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...spontaneous snapshot of life on the streets hangs side-by-side with an intricately assembled digital montage in “Focus on South Asian Photography: Recent Works,” on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until May 6. Such juxtapositions are common throughout the showcase. But although its attempt to illustrate diversity is commendable, the exhibit’s scope is ultimately too large for the allotted number of works, forming a disjointed sampling—rather than a comprehensive collection—of photographs. DECEPTIVELY SMALL Curated by Kimberly Masteller, assistant curator of Islamic...
...bloodstream of art for good. Not only are there big, boisterous exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York City, but on March 23 feminist art's most resolute artifact, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, goes on permanent display in a specially constructed gallery within the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Say what you will about it, that it's middlebrow, elementary and literal-minded (which it is), but as a vessel to express a collective longing to rescue great women from oblivion, The Dinner Party has held its ground. In the absence...
...March 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sackler Museum. Limited space available...
More than two decades ago, the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) hatched a plan to build a skybridge between the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and the Fogg Art Museum. Designed to carry people and art, it offered the possibility of a physical link between museums that, although next door to each other, are seperated by more than just Broadway. The bridge never got built, but current plans for renovations and a new museum in Allston will seek to span the gaps in the University’s museums.Over the years, the University has always grappled with how to reconcile...
...represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard’s art museums, which include the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, contain more than 260,000 objects and acquire up to 3,000 new objects a year, according to HUAM’s registrar, Maureen I. Donovan. The museums’ endowment was $575 million as of Jan. 1, millions more than the endowments of other Ivy League museums.Lentz...