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...these visits to the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Sackler Museums, just 6,200, less than eight percent, were by Harvard graduate and undergraduate students. Based on interviews with students, the number of students visiting is likely even lower for Harvard's non-art oriented museums, like the Peabody Museum and Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...those who have wondered why President Rudenstine (or his standin) would agree to spend Commencement Day perched in the world's most torturous-looking chair, the Sackler's new show, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, provides no answers. It does, however, remind us that Harvard's museums are more than a place to temporarily dispose of loved ones when Parent's Weekend begins to pall. The exhibit raises a labyrinth of confounding problems that transcend the hothouse world of museums to intrude on our faith in the definition of American culture...
...exhibits dealing with AIDS, including one titled "Death Sentence" by Catherine Corman '96, will be on display in the Sackler Museum and the Science Center for the week...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art named Glenn Lowry its new director. Lowry, 40, is a somewhat surprising choice to head the world's pre-eminent collection of 20th century art; an Islamic art expert, he has curated the Near Eastern treasures of the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries. "He doesn't want to be a curator; he wants to be an administrator," explained MOMA board chairman Agnes Gund. "At the same time, he understands what a curator does...
...students were allowed to watch tapes of the first two lectures, when Sackler auditorium was so full that some students had to listen from outside, said Joel O. Ying '95, another student in the course...