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...small, gray room that holds the exhibit’s 52 photographs could easily be part of one. But in order to catch the collection of works by Alex MacLean, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Camilo José Vergara, students have to walk past the Fogg and the Sackler and head to the Harvard Museum of Natural History instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena one might never notice if these images weren’t so exquisitely captured, mounted, and brought together. After seeing Alex MacLean’s aerial shots, I was motivated...
...early Chinese ceramics. “This will complete our already outstanding collecting…it puts us in a position of international prominence,” said Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky curator of Chinese art and head of the department of Asian art at the Sackler Museum. The Japanese items include three superb examples of early Buddhist sculpture. “Each one of these sculptures is of national treasure quality,” Mowry said. The highlight, however, is a sculpture of Prince Shotoku, dated to 1292, which Mowry described as “magnificent...
...Poster Tapes,” which themselves are only one part of “Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art.” The exhibition, along with its equally contemporary counterparts at the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, represents a heightened commitment on the part of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) to collecting and showcasing contemporary...
...Flat” collection is a beautiful, yet ambiguous exploration of the lives of children in a small community in Eastern California. Culled from films and photographs made by Lockhart during her three-year part-time residency in Pine Flat, the exhibition currently resides at Harvard’s Sackler Museum. The films, like their titles—”Hunter,” “Harmonica,” “Kissing,” and “Guns in Rain”—tend to be compositionally simple, but not simplistic. Each...
...basis, you’ll be relaxing quietly in a dark lecture hall looking at pictures. Maybe you can even sit in the back and take a midday nap. It’s like preschool all over again. You’ll spend much of your time at the Sackler and Fogg museums, which is great, because some serious learning gets done there. Enjoy exploring undiscovered pathways like the gruleings four-floor climb to your section in the Fogg. Feel proud of yourself as you learn to use the left staircase at the Sackler to avoid the normal pedestrian traffic...