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...finding one at bargain-basement prices is-well-something like the nth power of a googolplex. But the bare possibility can turn the most level-headed curator into a creature half Hawkshaw, half Walter Mitty. Such was the spine-tingling predicament of Harvard's Fine Arts Chairman Seymour Slive. On a busman's holiday to Los Angeles, he had been casually shown an unsigned 17th century oil sketch, The Head of Christ, at the Paul Kantor Gallery. The glimpse proved unforgettable. Recalls Slive: "The left side of the face looks almost like a death's head...
Returning across the country on a camping trip with his wife and three children, Slive was haunted by the picture: "I know it "sounds corny, but I honestly had visions of that painting in the campfires." Back in Cambridge, he had the oil sketch shipped to him for closer inspection. Fogg Art Museum colleagues, including Jakob Rosenberg, scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive...
...nominees are Charles W. Eliot '20, professor of City and Regional Planning; Gregory Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T.; Kevin Lynch, professor of City and Regional Planning at M.I.T.; Jose Luis Sert, professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design; Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts; and Benjamin Thompson, Chairman of the School of Design...
Apparently no one had bothered to inform the nominees of their nomination. Professor Slive, when he learned of his nomination, said, "I've been out of town for a couple of days. I really don't know what it's all about. What does a director do anyway...
...works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique creations capable of evoking intense emotional responses. The sensual aspects of art are completely obscured by the intellectual. Of course, not all Fine Arts courses commit these sins (Professor Slive's are frequently mentioned as exceptions), but most do. As a result, students who are interested in the visual arts but have no desire to become art historians develop a rebellious attitude toward the whole academic system...