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...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles lays off eight staff members at Harvard's Semitic Museum in an attempt to curb the musuem's $1 million deficit. The layoffs set off a string of attacks by staff members and financial supporters of the museum against the administration and museum director Dorot Professor of Archaeology Lawrence E. Stager. A staff of two is later rehired...
Stager has said that when he came to the museumin 1986 he was hopeful about curing the musuem'sfinancial woes, but the museum's deficit datedback even further. The museum's deficit has beengrowing steadily since...
Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Rudenstine--Through Aug. 9. Sackler Musuem. Tour given Friday Feb. 28 by Jim Cuno, director of Harvard Museums. Meet in museum lobby...
...addition, The Fogg has placed a plaque beneath one of the musuem's most important paintings, Ingres' Raphael and the Fornarina, in memory of the painting's restorer, who recently died of AIDS...
While the musuem should be lauded for deciding to return these artifacts, the phrase "held in trust"--which appeared in the September 21 issue of the Harvard Gazette--reflects the persistent and troubling assumption that museums and collectors have certain inalienable rights to the works of art they hold. This assumption is particularly pervasive in the cases of art from non-Western cultures acquired during turbulent eras...