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...most striking pieces in "End of Time," the career retrospective of legendary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto now running at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is a portrait of Japan's controversial World War II and postwar Emperor, Hirohito. The black-and-white, 1.5 m by 1.2 m print is astonishing in its crisp detail. Hirohito is seated and wearing full morning dress, and every crease of his jowl, every fold of his trousers, every line on the knuckles of his fingers is finely articulated. It is almost as if the Emperor is sitting there, in the museum, 17 years...
...brilliance of the work rests not just upon the quality of the print's resolution, however, but also upon this conceptual turn: the photo is not really of the Emperor, but of his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. Wax statues look almost laughably fake in person, but Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII...
...Visitors can take a narrated multimedia tour through the basement and first two floors. "This is not a museum with stuff behind glass and people peering over the red ropes,'' Balisciano says, citing the accompanying sound-and-light show that recaps Franklin's London years. After three centuries, the house in which he spent them has been reinvented. benjaminfranklinhouse.org
...first-come, first-serve basis—no preference on recruiting,” Saunders said. “We try to have a little bit of everything.” The Institute of Politics pitched political and public-service internships abroad, while the Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College boasted a new program that aims to teach students how art museums work. WorldTeach, which is based at the Kennedy School of Government, allows individuals to live and work as teachers in developing countries. At another table, the New England Aquarium offered a variety of internships dealing...
...cleaning their teeth.” “It happens often,” he said. “It doesn’t only happen above water.” Funding for the project came from a variety of sources, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, according to Nweeia. The ASC provided organizational help, as well as some research grants and much information about the Inuits, said Fitzhugh...