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Modernism; happy pictures; a new frontier
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MODERNISM IN NEW ENGLAND
At: Beth Urdang Gallery, 11 Newbury St.,
through Nov. 8.
ALLAN CRITE'S BOSTON
At: The Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon St.,
through Nov. 29.
SURF/MOTEL: MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION BY JOE NERVOUS
At: Lionheart Gallery, 331B Newbury St.,
through Nov. 22.
New England seems an unlikely place for the hard edges of
Modernism. Certainly, the Museum of Fine Arts didn't take to it; its
collection remained steeped in Impressionists while the Cubists
pushed their way aggress...
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