January 24, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

A picture's worth 1,000 prejudices
Fogg exhibit of Middle East travel images shows politics behind postcards
A new exhibit at the Fogg Museum documents the ways in which 19th-century photography mediated Western audiences' encounters with the East.

Art Museums appoint renowned conservator
James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the Whitney Museum.

Veiled messages Curator Jülide Acker on a 19th-century travel photo of Syria: "Audiences of the time would have recognized in the once-lofty capital an implicit metaphor for the decline of the civilization that erected it, while the sleeping boy would have figured as a reflection on the state of the current inhabitants of the Middle East..." Full story

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