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This overview of objects drawn from the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums features new acquisitions and rarely displayed works together with well-known objects. In the first-floor gallery of European and American art since 1900 are paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Robert Gober, Victor Grippo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and others. The galleries on the second floor showcase the Sackler Museum’s collections of Asian and Islamic art from 5,000 BC to the present. Objects on display include archaic Chinese jades and ritual bronze vessels, Chinese and Korean ceramics, and Buddhist sculpture from India, China, and Korea, alongside examples of Islamic ceramic vessels and tiles, and bronzes. The reinstalled fourth-floor galleries present a broad chronological survey of works of Western art from antiquity until around 1900 that are juxtaposed to initiate new dialogues. Rotations of drawings, prints, and photographs throughout the galleries further expand upon these exchanges. A special display features disparate objects made from the same material; the first rotation focuses on bronze (January 31–August 18, 2012), the second will concentrate on wood (September 4, 2012–January 19, 2013), and the third on wax (January 29–June 1, 2013).

Re-View is on long-term display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at 485 Broadway while the Art Museums’ building at 32 Quincy Street—the former home of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums—is closed for renovation and expansion. The project will unite the three museums in a single, state-of-the-art facility designed by architect Renzo Piano, with completion anticipated in late 2013.

Re-View has been made possible by a generous grant from the NBT Charitable Trust, as well as the Art Museums’ Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund; Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb Exhibition Fund; and the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums.

Related event: Selections for Review: A New Installation of Western Art at the Harvard Art Museums, Gallery Talk, February 4, 2012, 11am. More

Related event: In-Sight Evening: Doris Salcedo, February 15, 2012, 6pm. More

Related event: The Bronze Age: Bronze as a Material from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century, Gallery Talk, March 10, 2012, 2pm. More

Related event: Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits: New Perspectives on a Civil War Painting, Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk, April 4, 2012, 3:30pm. More

Thematic Installations and Teaching Galleries

Thematic installations of objects within the exhibition Re-View are updated periodically, and a gallery on the fourth floor features installations tied to university courses (see separate listings for Thematic Installations and Teaching Galleries).