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...their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire, The Romans of the Decadence, ancestor of all Cecil B. DeMille orgies. In the distance, on a raised loft that stood where the trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble nipple of a luscious demimondaine writhing naked among stone roses, once the sensation of the salon of 1847, whose model had been apostrophized by Baudelaire...
Some have argued that the project is not succeeding because of inadequate funding. A writer recently used this space to tell us of paint and plaster from his newly renovated ceiling falling on his bed each night. But sloppy work and poor funding only capture part of the problem. Because the idea behind the renovations is itself deeply flawed, the Quad will remain, even after renovations are completed, the river's sloppy second...
Though the Busch-Reisinger was tailor-made for large plaster casts--not for the collection of paintings and sculpture now housed there--it does provide the coherence of one roof over a single collection. It is important academically that the University maintain the integrity of the collection in transfering it to the Fogg. One of the criticisms of the Busch is that it has hosted fewer and fewer visitors in recent years. We trust that--under the relocation plan--that trickle of visitors will not become a gathering of dust in a basement of the Fogg...
...FIRST-FLOOR room in Barnard Hall--the newest of all Harvard buildings--the roof leaks plaster onto my bed every night...
...many of them already have cracks in the plaster and peeling paint. This after less than a year of occupancy. Surely $20 million plus ought to have bought renovations that would last longer than a year...