Art & Design: When Three Into One Equals More at Harvard Art Museums

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter
Stuart Cairns for The New York Times
MASSACHUSETTS---Six years is a long time for an art museum to go dark, and at Harvard, make that two museums, and eventually three. Now there’s a happy ending, and a beginning. As of last Sunday, the three museums, identities more or less intact, are back as the one-title Harvard Art Museums. The best thing about Harvard’s new museum headquarters is that it feels as if it really was designed, as advertised, for students of all persuasions and disciplines, and for accessibility, not just as a material fact, but as an aesthetic and ethical ideal. [link]