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Going through "Goya: Images of Women," the exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington by the leading American Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson--it is a somewhat truncated version of a large show that was seen at the Prado in Madrid last winter--one realizes what depth and intensity Goya brought to seeing his world. The late 18th and early 19th century in Europe had portraitists who could extract gripping narratives of sympathy and experience from the individual human face and body. Delacroix, Ingres, David--it is a long and glorious list. But the most fascinating of them...
Summers bid the China scholar well with a Chinese expression of good luck meaning, “I wish you a prosperous wind...
Kirby’s background as a scholar of Chinese history will balance a University administration, which features an economist and a scientist at the top, but had little representation from the humanities at its highest levels. This balance will help ensure the liberal arts are not neglected...
...director of the Asia Center and a China scholar, Kirby is particularly well-suited to the task of making Harvard a presence in the global academy. He said expanding the Faculty’s focus on international studies will involve both developing programs at Harvard that deal with other parts of the world and increasing study abroad opportunities...
Summers lauded Kirby’s accomplishments as a professor, scholar and administrator...