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Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A few years ago the MFA shuffled its French impressionist paintings from permanent display to the special exhibition rooms, presenting the rerun of these favorites as a new show. These all too familiar paintings were a disappointing sight to those who had paid the extra admission price. The only consolation was a room full of rarely shown American impressionist oils and watercolors whose novelty if nothing else made for you yearn more. This desire was likely to be unfulfilled--museums usually give space to European art rather than the more derivative American...
Finally the MFA has an incentive to unearth its strong American art collection. The Bicentennial has flushed American art out of storage and embellished it with historical dioramas, slidetapes and music in two shows, "Paul Revere's Boston" and "Valiant Upstarts." All the summer offerings are in American art. This includes folk art paintings which look like their creation were pshchics, magicians, or the forerunners of mad scientists, artists who delighted in optical distortions. One gripping painting in warped perspective is of a girl whose eyes are painted in super sharp focus. The focus blurs out inconspicuously in everwidening circles...
...outdone, the Museum of Fine Arts, when it isn't looking for missing paintings, is opening tomorrow a show on Paul Revere's Boston. The MFA has one of the finest collections of early American furniture and silver in the world, so the show should be pretty special. My sources in the Museum tell me that the MFA is pushing the Bicentennial big this year, because in 1976 most of their early American collection is going to be on loan to other museums for their bicentennial shows...
...from a snide comment that it's high time the Eastern Seaboard realized that heritage does exist West of the Rockies, but I can't comment on "Frontier America: The Far West" because I haven't gotten over to see it yet. The exhibit is the first of the MFA's bicentennial program, and includes household objects, drawings, paintings and photographs...
...hearing things. That early Christian fresco chapel at the MFA has a choir recording hidden in in a closet somewhere that starts and stops playing on a schedule only it understands...