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Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made...
...Fogg has opened an exhibit on the second floor of Chinese jade--originally, I believe, part of the Grenville Winthrop bequest. The Chinese call jade "The Stone of Heaven," but I'm afraid the Fogg show takes too scholarly an approach--I got the feeling that, unless you're a collector, the notes on the show and the catalogue would not be of much interest. But the stone, regardless of what is done to it, is still beautiful, so go and see the show for that...
...Watch out for your roommate's girlfriend from Wellesley who took one of these courses last year and thinks she knows everything. She doesn't. For example, the naked lady in the painting after Van Eyck at the Fogg is not the Virgin Mary...
...longer the official 100th anniversary of Impressionism. In case you missed it, the new Wertheim collection on the second floor of the Fogg might make up for it. It's worth a special trip...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation cracks open the case of the Fogg Museum ancient coin robbery. "It suddenly came to me why someone would want an ancient coin," Clarence Kelley, FBI director, says. "Then it was just a matter of finding an ancient vending machine...