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...juniors then exchanged answers with their parents. Many campus organizations opened up their doors to parents throughout the weekend—including The Bureau of Study Counsel and The Office of Career Services. Guided Tours of the Art Museums also speckled the afternoon, including exhibits at the Fogg, Sackler, and Peabody Museums. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross and President Lawrence H. Summers each greeted the parents in Sanders Theatre (see stories, page 1). While many students were taking their parents around, a portion of the student population said they couldn’t have their parents here...
...Eye”: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap. Through Mar. 12. Fogg Museum.To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop. Ongoing. Fogg Museum.Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art. Through June 11. Sackler Museum.Frank Stella 1958. Through May 7. Sackler Museum...
Walking into “Frank Stella 1958,” the special exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...
...antiquities obtained in archaeological expeditions in Iran in the 1930s “may be the property of Iran.”The suit lays claim to “all objects...that are the property of the Islamic Republic of Iran” held in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Semitic Museum, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.The plaintiffs’ only specifically identify a set of six limestone relief fragments from the site of Persepolis in southwestern Iran, on display on the third floor of the Sackler...
...between in Cambridge. Even animals are hard to find in the Yard.Just outside its gates, however, they’re flourishing. And these aren’t your garden variety birds or 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...