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University President Lawrence H. Summers and Professor of English and American Literature and Language Elisa New were married yesterday in a ceremony at Elmwood, the president’s residence. Summers, 51, smiled broadly as he arrived with New, 47, at a reception in the Fogg Art Museum following the wedding. The president embraced his mother, Anita A. Summers, as members of both families greeted each other on the steps of the Fogg. The museum, home to the University’s prized collections of early Renaissance and Impressionist artwork, was transformed for the evening into a modest reception hall...
...single digits--after all, student loans are much easier to pay off with a for-profit salary. And, says Greg Dees, faculty director of Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, "many students, if they heard 'nonprofit management,' would be thinking about running a museum, a hospital. That's not what excites them. What excites them is finding innovative entrepreneurial solutions to social problems...
...bandits" brutalized China throughout the 1930s and would do so today given half a chance. Although European colonial powers receive their share of censure, the main goal is keeping memories of Japanese conquest fresh. Thousands of students each day, for instance, take class trips to the Anti-Japanese War Museum in Beijing to view grainy photos of war atrocities-women raped and disemboweled, corpses of children stacked like cordwood. As one 15-year-old girl in a blue and yellow school uniform, Ji Jilan, emerged from a recent visit to the gallery, she told a TIME correspondent: "After seeing this...
...exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during the late colonial period, focusing on the evolution of the former toward European styles and the latter toward more traditional Indian designs. A series of gallery talks and lectures throughout the semester will accompany the show. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK) Stratification: An Installation of Works Since 1960. Through Feb. 26, 2006. Curatorial intern M. Celka Straughn organized this exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces from the museum’s collection. Several undergraduates were also involved in the project and will...
...November 16, 2005. Located within the Sackler’s East Asian collection, the artwork is fascinating for any animal lover or Asian art aficionado. Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, organized “Animal Motifs.”Mowry said that “this is the first time we’ve developed the theme of animals in Asian Art.” The pieces are eclectic, including scrolls, sliding door screens, ceramic pendants, and even a bridled...