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...Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir and other greats of the Western artistic tradition leave your soul unfulfilled, walk down Quincy Street to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard's newest museum, which houses Islamic, Asian and ancient...
...Sackler also holds temporary exhibits on the ground floor. The current show--the Fredric Wertham collection of abstract art produced during the 1920s and 1930s--offers a striking counter-point to Sackler's permanent collection. Included in the exhibit are a series of paintings by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (F. Scott's wife) that Wertham, a psychiatrist, obtained while he was treating her for schizophrenia...
...concrete posts in front of Sackler are not products of Le Corbusier's fascination with basic geometric forms (that's the Carpenter Center, remember). They are portions of a never-built overpass that would have connected Sackler to the Fogg. Since the Cambridge City Council nixed the plan, you will have to risk your life crossing Broadway, one of several streets in Cambridge where drivers have no concept of the the speed limit...
According to Neer, Harvard has vast resources in the fine arts that the department ignores. "There are thousands of artifacts in the Peabody museum and [the department] limits itself to art in the Fogg, the Busch and the Sackler [museums]," he said...
...Islamic art exhibit at the Sackler Museum opens the door to a fairy-tale world of noble kings, evil demons and enchanted forests. Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam is an unusually vivid and fascinating exhibit...