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African art finally breaks into the Fogg
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CAMBRIDGE -- A decade ago, Boston-area businessman William Teel
offered Harvard University, his alma mater, his prized collection of
African sculpture along with an endowment to fund a scholar in the
field.
Harvard declined. Teel decided to give the collection to Boston's
Museum of Fine Arts, which didn't have a strong selection of
sub-Saharan African art. Not that Teel abandoned Harvard in a huff;
nothing of the kind. Changing long-entrenched attitudes of major
universities and museums is a slow process, and he realized that. He
persisted, a model of patience. The result is that Harvard's ...
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