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100 years of Harvard University Press

100 years of Harvard University Press

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  • Assessment of the Moche Archive at Dumbarton Oaks

    Written by Lisa Trever, Tyler Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies PhD in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks is the new home of the Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland Moche Archive, 1968–2010. The archive was given to the institution by Dr. Read More…

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  • Nevelson’s Night Wall I Returns

    Friday, May 17, 2013 - 13:58 Louise Nevelson’s steel sculpture, Night Wall I (1972), had stood outside Harvard’s Pound Hall for 25 years, and it showed. Read More…

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  • Modeling the Museums

    Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 14:15 How do you curate a space that doesn’t exist yet?Enlist Boston model maker Architectural Illusions to create three floors of gallery space in miniature, all to scale. Read More…

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  • Catching flux

    Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Read More…

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  • Closing Galleries before We Open Our Doors

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 12:36 One final New England winter stands between the closing of the current Arthur M. Sackler Museum galleries at the end of regular hours on June 1, and the opening of our renovated facility in the fall of 2014. Full story Read More…

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  • Cicadas Cicadas Cicadas

    It’s just about cicada time here on the East Coast, when millions (billions?) of these strange, noisy creatures will make their way up through the dirt, looking for love. They’ve been waiting down there in wingless nymph form, feeding on... Read More…

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  • Happy Birthday to Joseph Pulitzer Jr.!

    Monday, May 13, 2013 - 10:51 In honor of the centenary of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth on May 13, 1913, we asked Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., to share a highlight of her findings. Full Story Read More…

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  • The Leading Protagonist: Thomas Whittemore

    Written by Laurian Douthett, former Archivist Assistant Edited by Rona Razon and Beth Bayley Thomas Whittemore passed away over half a century ago, but traces of his presence can still be found in archival collections, articles, fictional books, and films. Read More…

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  • Setting the Stage: Background on the Byzantine Institute

    Written by Rona Razon, Archivist Edited by Beth Bayley, Archivist Assistant Thomas Whittemore’s professional goals had many manifestations, from meeting notes, to gorgeous colored pencil drawings in notebooks, and to oversize watercolor paintings of saints and religious scenes. Read More…

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