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...says Tarlow. “Now [the students] can understand history through the prism of art.”Located on the concourse level of CGIS South, in a large open space leading to various meeting rooms and offices, the Davis Center is clearly not constructed as a typical museum space. The non-traditional set up of the Davis Center created challenges for Katsnelson, a Harvard Ph.D. in art history; however, the space also presented her with a unique opportunity. “[The space] is unlike a traditional museum space, which is specifically designated to exhibit...
...Though they were produced in murderous times, the works at the Asia Society are almost uniformly cheery, following the dictum of Jiang Qing, Mao's fourth wife and ultimate cultural arbiter, that art be "red, bright and shining." In other words: propaganda. Asia Society Museum Director Melissa Chiu and co-curator Zheng Shengtian argue in the show's excellent catalog, however, that, didactic or not, socialist art represented a "significant cultural movement in China" - one that produced some "truly great art," especially paintings, and that such works "continue to influence Chinese visual culture." The contemporary installation artist Xu Bing, whose...
...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...
...upgrade, too. Saint-Etienne, for instance, laid on a new downtown tram line for locals. Officials also polished their cities' cultural and public spaces. Local government funding in Bilbao, for one, helped transform a derelict patch of riverside into a cultural landmark, with the voluptuous-looking Guggenheim Museum at its center. (See pictures of The Louvre in Paris...
...legacy of her father, for whom the Kennedy School and a major campus thoroughfare are named, she spent her undergraduate career at Harvard much like any other student, living in the freshman dorms and even writing a few stories for The Crimson.After graduation, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her husband Edwin A. Schlossberg, and then received a law degree from Columbia.In recent years, Kennedy has been very involved with New York public schools, first running the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the city’s Department of Education from...