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...served a bit of sherbet "to refresh the palate." Yet in feasting on art, the viewer usually plunges from room to room, and his retinas, unrefreshed between rich courses, cry for cool relief. Such, at least, seems to be the art-gastronomy theory of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; as the architect of a new museum in the south of France, he solves this and a number of other gallerygoers' problems...
...long owned a wooded hilltop a mile from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the Cóte d'Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...
Light is the most vexing problem in any museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and doors snap shut like those in a sub marine if any art object is touched...
Dean Jose Luis Sert of the Faculty of Design announced last week that Benjamin Thompson, Cambridge architect and planning adviser for schools and colleges, will be chairman of the Department of Architecture in the School of Design. Mr. Thompson, now a professor of Architecture, was responsible for the conversion of Harvard's 100-years-old Boylston Hall into a Modern Language Center, and for various renovations of older dormitories in Harvard Yard...
Dean Jose Luis Sert, whose architectural firm realized Le Corbusier's plans, will comment on the building. Dean Ford will preside, and President Pusey will perform the dedication. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, whose gift made the Center possible, will speak briefly...