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...spreads out across the center: transformation. The word serves as a harbinger, a visible indicator of the drastic changes that have and will continue to transform the arts at Harvard. Yet despite this push for reform—the most recent form of which is the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum—a significant amount of work goes into keeping one thing from ever changing in Harvard’s art world–the artwork itself. Beyond the glass encasements of the Sackler’s most treasured pieces and the miles of cluttered stacks that inundate...
Renzo Piano—the prize-winning architect who was tapped to renovate the Fogg Art Museum and design a new art museum in Allston—described the difficulties of the upcoming projects to a packed Sanders Theatre audience last night. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
According to Harvard University Art Museums’ (HUAM) Director of Communications Daron J. Manoogian, Piano’s renovations will preserve the historic elements of the 1927 Fogg Museum’s original building while adding a new wing to the museum. This large wing will take the place of a series of previous additions, which have been added piecemeal to the Fogg over the past 80 years...
...news article "Fogg Architect Describes Plans" incorrectly stated that the architect Renzo Piano was slated to design a new art museum in Allston. In fact, Piano was not tapped to design the Allston museum, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake...
...according to the ICA’s “OBEY” brochure) while an undergraduate at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 90s. His work was also brought onto the Harvard campus two years ago by Susan Dackerman, curator of prints at the Fogg Art Museum, in conjunction with the show “Dissent!,” which focused on the use of printing to express protest and subversive messages. Though none of Fairey’s works appeared within the museum’s galleries, it was part of advertising efforts on behalf...