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...will be able to do just that. But visitors can rest assured that the revelry won’t come at the expense of historical ambience. The pub’s planners have equipped the new space, located under Annenberg Hall in the Memorial Hall complex, with everything from museum artifacts to paintings to bring patrons back to the tavern’s 19th-century origins. (The pub shares it name with a Southwark, England, drinkery that was among the properties bequeathed by John Harvard to the University upon his death.) Following the pub’s ribbon-cutting ceremony...
...dilemma seems particularly applicable as of late. Last week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum teamed up with Google to allow every Google Earth user to visualize the genocide committed by the Janjaweed militia in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...this initiative is aimed at more than scattered techies. Like anything undertaken by Google these days, the scale is colossal: Over 200 million people have already downloaded Google Earth since it became available in 2005. According to executives at both the company and the museum, this is just the first in a series of collaborations to highlight past genocides and (the threat of) future ones wherever they may arise...
...Their Circle,” you immediately feel at home. The deep burgundy walls accented with gold-framed watercolors create a warm, inviting environment that seduces you to stay for hours, and by the middle of the show, you are truly convinced that you are not standing in a museum, but looking at Norton’s private collection in the study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American art, “The Last Ruskinians” will be on view at the Fogg Art Museum...
...Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque violently overturned accepted artistic conventions, the door was open for artists like Fernand Léger to rearticulate the relationship between form and representation. “Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms,” on display at the Fogg Art Museum from April 14 through June 10, offers a rare look at the stylistic evolution of this seminal artist as he moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work produced between...