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...paintings of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger collections have already moved out of 32 Quincy Street. Early this summer, the 434,000 books, periodicals, and auction catalogs and over 1 million photographs and prints of the Fine Arts Library collection will also leave. As renovations to the Harvard Art Museum building begin, the Fine Arts Library is gearing up to move to two temporary locations in the basements of the Sackler Museum and Littauer Center. Transporting this huge volume of materials, however, is no easy task. Preparations for the move have been underway for nearly two years. The digital images...
...Valley or were from the region. The Philip Hofer Prize, established to foster students’ interest in collecting, was founded in honor of Philip Hofer ’21, the first Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and Secretary of the Fogg Art Museum. To enter, students were required to submit a 2,500-word essay describing the meaning and sentimentality of their collections in addition to annotated bibliographies detailing the items. Hope Mayo, Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in Houghton Library, served as the judge of the Philip...
...Idea Translation” was the birthplace of MuseTrek, an application developed by Umar and Milo M. Harman ’08. Described by Edwards as a blend between YouTube and a Wikipedia devoted to art, MuseTrek—which has already undergone trial runs at the Fogg and the Louvre Museums—allows visitors to experience artwork through the eyes of another individual. The device uses the iPhone as its platform to store ‘Treks’; visitors can access routes through the museum and retrace their owners’ steps while reading an accompanying narrative...
...entire construction project, which involves the demolition of old wings and the construction of the expansion, is expected to take three years, and the move back into the building and is expected to take another year. The expanded Fogg is scheduled to re-open...
...April 3 news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...