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Although the Student Friends have a group on thefacebook.com with over 300 members, its leaders say that the majority of the Harvard undergraduate population is not familiar with the extent of the museums?? offerings...
Huyghe’s project, which will take place, at least in part, in the Harvard University Art Museums??s Sert Gallery on the third floor of the Carpenter Center, might potentially extend to the building itself. Norden notes that Huyghe “wants to do something that will really entail the site. He doesn’t want to bow down to the father...
...every interview for this story, I asked everyone what they would do if they had two weeks to make the most of college. Phillips Professor of History Laurel T. Ulrich, a former professor of mine, enthusiastically mentioned museums (“I’m high on museums?? were her exact words). Dean Gross wrote in an e-mail that if he had just two weeks he “would attend all the talks and exhibits that take place here. Not to mention the Mather Lather.” Most people suggested some version of the same...
Cuno says that Harvard’s museums, with their intimate gallery size, minimal gift shop and well-staffed study rooms, provided the recipe that inspired the essay’s description of an ideal museum. By contrast, he worries that blockbuster exhibitions at other museums??which often have less of a focus on permanent collections than Harvard—can be too “discursive,” resulting in the curator constructing wall-text and catalogs for the show that obstruct looking at the actual pieces...
...bushido is just one of many aspects of the samurai that attracted Zwick to the film. His enthusiasm for Japanese history and culture blossomed from an academic interest to an personal one that included trips to museums??the feel of fabrics and swords and a slew of conversations with historians brought to life what had, until then, existed for him only in the abstract. Eventually, he says, his interest brought him to Japan...