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...Fogg Art Museum: The Fogg just opened a Jacques Villon retrospective his week), which one could almost subtitle "The Adventures of Marcel Duchamp's Smarter Brother." Whatever their relative merits, Villon was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. He was not a revolutionary like his brother, but continued to refine his chosen visual style--Cubism--throughout a long career. His color sense and sophistication produced work that Issboth elegang and exciting. See the show for a study break, if nothing else. Boston City Hall, Government Center, Boston: An Arab celebration of costumes, artifacts, photographs, mosque designs, Islamic prints...
...more than pleased to read that Kathy Garrett gave top marks to the catalogue of the exhibition "Metamorphoses in 19th Century Sculpture," now at the Fogg. She called it excellent...
...erred, however, when she stated that Janet Cox edited it. As the double spread title page of the catalogue states, it was edited by Jeanne L. Wasserman, Honorary Curator of 19th and 20th Century Sculpture at the Fogg...
With Kathy Garrett I deplore that astronomical production costs have forced the Museum to set the price of the catalogue at $35. I also deplore what production costs have done to the price of bread and milk. But unlike bakers and milk distributors the Fogg has done something about outrageous prices--at least temporarily. Since the exhibition opened, "metamorphoses" catalogues have been available to students and all visitors at $15. This is stated on a large sign at the museum's sales desk. I am sorry that Kathy Garrett missed the sign and failed to inform your readers that catalogues...
However, these copies have probably reached more people than the unique works ever did. The Ben Franklin in the Fogg show has been a model for coins and postage stamps, and plastic statues of Rodin's "The Kiss" have been sold in mail-order catalogues. The purpose these sculptures serve in disseminating a knowledge of art over a large area makes up for any lack of artistic merit...