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Pilbeam's career at Harvard began in 1981 when he became the curator of paleoanthropology at Peabody Museum, a position he still holds today in addition to his professorship. —Check back at www.thecrimson.com for updates.—Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...time teaching and research as a member of our Faculty. To provide more time for me to consult with all of you concerning a permanent replacement, I am delighted to announce that Professor David Pilbeam, Henry Ford II Professor of Human Evolution and Curator of Paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum, has generously agreed to serve as Dean of the College on an interim basis effective September...
...Piero della Francesca portrait. The dimensions of the movie screen, Antonioni suggested, have less in common with the stage proscenium than with the frame of a painting. Films are pictures on a wall, and Antonioni was one of the first directors working within the commercial cinema to make museum movies. One didn't watch his films so much as gaze at them - at a duration determined...
...hurdles remain, of course. Lines of communication must be handled carefully. To bring the terracotta army over from Xian this year, Taiwan's National Museum of History had to negotiate the deal through a third party (exhibition sponsor United Daily News Group) because high-level government-to-government contacts are forbidden. And no one expects progress on the issue of the National Palace Museum collections in Taiwan. The Chinese government still views the museum's holdings as stolen loot, spirited away by Chiang Kai-shek's army when it retreated to the island in 1949; curators in Taipei...
...running his own show and doing something good for the world. A few years ago, he sold his house and slashed his living expenses to buy some cameras and travel the world to shoot pictures of children in common settings: a first haircut, a lost tooth. A former museum director, Steckel hoped to show that all people share the same basic life experiences. He and his wife Michele, his partner in the Milestones Project in Littleton, Colo., say they have found their purpose. "People thought we were out of our minds," says Steckel. "I guess we live with a different...