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Today Harvard Art Museums--the Fogg, the Arthur M. Sackler and the Busch Reisinger is among the finest university museum systems in the world. Only the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford or the Fritz Williams at Cambridge can compare in overall quality of collections and teaching facilities, and both are much older than the Fogg...
...practice, this allows paintings or sculptures to be viewed in ways no conventional museum would attempt. Currently at the Sackler, Masterworks of East Asian Painting demonstrates one such type of unique execution by displaying seven centuries of painting developments together on the same walls. "We might juxtapose objects historically related over centuries and examine the connection," explains Curator of Paintings and Sculpture lvan Gaskell. "We're interested in the application of ideas to the object, in contingency, so that objects remain alive, so that they are deployed rather than simply existing...
Some describe sackler Museum, down the street from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the rooftiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle for its second choices, orange and gray...
Harvard planned to build a bridge across Broadway, connecting the Sackler and the Fogg, hence the presence of phallic green pillars outside Sackler. But Cambridge residents protested, saying the bridge would divide the city...
...will speak about Vincent Van Gogh; Yule F. Heibel, independent scholar will speak about Wassily Kandinsky; Robert J. Boardingham, assistant curator, European Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Pablo Picasso and Hollis Clayson, professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University will speak about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 2:15 p.m. Free...