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...crimes and the killer are intertwined with London's identity and history," says Julia Hoffbrand, co-curator a new major exhibition, "Jack the Ripper and the East End," at London's Museum in Docklands. Of the many hardscrabble neighborhoods of Dickensian London, none was more blighted than Whitechapel, a grim, crowded East End hellhole, rife with poverty, disease, crime and homelessness. Prostitution was widespread; alcohol was plentiful. Whitechapel as an ominous, foggy maze of gaslit, cobbled streets, alleys and dead ends "is still very much the public image of the East End now," says Hoffbrand...
...Davies quotes Chekhov - "The golden moments pass, and leave no trace" - but the director's entire, exemplary career has been a mission to ensure that old moments, golden or grim, will have a prominent place in the museum of our collective memory...
...YouTube is unlike any of those other media. There is no buying your ticket, no shifting in your seat with popcorn in hand; no stiff new book to crack open; no grappling with an artist's meaning in solemn galleries. Framed by neither the walls of a cinema or museum, nor the written page, YouTube is a kind of non-context, an ether from which one draws images designed for rapid, repeated consumption. Content of great value mixes with bullies terrorizing their classmates, public flatulence and some six-year-old's piano recital...
...Named for Thomas T. Hoopes '19, the curator of the City Art Museum in St. Louis and a firearms expert, the prize was given to 83 seniors this year...
...years, Lamont won’t be the only place where students cram for finals. Last week, the Harvard Art Museum released images of planned renovations to the Sackler, Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums, due to be renovated over the next five years. Designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the renovations will physically unite the three current museums, and will feature ample study rooms and an open courtyard conducive to working. Plans to change the structure of the Harvard Art Museum buildings have been in the works since 2003, when current Museum director Thomas W. Lentz was appointed...