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...Fogg Art Museum hosted an unusual crowd last night, when its Italian Renaissance sculptures and 19th century French paintings were surrounded by undergraduates with greasy Felipe’s burritos and giant pizzas in hand bopping to a rock guitar tune. The occasion was the first of three “Night at the Fogg” events held by the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of Harvard Art Museums (OUR HUAM), aimed at encouraging more undergraduates to take advantage of Harvard’s art collection, sixth largest in the country according to the museum’s Director...
...Crimson reported earlier this month on several large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art on campus including “Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art” at the Fogg Museum which ended Oct. 15 and “German Art of the 1980s from the Heliod Spiekermann Collection,” at the Busch-Reisinger Museum which runs through...
...Nights” at the Harvard University Art Museums. Specifically, these will be nights when the museums stay open late for students, and ply visitors with free food, entertainers, and student gallery talks. The first such event will take place next Thursday, Nov. 2 at the Fogg Museum from 7-9 p.m. “We just really want students to realize what an amazing resource they have, and that the museum is really theirs,” Spies-Gans says. “It has developed into something amazing,” she writes in an e-mail...
...objects interred inside,” Lippit explained. “These sort of sculptures were often hollowed out and filled with devotional objects. It generates karmic merit for the [person who commissioned it].” This sculpture is currently on view on the second floor of the Fogg Museum. According to Mowry, Sedgwick wanted to contribute something to the Harvard University museums that would strengthen the Chinese collection while complimenting existing holdings. Harvard already has renowned collections of early Chinese jade and bronze, as well as later Chinese ceramic, but had few pieces of early ceramic. With...
...Smear Vaseline on Our Legs With a Pipe” aren’t words that one would necessarily expect to see enacted within the hallowed halls of Harvard’s Fogg Museum. But every weekend since June, in a second-floor room roughly the size of a closet, a T.V. screen has been displaying precisely that...