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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...
Alpha, 121 Newbury St., has an exhibit of 19th and 20th century American photographers--Ansell Adams, Edward Steichen, Bernice Abbot, Walker Evans and other biggies. Through Feb. 23. A similar exhibit called "New Exposures" is opening at the MFA Feb. 21. Lastly, if you haven't seen them yet, run over to the Carpenter Center and take a look at the VES 40 photographs. Very enjoyable, very fine work...
...perceptions f an era or an individual, it changes color-republican white, imperial purple, Christian gold-indicating the nature of those perceptions and their changes from one century to the next. Comparing Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings and Herschel Levit's photographs of Rome, exhibited together in the MFA, is a fascinating study in perceptive, historical or otherwise When the 18th century Italian looks at these imperial Roman monuments he sees a totally different structure than the 20th century New Yorker does. One wonders which has changed more; Rome or the ways people have looked...