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Citing the reopening of the Busch-Reisinger Museum in 1991 and the Fogg Art Museum's upcoming centennial as a perfect time for a transition in leadership, Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums Edgar P. Bowron yesterday announced that he will resign this June...
...achieved a lot since he's been here," said Peter Nisbet, associate curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. "He has really helped us focus on problems of all museums and university museums in particular...
...students were given the Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting, a new award created in honor of the late Philip Hofer '21, founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library and secretary of the Fogg Art Museum...
Freitag said he and the other two judges, Eleanor M. Garvey, the Philip Hofer curator of printing and graphic arts, and John M. Rosenfield, the Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art and a curator of the Fogg Art Museum, chose two winners and two honorable mentions because the entries were so good...
...jewelry uncovered this year gives a new perspective to the Assyrian empire's brutish reputation. "What is surprising is the amazing variety," says Herrmann. "It is not just the gold, but the different colors and the use of polychromatic stones." Agrees Curtis of the British Museum: "It revolutionizes the idea we have of the Assyrian court. No one knew they ^ possessed this kind of wealth or that the craftsmanship could be so fine...