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...Dutch town of Nijmegen, 60 km southeast of Utrecht, there's a rare opportunity to see the real thing. For the first time since the 15th century, brothers Herman, Paul and Jean Limbourg's brilliant and colorful miniature illuminations will be shown together at the Valkhof Museum in "The Limbourg Brothers, Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)" until Nov. 20. The exhibition shows four out of six surviving manuscripts, which the brothers illuminated while in residence at the Paris court from 1400 to 1416 - the year all three died, presumably from the plague. It also places the works...
...office building that Harvard recently purchased in Allston is being considered as a site to house some of the University’s art collection during a future renovation of the Fogg Art Museum...
...Fogg Art Museum on Quincy Street has not been renovated since its construction in 1927. It is not handicapped-accessible or climate-controlled, and only 1 to 2 percent of the museum’s collections can be displayed for visitors...
...Abrahams said space at the Fogg Art Museum is so limited that it was only natural to look at the possibility that the Soldiers Field Road building or whichever temporary space was chosen could play a longer-term role...
...Every museum is faced with growing collections,” she said. “One solution is to have a second facility. That may be this building or a different...