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This year’s show features work by Lizi Brown, Michael Bühler-Rose, Liz Cohen, Wendy Jean Hyde, and Christopher Lamberg-Karlovsky. It’s surely a daunting proposition for any emerging artist to share a roof with the likes of Rembrandt and Van Gogh, but this year’s crop largely stands up to the challenge. The stand-out is Lamberg-Karlovsky whose “erasure” and “archival” series explore the issue of memory in diverse ways...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MFA Offers Young Artists Space to Exhibit Their Collections | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Etruscan, Greek, Chinese, and Islamic vases find a place among the vast collection of the Harvard Art Museum alongside the work of European masters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. Only a few blocks away, Pueblo ceramics from the American Southwest and pottery from the Moche civilization in Peru reside in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. While the few blocks that separate the museums are rather small, the assumptions motivating the division between art objects and ethnographic objects are significant. Recently, though, steps have been taken both on and off campus to complicate the division between fine...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Kennaugh recently retired from his post as an oncologist at HMS and his appointment at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Kennaugh and Amadio had over 100 pieces in their collection, according to Amadio, and works by Matisse, Rembrandt, Miro, Renoir, and Pollock are among the art that the two allege was stolen...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspects Identified in Art Theft | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...owners of the artwork, retired Harvard doctor Ralph Kennaugh and Angelo B. Amadio, reported that the stolen art included works by Matisse, Miro, Rembrandt, and Renoir. The most valuable piece was a Jackson Pollock painting estimated to be worth $20 million.The paintings were part of a collection of over 100 pieces of artwork...

Author: By CAROLINE A. SOLOMON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Doctor’s Paintings Stolen | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...hometown of Linz, Austria. By stocking it with the world's greatest works of art, he hoped to showcase the superiority of Aryan artists over their supposedly "degenerate" Jewish counterparts. Within months of invading Poland in 1939, Nazi troops began seizing selected pieces - including paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt and Vermeer - from churches, museums and private art collections. The artworks were then hidden in mines and remote castles for safekeeping until the war ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied Art Hunters: Saving Beauty | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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