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...Fogg Art Museum, Naumburg Room: $8 (includes free admission to the museums and free parking at the Broadway Garage on Felton Street...
Recently, however, it has become clear that significant parts of that world have been ignored. While the Fogg itself houses mostly European art, the Sackler shows Asian and Islamic art and the Busch-Reisinger shows Eastern and Northern European Art, art of Southern and Latin America is often ignored, as is the art of Africa...
...Fogg, much to the credit of its directors, has recently been seeking to right that balance by offering exhibits that focus on the art of such under-represented cultures. Last spring “Geometric Abstraction: Art of the Patricia Phelps di Cisneros Collection” put the spotlight on artists working in the Americas, and three current exhibitions at the Fogg—including “You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé,” “Marking Places: Spatial Effects of African Art?...
...answer, of course, is yes. And in the future, we hope to see their work on the walls of the Fogg as well...
Clearly, that can't be the whole story from the vast continent, and Harvard's Fogg Museum is filling in at least some of the gaps with a show of its diametric opposite: geometric abstraction, drawn from a distinguished and systematic collection made by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, who lives in Caracas, Venezuela, and is an ardent evangelist for South American abstract painters and sculptors. Cisneros has a severe and finely tuned eye, and her collection is remarkably free from nationalist bias. This is a very catholic collection. Of course, some of the artists in it, such as the Venezuelan...