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Renzo Piano—the prize-winning architect who was tapped to renovate the Fogg Art Museum and design a new art museum in Allston—described the difficulties of the upcoming projects to a packed Sanders Theatre audience last night. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
According to Harvard University Art Museums’ (HUAM) Director of Communications Daron J. Manoogian, Piano’s renovations will preserve the historic elements of the 1927 Fogg Museum’s original building while adding a new wing to the museum. This large wing will take the place of a series of previous additions, which have been added piecemeal to the Fogg over the past 80 years...
...Warhol-ics. Warhol's Wide World at the Grand Palais museum in Paris is the first exhibition of 250 Andy Warhol paintings and prints - about 150 of which are coming out of private collections for the first time. Six Concorde Hotels & Resorts located around Paris have an exclusive partnership with the museum to give their guests VIP tickets (you'll get to jump to the front of the line to see what some people are calling one of the biggest art events of the year). If you really want to keep with the art theme, ask for the Pissarro suite...
...come charges that Schaeffler's kin profited from Hitler's gassing of Jews in Auschwitz. Jacek Lachendro, deputy director of the Auschwitz Museum's research department, told Spiegel TV, a German program associated with the weekly newsmagazine, that bales of human hair, which are still on exhibit in the Auschwitz Museum, were found at a factory in Kietrz, Poland, at the end of World War II. The hair, allegedly from victims gassed at the infamous concentration camp, was supposedly used to manufacture upholstery and carpets. The factory's name was Teppichfabrik G. Schoeffler AG. "Our historians say Schoeffler is Schaeffler...
Speaking for the family, Schöllgen says the Auschwitz Museum's claims are actually based on the records of another company that absorbed the Schaeffler's Kiertz operations, so there is no direct link to the family's company. Schöllgen says if the Schaefflers were involved in Holocaust crimes, then documentation should exist. The Nazis treated the material coming out of the camps like they were trading cotton rather than the remains of human beings, Schöllgen says, and he has come across no documents such as order forms or any receipts linking Schaeffler to the hair. Says Sch?...