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Collector's Cabinet. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell to its director, who has worked at the museum for 45 years, the last 30 as its head, with the exhibit The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions - a hodgepodge of 300 works of art, from a wooden Egyptian statue to Jasper John's White Flag, collected under de Montebello. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street, New York City...
Thayer, apparently the Trump Tower of freshman dorms, brought out Domna, Petros, and the Opportunes, among other campus celebs, to liven up a dorm-wide masquerade ball held at the Natural History Museum last Thursday...
...endowment for the Fogg Museum’s Department of American Art, curator Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. said he often approached known patrons of American art who had no prior connection to Harvard and were his own friends. While the six other branches of the Fogg Museum received funding from the University’s budget, the Department of American Art, which was established in 2002, was surviving on year-to-year private donations. But in a four-year campaign orchestrated mainly by Stebbins, the department raised $10.5 million that will now be allocated for American art, the Harvard...
...opening of the “Digging Veritas” archeological exhibit, shards of 400-year-old wine jugs and shattered tobacco pipes showed that current undergraduates might have more in common with Harvard’s earliest alumni than they think. The exhibit, hosted by the Peabody Museum, presents the cumulative work of three different anthropology classes in uncovering the history hidden beneath Harvard’s soil. Monday’s reception offered student curators and faculty advisors a chance to share the fruits of their three-year labor and thank various Harvard sponsors. Nathaniel H. Amdur-Clark...
...gift adds to an already diverse collection at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which since its founding in 1901 has been the only American museum which specializes in displaying artwork of all periods from central and northern Europe, especially art from the German-speaking countries...