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...James Ingo Freed: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. It's hard to imagine a more difficult architectural commission: design a museum devoted to the Holocaust that is also a fitting memorial to its victims -- and make it beautiful and decorous, and put it on the Mall in Washington, which has heretofore been reserved for stone commemorations of American goodness (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln) and American tragedy (Vietnam). And it's hard to imagine a more successful job of it than that managed by architect Freed, a partner of I.M. Pei's. With its exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum, Freed's museum...
...Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Museum Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Gehry, 64, seems to become fresher and more creative as he ages. This year's masterwork is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The smallish museum concentrates on 20th century American art, and the exterior can be seen as a tough, gleefully manic (that is, American) work of Cubist sculpture or as a giant brushed-stainless-steel popcorn kernel, or as a wizard's castle in some 23rd century fairy tale. Inside, where huge skylights bathe the galleries in sunlight, the feeling is serene...
...doesn't solve problems any more than (pace Janet Reno) it creates them. What art does, or did this year, is review those thorny issues in the past tense. So much of 1993's art amounted to a gigantic act of pained remembrance. Experience the Holocaust, in a museum or a movie. Look clearly at Jack Kennedy, or recycle Teddy into pulp. Watch the Great Depression in four weekly installments. Today those who forget the past are condemned to relive it -- on the big screen or small. It is also salutary to recall 1993's failings: Mitch Williams...
...door, $10. (DFH)Ongoing EventsDegas at Harvard. Through Nov. 27. Uniting more than 70 of Degas’ paintings, sculptures, and drawings, the exhibit explores the reception of French Impressionism in 20th century America, while presenting some of Degas masterpieces in a new and innovative light. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK)The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Perspectives, Composition and Performance. Through Dec. 23. This joint exhibition features original sheet music from the pillars of classical music, as well as an original watercolor painting by Mozart of…an ear. Houghton and Loeb Music Libraries...
...Sheldon fell into disgrace, colleges phased out the practice in the 1960s and ’70s. Most photos have since been destroyed for privacy reasons, much to the relief of alumni including FDR, Meryl Streep, and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Now, the remaining posture pictures reside in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Playboy apparently wasn’t interested...