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...friends aren’t a bunch of bankers,” said Arne Glimcher after giving a lecture at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum to celebrate 40 years as the founder of PaceWildenstein, possibly the most influential modern art gallery of the second half of the 20th century...
What is the value of creation, when there is no permanent symbol of that creation? This is the central question of Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Brown Family, the current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt...
George Steiner, renowned writer, scholar and critic, gave his sixth and final lecture, titled “Unageing Intellect,” as the 2000-2001 Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry last night to great applause before an overflow crowd in Sackler Lecture Hall...
David Ferry can translate poetry from more languages than most of us could ever hope to learn, and his versatility is only surpassed by his virtuosity. Ferry delivered a delightful poetry reading last Friday night at the Sackler Art Museum that featured selections from his new translation of The Epistles of Horace (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Reading both from the new translation and from works previously published, Ferry demonstrated to everyone present why he has long been regarded as one of the best translators of poetry into English...
Recently, however, it has become clear that significant parts of that world have been ignored. While the Fogg itself houses mostly European art, the Sackler shows Asian and Islamic art and the Busch-Reisinger shows Eastern and Northern European Art, art of Southern and Latin America is often ignored, as is the art of Africa...