Gallery of Harvard scenes puts accent on red
Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus and in nearby Harvard Square, brighter shades of red abound, too, in a Science Center mural, at bike racks and in traffic, on art museum walls, and in tourists’ garb. A passerby’s purse adds a dash of spice to Harvard Medical School marble. Blanche-Marie Blanc’s dress pops from Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1870 portrait at Harvard Art Museums. Glossy folded sheet aluminum lines a wall at the art museum, part of Charlotte Posenenske’s “Relief (Series B).” Cherry red couches — and a suspended killer whale skeleton — invite conversation in the Northwest building basement. Seven years of Housing Day T-shirts at Adams House favor red. Late-night Harvard Square favorite Pinocchio’s Pizza. Finding your bike is easy when it’s red. A street off Brattle Square is nearly all gray. Red shapes punctuate Constantino Nivola’s 1954 landscape mural “Olivetti Showroom...