Though Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery have long been renowned, until recently the average U.S. campus art collection was apt to consist of a hodgepodge of works donated by alumni with more generosity than taste, housed in a dusty wing of the fine-arts building. Today college museums across the country aspire both to finer art and glossier quarters. In April, the University of Michigan reopened a renovated $750,000 museum, and Brown will soon break ground for a new $2,000,000 art building. Other schools that, since 1958, have opened...
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