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...Harvard, there's disappointingly little to look at , for those who've already been through the University's permanent collections at the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger. Neither musuem has gotten any new exhibits together yet, this fall. Instead, you can look at pictures of Pusey Library in Gund Hall's "Books and Buildings" exhibit puzzle out Eudoxia Woodward's geometric flowers and name in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, or if really desperate, count the days till Hanukkah vacation on the Jewish calendars up Widener's stairs...
...series of action photographs made by a man named Edward Muybridge, artists and everyone else learned that a horse's legs never did that. Photography ever since has been a major influence on how people and animals are depicted as moving in art, and a new exhibit at the Musuem of Science investigates this. Called Man and Movement, it deals with the photography of movement from Muybridge's first experiments through the development of the strobe flash, and includes character studies, a slide show and photos from the Watergate hearings. Through March...
Also around: Paintings and sculpture by New England Women artists at the DeCordova Musuem in Lincoln, through March...
...current plans the musuem is located in the so-called "mandated portion," authorized by Congress in its 1948 Presidential Archives Repository Act. Also in that six-acre portion are the archives, the Institute of Politics, and Commonwealth Plaza...
...What justifies such a posture? The conviction that Rosenfeld's novel, Passage From Home, identifies taxonomies of natural phenomena which coincide with mine: Chicago, the lives of the Jewish urban intelligentsia, family sorrow; that in the journalistic, feuilleton-like reflections of literature collected in The Age of Enormity, a musuem of modern life has been opened where the meditations of a typical educated reader in our time await inspection; and that the stories. Alpha and Omega, reverberate with an awareness of that event which Benjamin defected in Leskov: "experience has fallen in value." It has become harder and harder...