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...Monet's home at Giverny, an hour outside of Paris. In the years after his death in 1926, the delicate, light-sensitive engravings were largely replaced with copies. Now the originals can be seen again, until Feb. 25, in "Claude Monet's Japanese Prints" at Paris' Marmottan Monet Museum...
...Culturally precious, yes, but do they belong in a modern art museum? Designed to be sat and slept on rather than scrutinized, these textile treasures, which are typically stacked high to connote social standing, delightfully confound our expectations of contemporary art. So how does Finau Mara's exquisitely woven baby mat fit with, say, British artist Tracey Emin's unmade bed? It was exactly this outsider status that made the QAG's curator of contemporary Pacific art, Maud Page, excited about bringing such material into a gallery. As she puts it, "How can we deal with the rest...
Harvard once employed its security guards directly, and those guards enjoyed membership in the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize...
...obsessed with cameras since buying his first as a teenager, Hosoe is recognized today as one of Japan's greatest and most remarkable photographers. A major exhibition of his work, covering pieces from as far back as the 1960s (including images never previously exhibited), runs at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography until Jan. 28. For more details, see tokyo-photo-museum.or.jp
...fact, Hyman says he has "unfinished business" that he’d like to see through, including the establishment of a University science and engineering committee, the creation of the first University-wide academic departments, the renovation of the Fogg Art Museum, and "seeing Allston science be vibrant and interdisciplinary...