfitted with translation booths and better lighting for the occasion...