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...Children's Museum. 300 Congress Street, Boston. 426-8855. Current exhibits include: the Climbing Sculpture, a two-story suspended puzzle piece climbing maze; Climbing the Wall, a rock climbing exhibit; El Mercade De Barrio, a replica of Latino neighborhood market in Boston; Teen Tokyo, an exhihbition on fashion, food, sports, music, art and school and family life for kids in Japan; Columbus: Through Native American Eyes. a reexamination of the discovery of America from both Columbus' and the Native American perspectives...
...Children's Museum. 300 Congress Street, Boston. 426-8855. Current exhibits include: the Climbing Sculpture, a Two-story suspended puzzle piece climbing maze; Climbing the Wall, a rock climbing exhibit; El Mercade De Barrio, a replica of a Latino neighborhood market in Boston; Teen Tokyo, an exhibition on fashion, food, sports, music, art and school family life for kids in Japan; Columbus: Through Native American Eyes, a reexamination of the discovery of America from both Columbus and the Native American Perspectives...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam." This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metal-work, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...
Another interesting aspect of the exhibit is the "Inventing a Contemporary Period Room" section in which the curators have put together a "typical" room of the '90's. The room is hardly typical, unless you're a millionaire art-collector, but it is still beautiful and holds a collection of unique objects. This part of the show aims to explore how "an understanding of the past...is conditioned by the time in which it was created." But, as the label points out, the room "fails to convince because it lacks the reality and diversity of actual life." This installation illustrates...
...Label Show" transcends the conventions of curating. In addition to being a showcase for some fascinating--and infrequently displayed--works of art, the exhibit raises questions, perhaps insoluble, about art, museums, and the values of our society in general...