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Fortunately the Chinese respect the copyist. Traditionally, the masters of Chinese painting practiced the craft not only before but as a part of painting. Which brings to us and brings us to at the MFA...
...only (unintentionally) piece of neo-Egyptian architecture in Boston, has mummies and much more buried in its cavernous complexity. Unless you're like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who would never go into the British Museum because she was afraid the mummies would rise from the dead and get her, the MFA is a good place to dig for exhibits. These days, the best finds are Anamorphoses (through November 29, more on that next week) and Printmaking in Germany...
...MFA: Alfred Leslie, through June 27th. Leslie's monumental works are enthusiastically heroic, sweeping. Only too super-real...
...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...