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Fogg Museum. Mon.-Sat., 10-5, Sun.2-5. The University art museum, in addition to its excellent permanent collection (well stocked by generous old grads), is a stopping place for many travelling and special exhibitions. Currently on display: "Photography Unlimited"--through Oct. 16, unusual and sometimes disturbing experimental images by contemporary photographers. Also: "19th and 20th Century American Portraits in Prints, Drawing and Sculpture"--through September. Artists exhibited include Sargent, Copley and Whistler--a great chance to find out what Louis Agassiz really looked like. Todd McKie, who last year drew some snide comments for his cartoon-like watercolors...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum houses Harvard's collection of German art, both medieval and modern. On display now are some works of 20th c. German Expressionists--always worth a special trip. Open 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Mon.-Sat., with free organ concerts in the main hall Thursdays at noon...
...Mon.: The 39 Steps, 2:30, 5:20, 8:20 and Room Service...
Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour, Friday, March 1, and Sunday, March...
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) is one of the films that was most responsible for acceptance of the French New Wave among intellectuals, back when it was a new wave. Alain Resnais, who made the film, does not seem such a major artist judging from the films he has made in the last 15 years, but Hiroshima itself is still potent--especially in the few scenes about the nuclear disaster. The film begins with a French actress falling in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima, and after that the associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory...