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The show may be a case of inside baseball, appealing to a small group of art history majors and museum lovers. But it offers a fascinating look at innovation at one of the country’s most revered, and most traditional, colleges.
This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.
MIT’s loss is Harvard’s gain.
Both of these exhibits are examples of the artist as a 21st century shaman — a prophetic, as well as a creative, force.
This inspiring show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Bauhaus.
Rembrandt’s casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there’s no trick, it’s the genuine miracle of talent.
The premise of the show, and especially the catalogue, is to put Corita Kent her rightful place in the pantheon of major American Pop artists
Arts Commentary: The Distance Between Us and the Museum
By Mark Pawlak For a working-class kid from Buffalo who once saw museums as places for other people, a lifetime among Cambridge and Boston collections became an education in class, access, exclusion, and the complicated act of looking. Any Sunday when the weather turns—low gray clouds, steady rain, the threat of snow—my thoughts drift toward…
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