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...Fogg is showing two films about Balinese life and culture in conjunction with its exhibition "Legendary Paintings of Bali." The films, "Bali Today" by Margaret Mead and "Balinese Music and Dance" produced by the Xerox Corporation and distributed through the Indonesian Consulate of New York, will be shown August 12, 14, 16 at 2 p.m. in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall. Admission is free...
...Fogg is exhibiting a group of Italian and Spanish oil paintings from the Baroque period in Gallery XII. The apintings, done in the 17th and 18th centuries on canvas and panel, were chosen for the show by John Rodger Lane, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts who is currently serving as the Fogg's acting assistant director. The show features 13 works from the Schools of Bologna and Rome, including two different interpretations of the biblical legend of Joseph and Potiphar's wife (one of the greatest stories ever told) by Roman followers of Caravaggio...
...Fogg has a couple of new shows which feature the talents of local artists. An exhibition of contemporary "drawings" by nine Boston artists is hanging in the Drawing Study and Balcony. The term drawing is being used to cover a variety of media--watercolor, acrylic and acrylic air-brush--on paper. The works, both abstract and realistic, are small and intimate in feeling and vary greatly in quality. Still, the show is an insight into some of the types of art being done today and an excellent reason to visit the Drawing Study, one of the Fogg's best-kept...
Downstairs at the Fogg, on the first floor, the Print Room is displaying photographs by Boston artist Peter Jones and contemporary lithographs, silk-screens and offset prints--including Claes Oldenburg's satirical "Art and Technology...
...Fogg has a lovely little exhibit of American watercolors tucked away in one of its back galleries that includes works by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The Fogg doesn't really do all that much special with American art, especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because...