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...world in and around Cambridge has been producing thousands of words, but few pictures worth looking at, these weeks. Anthony Caro's sculpture at the MFA, one of the bright oases in the desert of exhibits, is leaving the museum May 9; Wedding just closed at the Carpenter Center. Gund Hall is trying to sell the Semitic Museum in an exhibit that contains three objects and lots of propaganda to show that something is going on over in the basement of the Center for International Affairs, where the Museum is buried. The Fogg's Contemporary Photographs are contemporary...
Anthony Caro, at the MFA through May. Using scraps of steel--pieces of pipe, ends of sheet-metal, bits of gridding--Caro engenders his own brilliant constructions. His sculptures render natural forms in vividly painted metal: "Prairie," for example, folds and undulates; a cornfield--but in yellow steel. The patterns of "Orangerie" belie the stasis of the dusky orange metal, seeming to move like the shadows of leaves. Caro's efforts to capture the nature of water produce some of his most interesting work: "the Deluge" transfixes waves and spray, and "Cool Deck" slides and shimmers, a silvery stream. "Early...
Boggs, a specialist on 19th and 20th century European and American art, was considered for the directorship of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) until she withdrew her name last week...
Prior to the meeting with Bok, Boggs would not say whether her rejection of the MFA position indicated that she would come to Harvard. She was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...spokesman for Howard Johnson, president of the MFA, said yesterday that Boggs made no reference to the Harvard offer when she refused the directorship...