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We won't send you to New York City, but three remarkable regional exhibitions are worth a car or train trip.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln. 781-259-8355. (Get directions).
If you enjoy photographs of Europe, and the contrasts among different artists sizing up a scene, don't miss the group show at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, up through Nov. 28.
All the photographs are from the DeCordova's growing collection - over 700 photographs thus far - and all are by American photographers. You'll see the big broad striped back of "Circus Man, Nice" (1937) by Lisette Model; a wintry stairway to a Yorkshire abbey (1990) by George Tice; and restless, evocative images of Prague (1980) by Paul Ickovic.
The DeCordova Museum School is one of the most comprehensive, non-degree granting, visual arts programs in the country with offerings for adults, teens, and children. An introduction to the DeCordova community can be seen, appropriately, in the exhibit "Faces@DeCordova: Photographs by Marc Teatum" at the museum school gallery. Teatum teaches basic photography. In December, the museum opens a Photography Study Space on the second floor of its new wing. This peaceful setting is for scholars and others to learn more about photography by examining actual works.
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, 106 Central St. (Route 16), Wellesley. 781-283-2051.
One of the most arresting shows in the area is at Wellesley College's Davis Museum. "Village Works: Photographs by Women in China's Yunnan Province" is an astonishing, colorful, vivid picture of the way people live on China's southwestern frontier, which borders Tibet. The 75 photographs were chosen from 25,000 pictures taken by Chinese women ages 18 to 57.
Many are unforgettable: a woman in a red vest planting rice seedlings in a flooded paddy; a 3-year-old boy with a manly expression feeding rice to his year-old brother; a woman hoeing corn plants wither her baby on a white blanket and an open red umbrella nearby.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College St., Providence. 401-454-6500. (Get directions).
Harry Callahan, who died recently, set up the photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1961, starting with a few dozen students. Within three years it was a full department with 100 undergraduate and graduate majors. Meanwhile he kept taking pictures. Both New York's Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art have held major Callahan retrospectives. RISD features a selection of the photographer-teacher's work through Dec. 5.
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