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...politics with their water. To quote a student, “it’s interesting having classes that mix patchouli eco-heads and Burberry collar-poppers.” ESPP (the syllabic friendly nickname) resides in the Harvard University Center for the Environment, located in the Natural History Museum. Some question the flat screen TV placed in a hallway, others wonder at the once-open-air 3-story footbridge entrance to the Center—but all agree, the free cookies and tea (organic, of course) make this small concentration a home, of sorts. ESPP comes with a hefty...
AFTER A $46 MILLION face-lift of its historic building and permanent collection, Paris' beloved Muse des Arts Dcoratifs will reopen its doors Sept. 15. The museum, which encompasses the northwest wing of the Louvre and has been a Parisian institution since 1905, has been closed for 10 years. The restored and redesigned galleries reflect a new approach to presentation. The permanent collection, with pieces ranging from furniture by Baroque master Andr-Charles Boulle to contemporary designs by Philippe Starck and Marc Newson, will be displayed chronologically and by artist or workshop, allowing visitors to understand the historical...
...Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design," which opens at the Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach, Fla., on Nov. 10, will offer visitors a unique take on more than 200 influential works by designers like Eliel Saarinen and Elsa Peretti, as well as historical artifacts. Blown-up advertisements will accompany the pieces to illustrate how taste has been influenced by and created for the American public...
...Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...wanted to find the very best museum who could handle this artwork and could also be scientific,” she said in an interview last month...