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...given in a foreign language, French, Aaron Copland was the Norton lecturer in 1951-52 with "Music and Imagination." And in 1956-57 the painter Ben Shahn not only gave "exceptional lectures" on "The Shapes of Content" but he set up a studio in the basement of the Fogg museum, where he allowed students to watch him at work. Sometimes he helped them with their own. Four years before Shahn, e.e. cummings came to Harvard to present what have to be the most bizarre Norton lectures ever given: "i, six nonlectures." As with cumming's poetry, they're impossible...
Around the Bend in 80 Days is only good. It is a six-part slight exaggeration about Perelman's 1971 trip along the route taken by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. (Fifteen years ago, Perelman wrote the film script for the Mike Todd spectacular.) Perelman's traveling companion was not Passepartout but a 6-ft. 1-in. "toothsome cupcake" named Sally-Lou Claypool. Aboard H.M.S. Choleria, 19th century British sang-froid bunks amiably with the 20th century cynicism of a hornswoggled American tourist...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum finally, last weekend, after months of preparation and excited anticipation on behalf of everyone who'd seen their notices pasted up all over the Fogg, opened an exhibit of Eucharistic Vessels of the Middle Ages. If you're a middle ages freak, the show is fantastic. The vessels--chalices, monstrances, patens--are made of silver, copper gilt, Ivory and enamel, and are sumptuous and beautiful. The purpose of the show is to explain the relation of these objects to theology and liturgy in the middle ages. If you're at all interested in that, it's great...
...FOGG BILLS Walter Rosenblum as a "documentary photographer," and on the surface, this appears to be correct. "Documentary Photography" is a pretty well- characterized genre and the photographs in Rosenblum's retrospective run the gamut of the themes that documentarians have traditionally found to be significant--poor peasants in Haiti, Spain and Mexico, slums in New York City, war, exuberant life in European parks...
...look at it with unbiased eyes in order to find out whether in fact he has accomplished the "synthesis of the 'documentary' and the 'aesthetic"' for which Paul Strand lauds him in his introduction to the show. This sort of respect for Rosenblum's work is what prompted Fogg photography curator Davis Pratt to hold the show. Yet regardless of whether Rosenblum's work will eventually seem to be innovation or aberration in the tradition of photography, the pictures are worth seeing...