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...Harvard, there's disappointingly little to look at , for those who've already been through the University's permanent collections at the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger. Neither musuem has gotten any new exhibits together yet, this fall. Instead, you can look at pictures of Pusey Library in Gund Hall's "Books and Buildings" exhibit puzzle out Eudoxia Woodward's geometric flowers and name in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, or if really desperate, count the days till Hanukkah vacation on the Jewish calendars up Widener's stairs...
...Harvard hired to recover $5 million in rare coins stolen from the Fogg Museum in 1973 has reportedly been indicted along with another man by a Bristol County grand jury for assault and battery with intent to kill...
...just closed at the Carpenter Center. Gund Hall is trying to sell the Semitic Museum in an exhibit that contains three objects and lots of propaganda to show that something is going on over in the basement of the Center for International Affairs, where the Museum is buried. The Fogg's Contemporary Photographs are contemporary to the point of being already dated, and photographic to the extreme of gimmickiness. Though the Special Exhibition of American Art on the ground floor of the Fogg "illustrates in several ways the changes in American art during the course of the 19th century...
...there are some small ways to escape into a world more harmonious than Cambridge, or a time less threatening than Reading Period. Upstairs at the Fogg, Orazio Gentileschi's Madonna With the Sleeping Christ Child (a recent acquisition) shines with that inexplicable inner light of Caravaggio, Gentileschi's master. And in a small back gallery on the first floor of the museum the Heinz Gotze Exhibit of Japanese Art exemplifies the peculiarly Oriental process of passing from the seen to the unseen. The paintings and calligraphy make a pictorial poetry which Ezra Pound described as "the ideal language...
Brush and Ink: the Heinz Gotze Collection of Japances Art, at the Fogg through June 4. Gotze's aim in assembling the collection he said, was to find examples that would illuminate what is special and different about East Asian art. Indeed, this small but stellar exhibit questions some of the fundamental assumptions of the Western viewer. Condensed to haiku precision, works like "Fly Whisk" perceive a foreign value-system in a familiar reality. The real merges disconcertingly without effort into the imaginary in the writing of "Metaphor for Buddha", or in the shifting space of Kobe Ho Shinno...