Campus museums and art centers in the USA (2)

At Harvard, Mr. Lentz, a scholar of ancient and Islamic art and a longtime museum administrator, arrived in 2003 believing that his biggest job would be to unite three museums: the Fogg (Western art), the Sackler (Asian, Islamic and Indian) and the Busch-Reisinger (German and northern European) on Quincy Street, […]

Campus museums and art centers in the USA (1)

Closed for six years, the Harvard Art Museums reopen after a radical overhaul by the architect Renzo Piano. Galleries wrap the new public space, but so do a materials lab, an art-conservation suite and a study center, where students, faculty and visitors can learn from the collection of 250,000 objects. […]

Harvard Art Museums Returns

Harvard has everything: a faculty packed with Nobel’s Prizes, the world’s largest private library system, an alumnus in the White House, and an endowment larger than most countries’ GDP. But for the past six years it has had to make do without a place to display its art. The oldest […]