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...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, a Japanese woodblock print series showing corresponding domestic scenes...
...successful painter, indeed the only American and one of very few women to have ever exhibited with the Impressionists, Mary Cassatt could certainly be called a major woman artist. Yet the title of the exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, seems somewhat paradoxical. For Mary Cassatt, being modern meant choosing her own path and creating works of art often strikingly different from the Impressionist "standard." Like her male counterparts, she departed from traditional subjects, but only a few of her works portray the public scenes or working people so common among other...
CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS BANK'S new clock is doing just fine, thank you. It's the neighbors that are having problems. At night, the monolithic red sign below it now reads "GE Savings Bank." A change in ownership? More like burn out. It happens a lot around here...
...engaged in a heated game of Cricket with J.P., a version of darts that I've learned about five minutes ago. Some intoxicated tattooed townie in a Red Sox jacket explained the rules. I have to land three darts in certain numbered sectors of the board. I was doing fine until I got to 17. Now, nothing. I've tried 10 times and I can't land a single, freakin' dart...
Those still recovering from the Monet show can get their next impressionist fix at the MFA's new exhibit, "Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman." Through May 9. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave. 267-9300. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. FREE with Harvard...