New spaces for old friends
For Boston-area art lovers, the completion the new Harvard Art Museums facility at 32 Quincy St. can’t come soon enough. In recent months, the museums have released more details about the opening of the space, slated for fall 2014, and any passerby on Quincy Street can attest to the project’s progress, as the Renzo Piano-designed glass roof takes shape. But what will become of the art itself in its new home? On Wednesday evening, Harvard curators offered a glimpse of how the museums’ beloved collections will be showcased in the new building, with a nod toward the thoughtful, the innovative, and the interactive. Since the building that housed the Fogg Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum closed in 2008, the curatorial staff has been hard at work “visualizing old friends in new surroundings,” Miriam Stewart, curator of the museums’ collection of European and American art, told a crowd of curious patrons at the...