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...Fogg Art Museum...
...examine architecture as "the public site of social critique" or "the hermetic contemplation of the ritualized object." Or, perhaps your last viewing of a conscientiously arranged collection of photographs ended when the nurse called you in to see the dentist. Either way, the Robert Lehman Gallery at the Fogg Art Museum has an exhibit that is sure to satisfy your photographic predilections...
Tucked away on the second floor of the Fogg, right around the corner nineteenth-century traveling communion set and next door to "France and the Portrait, 1799-1870" is the tiny Lehman Gallery, home to "Building Representation: Photography and Architecture, Contemporary Interactions" through April 11. Deborah Kao, Associate Curator of Photographs, and Martin Kao, lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, have skillfully assembled an exhibit of 18 large-scale works by contemporary photographers who manipulate architectural spaces through the camera lens...
...technical intricacies and striking imagery--as opposed to the artists' self-proclaimed inducement of "cultural critique and meta-commentary"--will undoubtedly inspire the viewer to linger. Tired of Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe or those ubiquitous sepia prints of rose-bearing children, you owe yourself a trip to the Fogg to see how these six contemporary photographers toy with spatial axes and optics. Afterwards, you may never look at your room in the same light again...
...Harvard Security Guards, Parking Attendants and Fogg Museum Guards Union has been without a contract since 1996, when they decided to separate from their umbrella organization, the local 254th of the Service Employees International Union...