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...Thus the guards themselves—six for the entire Sackler??act as little more than a deterrent to art heist. Their training includes a little self-defense, but the guards interviewed say they could not stop an armed robbery. “Primarily it’s just being here as a presence to discourage theft,” the first guard says. “If they came in with arms, we would let them take it [the targeted piece] and call the authorities...
...most recent form of which is the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum—a significant amount of work goes into keeping one thing from ever changing in Harvard’s art world–the artwork itself. Beyond the glass encasements of the Sackler??s most treasured pieces and the miles of cluttered stacks that inundate Widener, Lamont, and Harvard’s many other libraries stand two centers in charge of ensuring that these objects are preserved: the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and the Weissman Preservation Center. Although the technicians...
...University Art Museums. “I think we’ll actually be able to do more,” she says, “because it’s forced us to be creative.” But Blackstock, Vice President of OUR MUSE, worries that the Sackler??s museum space may be less inviting to students than the Fogg was. “The question is, how can we get people over the fear of going into museums?” she says. “The majority of our events were focused around gathering...
...three shows, the Sackler??s “The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions” conforms least to the average Cambridge-dweller’s expectations of “contemporary...
...squirrels, either: they’re dragons, gibbons, and even phoenixes, all part of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s newest exhibition: “Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art,” which opened on November 16, 2005. Located within the Sackler??s East Asian collection, the artwork is fascinating for any animal lover or Asian art aficionado. Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, organized “Animal Motifs...