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Harvard students may be forced into cramped rooms in awful-smelling dorms, but they can hang artwork by Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns on their walls. The Student Rental Program at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum allows students to rent highly valued artwork each fall for only $25, $45, or—at the very most?...
During the first week of classes every September, hundreds of Harvard students flock to the Fogg Museum in hopes of choosing from the best selection of prints. According to Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, the program offers artwork by young, emerging artists as well as works by famous artists like Joan Miro and Robert Rauschenberg...
...order to get the best prints, however, you must be fast, warns Luke M. Appling ’06, who has rented twice from the Fogg. Appling arrived at the museum at noon on the first day of rentals in September and was shocked at how limited the selection had already become after only three or four hours...
...that is opens there are 100 students waiting outside the door of the museum and there is a big rush to grab the perennial favorites,” says Dackerman...
...supposed to be a professional photography competition; it’s for students to share their experiences abroad,” DiMauro said. Although each photo had a story, some stories were more compelling for contest judge Deborah Martin-Kao, the Curator of Photography at the Fogg Art Museum. She found winning visions in four categories: landscape, sense of place and culture, people, and architecture. “I looked for photos that created a visceral sense of being in a place or worked against a stereotype,” Martin-Kao said. She added that she was conscious...