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...color photographs by Joel Meyerowitz currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Harcus Krakow Gallery display a lyric sensibility for which the thrill of the eye on the world's luminous surfaces -- water, sky, foliage,' flesh -- lovingly captured, contains intense emotional value. The photographs were shot with a largeformat view camera whose slow exposures and sizable 8x10 inch prints produce an almost magical sharpness and delicacy of color. All the photographs in the museum, and the majority in the gallery, were taken over two summers at Cape Cod. There, after many years' experience photographing in black...
...such as Meyerowitz's is scratched by what may be an impertinent moral prickling. But one should finally trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane of water, seem poignantly vivid, simple, vestigial. They are worth seeing...
Zirka Filipczak said that as Cardinal of Krakow, Poland, Karol Wojtyla was pragmatic about "the political situation and yet sometimes he was willing to put himself on the line." She speculated that he would behave similarly in his new office...
...probably the only person in the country who wasn't surprised last week when the Sacred College of Cardinals announced the results of its latest conclave. A month earlier, Williams was possibly the only Vatican observer in the world who predicted the election of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, Poland, as the 264th Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...
...Gallery-of-the Week is Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend, 7 Newbury Street in Boston. It specializes in the blue-chip New Yorkers celebrated at the Worcester show. Carl Palazzolo's brilliant, large paintings and drawings are up through November 29. They're more exciting than anything I've seen recently...