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...more than stare at his exotic subjects. He appropriated their spirit. He went along collecting strange artifacts-he once photographed himself in Algerian costume. The entrance to the exhibit showcases a series of self-portraits in which a fully clothed Day is shown on a dark field, with a faint nude black man in the background. Day seems to be audaciously claiming the "foreign" spirit...
...exhibit works hard to capture Day's eccentricities. Several large glass cases contain an exquisite series of fine books produced by the firm Copeland and Day, a publishing venture specializing in decadent fin-de-sicle literature that preceded Day's career in photography. Each photograph is matted in the Arts and Crafts style that Day preferred, often using blues and browns as well as off-white. Some mats even include a thin orange square to contrast with the colorless images...
Standing in front of the double doors at the entrance to the main exhibition gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, I knew that I had not arrived at a typical art show. The rock guitarist spray-painted across the doors seemed to be a clue that the show would be a change of pace from the museum's usual fine arts fare, and indeed Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar is a big change for Boston's famous art museum. The show is attractive and will draw a large audience, but has a difficult time staying within its definition...
...wildlife of Arizona. "We don't call it a kids' gallery," says Gina Laczko, educational-services manager, "but the hands-on gallery." If your kids are older, Laczko suggests a guided tour of the Native Peoples of the Southwest Gallery. Through February, you can get physical with a sculpture exhibit that's 100% touchable. www.heard.org...
...other hand, we should be glad they're reading at all. The RED team's inventions were a huge hit with the thousands of kids who packed the San Jose, Calif., Tech Museum of Innovation from March to October this year; so much so that the exhibit will tour the country in 2001. "Kids are very accepting of these new forms of reading," says RED researcher Maribeth Back. "We've made the book more responsive, in the same way other electronic appliances they know are. The book form we know starts to look less and less sacred...