Word: musuems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Museums, it has been said, are the modern cathedrals. Richard Meier's Los Angeles Getty Musuem, Frank Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim--these are the seats of present-day architectural spectacle and wonder. This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest award) demonstrated his own ability to generate that sense of wonder. It was, indeed, a grand Piano performance...
...union were even more dissatisfied with Local 254. They did not believe that Local 254 could adequately represent them and longer, and accused it of cozying up to the University. "Many people think the leadership of 254 had to be sleeping under a crimson -colored blanket," said one musuem guard. These doubts about the management of Local 254 were the main contributing factor to the creation of the new union...
...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...