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Bulgarian Music Festival--MFA at 7:30 Gary Steigerwalt--Sander's Theatre at 8:30 Boston University Wind Ensemble--School for the Arts at 8 Music from Marlboro--Longy School at 8:30 "La Serva Padrona" and "Savitri...
...Boston Museum of Fine Art is one of the country's largest art museums and a must for any student of Impressionism. The MFA currently has several special exhibitions easily worth a quick ride down the green line. More than 100 of 19th century American artist Winslow Homer's works are on display until Sept. 4. The comprehensive show covers almost every stage of the artist's career including his early lithographs, his Civil War drawings and, of course, his seacoast watercolors. Complementing the Homer exhibition is "Watercolor in 19th Century Europe," a selection of watercolors by Homer's European...
...work of Shiko Munakata, a contemporary Japanese woodblock artist, is the subject of a third MFA exhibition. The museum is displaying several of Munakata's original woodblock prints in addition to photographs of many of his other works. "Flora and Fauna," a collection of about 35 prints and drawings, traces the development of natural history illustration from the 16th to the 19th century, and "Peter Rabbit and Other Tales--Art from the World of Peter Rabbit" is a show well-suited to our current age of nostalgia...
...Gardner Museum is located a few blocks from the MFA. This Venetian Palace houses the collection of Isabella Stuart Gardner, who apparently stipulated in her will that all the paintings in the collection must be left in the exact position she left them in; nothing can be re-arranged to make room for a special show. But the collection, which includes at least a smattering of almost every great master's work and several exquisite antiques, is magnificent. And if the pictures never change, the elaborate arrangements of flowers in the huge couryard do, and the gardens outside provide...
...than another passageway between lecture halls. Adorned with priceless objets'd'art perhaps, but still a passageway. For the approximately 2,000 visitors it entertains on a given weekend, the Fogg probably seems like nothing more than another museum. Impressive for a college collection, perhaps, but still only an MFA in miniature...