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...never too old for splashing dolphins and shiny killer whales. So find your way down to the waterfront and bask in the glow of the neon-lit fish tanks. Currently on exhibit: "The Otter Limits." New England Aquarium, Central Wharf...
...missed at this exhibit is Cassatt's beautiful but lesser known series of drypoint and aquatint color prints from 1890-91. These prints, inspired by a similar series of woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro, depict daily domestic scenes of female life. Subdued colors and clean lines give these prints a charming simplicity. But the Museum of Fine Arts has not done the best possible job of showing the close links between Cassatt's style and the style of the original Japanese prints that inspired her. At the Art Institute of Chicago, where the Cassatt exhibit first opened...
...course, the exhibit also contains a large number of Cassatt's signature portraits of young children, often painted together with their mother or nurse. Unlike so many other portraits of children, from the Renaissance through her own time, Cassatt's children actually look like children. Unlike previous painters, she does not paint children with adult facial expressions and proportion. Perhaps best among these paintings is the well-known "The Child's Bath" of 1893, which displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly...
...fascination with the beauty of surfaces, and unsuspected symmetries prompted studies such as "Two Forks Under Water" (1993). These photographs, the earliest in the exhibit, are the least interesting. But his decision to photograph the transformations of objects would pay off later. "From physicality," Morell said, "ideas emerge," and in the next series, I was delighted to see that yes, they...
...fanatics, today is the reopening of the seasonal Boston Tea Party Museum. Go, mourn all the wasted tea leaves! Located minutes from the South Station T-stop, it features a life-size working replica of one of the ships that took part in the historic Boston Tea Party. The exhibit also includes the movie "Paul Revere Remembers," as well as continuous visitor-participation reenactments. Call 338-1773 for directions. Open daily from...