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...Fogg Art Museum is getting gussied up, $400,000 worth. The refurbishment and rearranging is expected to be finished in October, around the time that the new Sackler Wing is due to open. Reconstruction on the 59-year-old Fogg building will allow the museum to exhibit more of its Western Art collection...
...Fogg Art Museum is getting gussied up, $400,000 worth. The refurbishment and rearranging is expected to be finished in October, around the time that the new Sackler Wing is due to open. Reconstruction on the 59-year-old Fogg building will allow the museum to exhibit more of its Western Art collection...
...Fogg Art Museum is getting gussied up, $400,000 worth. The refurbishment and rearranging is expected to be finished in October, around the time that the new Sackler Wing is due to open. Reconstruction on the 59-year-old Fogg building will allow the museum to exhibit more of its Western Art collection...
These surrealist collages have become Stirling's signature, and the Sackler, which will house part of the collection of Harvard's venerable Fogg Art Museum, is the first American showcase for his impudent style. Critics generally praised the architect's drawings when they were first shown four years ago. Ada Louise Huxtable remarked, "The building is remarkable for the creative virtuosity with which its functions are accommodated while suggesting a monumentality that belies actual dimensions." She added, "This is not easy architecture. And it is not innocent architecture. It is knowledgeable, worldly, elitist and difficult...
Stirling's growing reputation belies the controversy surrounding his work. A 59-year-old Scotch architect of imposing girth but unpretentious manner, he was little known in the U.S. when Harvard selected him in 1979 from among some 70 competitors for the Sackler job. Since then, he has won the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the international $100,000 Pritzker Prize and some of England's and West Germany's choicest commissions, including an addition to the Tate Gallery in London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject...