Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time, around 1940, there was a popular commodity called middle-brow taste, a comfortable culture of refinement. It included Impressionist reproductions, Pearl Buck novels and light-classical music. Middle-brow provided a semblance of breeding and was pervasive enough that the manufacturers of mass entertainment wanted to tap it. So radio networks featured operas and symphonies. And Walt Disney produced Fantasia, a melange of pieces from the concert-hall repertoire set to swirling, splashing cartoon images...
...museum's new director, Malcolm Rogers recently opened an outpost in Japan and fired several senior curators, among other things. Despite all this, the MFA undoubtedly remains one of the most important and steadily revered museums in the country. Departments are strong all-around, especially the Asian, Impressionist and Egyptian (touted as the best outside Cairo.) Notably weak, however, is the spare 20th century collection. Nov. 14-Feb. 6, 2000: "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen," Nov. 18-Jan. 17, 2000: "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties," Nov. 24-April. 30: "View From Above: The Photographs of Bradford Washburn...
...Founded in 1891 by Elizabeth Fogg in memory of her husband, the Fogg is the oldest museum on campus. (The original museum was located on the current site of Canaday Hall.) Most notable is the museum's eloquent collection of Ingres paintings, its post-Impressionist holdings (including a gorgeous Gaugin and a Van Gogh self-portrait), and its well-rounded representation of seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish painting (including a Rembrandt.) Other exhibitions worth noting: "The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection," (a stunning collection of masks from Western and Central Africa), "Sublimation: Art and Sensuality...
...visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well as works by Chris Ofili, Marcus Harvey and 39 others. Visitors who make it past Hirst?s ill-fated animals will never mistake this show for an Impressionist retrospective: Ofili?s work "The Holy Virgin Mary" features a religious icon strategically smeared with elephant dung. Harvey?s piece "Myra" consistently evokes protest wherever it is shown; the painting uses children?s handprints to depict infamous child murderer Myra Hindley. With headliners like these, it?s not surprising that the museum...
...museum boasts an impressive collection of impressionist paintings, including 35 works by Claude Monet. To save money, be sure to stop by Wednesdays from 4 to 9:45 p.m., when admission is free...