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...food at the MFA snackbar is awful and overpriced...
...time at all this coming week to go looking at pieces of cloth with colored oil splotched on them? Why don't you give up while you're ahead and go back to your Plato. I may be spending a lot of time in the Egyptology library at the MFA because all the books for my paper on Ashurbanipal are mysteriously missing from Widener, but I would hope the rest of you have better things to do with your time...
...MFA is open Tuesday and Thursday nights and is free from 10-1 on Sundays...
...Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, 7, Newbury St., along with the photo-realist paintings of Joel Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit is a large room full of the most static, lifeless, trite paintings I have ever seen. Lots of exciting things are happening at the MFA these days, but the Contemporary Gallery doesn't house them. Through March...
...GOYA'S CAPRICHOS expressed the vacuity of life without reason, his Desastres de la Guerra brought out the impossibility of life without reason. The most piercing and disturbing part of the MFA's exhibition is the room devoted to the Desastres. Built on Goya's own experience during the six-year war between Spain and Napoleon's France, the Desastres show the carnage, the stench--the actuality of war. Goya shows no heroes and no villains. No supernatural forces are at work here--the agony and suffering are inflicted by people onto other people, and no one is spared...