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...serene intimacy of a wood-paneled gallery at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, two slender violin bows dipped up and down against the backdrop of a 15th century Italian painting last Friday afternoon. The violinists, dressed elegantly in black with splashes of red and white, focused intently on the delicacy of their work. A small audience of museum-goers stood and perched on folding stools nearby, while others calmly perused the surrounding artwork. Even gallery security guards stretched their beats slightly to watch the performance. In adjoining rooms, the airborne cadences of concertos reached statues, portraits, vases, and painted panels...
...violinists were Shiyu Wei ’10 and Shuang Wu ’11, and their concert was a part of the ongoing Student Music Performance Series, organized by the Harvard Arts Museums Education Department. They performed Bach, Vivaldi, Bartók, and Telemann in galleries devoted to the “Western Tradition, Antiquity to 1900.” On five more Friday afternoons this spring, Harvard student musicians will hold hour-long performances with various pieces suited to different galleries of the Sackler. The series aims not only to inform the viewing of visual art from...
...Allston museum project was put on hold indefinitely as the University decided to push through proposals for the first science complex and HUAM prioritized the renovation of existing structures...
Winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize and renowned for his iconic incorporation of natural light and the environment into his designs, Piano has also been commissioned to develop expansions of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston...
...news article "Fogg Architect Describes Plans" incorrectly stated that the architect Renzo Piano was slated to design a new art museum in Allston. In fact, Piano was not tapped to design the Allston museum, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake...