Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fogg where is treasured a secret as valuable as any the military might be keeping, they no longer like to discuss with outsiders the closer-to-home possibilities of the war. But war has come to The Fogg Art Museum, making itself felt in every department and function. Any conception the undergraduate might have of the "ivory tower" on Quincy Street would be shattered if he knew of the realistic defense measures taken by Director Edward W. Forbes and his staff...
...Manhattan's Whitney Museum hung 24 crayon sketches by Ferriss of the finest buildings the U.S. has put up in the past decade. Looming out of the mist like Manhattan at dawn were mighty grain elevators, dizzy-deep dams, steel and glass factories streamlined toward infinity, an outdoor amphitheater scooped like some monumental sculpture...
During a recent conference on "Emergency Protection of Works Of Art" held at the Fogg Museum, a broad program for care of art objects in war time was laid out and a detailed pamphlet on the subject issued, an article in the Alumni Bulletin appearing tomorrow relates...
Twenty-four prominent museum figures from art institutions throughout the East took part in the conference...
...exhibition as ugly as Sin, as shocking as a Coney Island horror house, small-town mayors, housing officials, clubwomen and school kids trooped into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. The museum had caged and displayed the "Housing Crime...