Word: sert
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...That evening, a “family party” was held in honor of the opening of the Carpenter Center, with guests including then-University President Nathan M. Pusey, patrons Mr. and Mrs. St. Vrain Carpenter, Dean of the Graduate School of Design José Luis Sert, and his wife Moncha Sert. To inaugurate the building—the first in North America designed by architectural great Le Corbusier—the university luminaries in attendance splashed champagne on the ramp, leaving a stain on its rough concrete...
...Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance,” the new exhibition at the Sert Gallery, serves as an accompaniment to Professor Henri Zerner’s popular introductory course in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, HAA-10. The exhibitions touches on a similarly broad range of themes and works as the course, with an impressive display of different media—including paintiing, sculpture and prints—as well as rare works. The exhibition will run until April...
...keeping you up?” he quizzes me minutes after sitting down at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery café. “You look like you’re dozing off. I can get you a cup of coffee...
...patriarchs and presidents, it is surprising that a completely non-representational painter such as Rothko would receive approval from the Corporation for such a prominent display. On the other hand, Pusey had demonstrated his tolerance for modernism by giving university projects to Graduate School of Design Dean Josep Luis Sert, and by commissioning Le Corbusier to design the university’s new Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...though a dining room was likely not the best setting for these paintings, which both Sert and Pusey observed as soon as they were installed, it is quite remarkable that Rothko was chosen at all. The commission represented a progressive step in the direction of modern art, and a willingness to depart from Georgian traditionalism, on the part of the Harvard Corporation...