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DIED During more than a quarter-century as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anne d'Harnoncourt became one of the most powerful and respected women in her field, driving a massive expansion-and-renovation project that helped turn the museum's collection of modern and contemporary art into one of the world's finest. Following in the footsteps of her father Ren d'Harnoncourt, noted director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, she presided over numerous widely praised exhibitions, including a large Paul Czanne retrospective in 1996 and a showing of Salvador Dal?...
Surprisingly, this is Kapoor's first major museum survey in the U.S. in 15 years. In that time he's become a global art-world brand and something close to a household name in Britain, where he arrived in 1973 as a 19-year-old art student. He was first noticed for works in which he covered cones, cubes and pyramids with intensely colored raw pigment to make primal objects with a radioactive intensity. Since then, he's moved on to fiberglass, resin, acrylic and stainless steel, but almost always playing with the threshold between the solid and the immaterial...
...author of two books, Harris works in a sparsely decorated, gray office in University Hall and an office in the Semitic Museum, lined with books about modern European history, Jewish history, religion, and philosophy in English as well as Hebrew, German, Dutch, and Yiddish...
...Khan, whose 50th Harvard reunion is this week, has donated millions to the University in the past, endowing a professorship and a chair, and supporting library and museum programs...
...Megan, who serves on the task force, said that it has taken “a leave-no-stone-unturned approach to where we are,” meeting with everyone from students to museum staffers to faculty from key academic departments. In addition, the task force has studied the arts at other universities such as Yale and Princeton...