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The Met's architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple...
Students at Harvard 75 years later have a difficult time imagining the thrill their forebearers experienced when they entered the Yard during the twentieth century's first decade. After all, only the most ardent iconoclasts could pass through the Yard on a tranquil, sunlit afternoon and fail to delight in...
Meanwhile, University officials announce that only 90 students, most of them freshmen, have enrolled in Core courses for the spring semester. Moral Reasoning 78, "The String Quartet in 17th Century Austrian Suburbs," with an enrollment of six, is the most popular. "We seem to be encountering some resistance," W.C. Burriss...
To a bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse...
The Shock of the New (PBS). A spirited tour, in an eight-part series, by TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes through the art and architecture of that most difficult of all centuries, the 20th.