GALLERIES

The big event in art this week is WGBH's annual "Art Night", the start of their fund-raising auction. From 6 p.m. until midnight, on Sunday, June 2, channel 2 will sell off 275 works by local artists--they've been on display at the Prudential Center all week, and you can place written bids up until air time. But it's more fun to tune in and succumb to the lures of the auctioneers (like Kevin White, Sonya Hamlin and other local notables) who encourage you to "Stay at Home and Bid by Phone." The best show on TV is the proper society lady struggling to get all the bids chalked up on the blackboard as more and more and still more keep coming in.

Other interesting goings-on include "Artists Under Twenty" at the Concord Art Assoc. through June 2, a new exhibit of Tatsuzo Shimaoka Pottery from Mashiko, Japan at Art/Asia on Story St. and an exhibit by Dennis Batt at the Nasrudin Gallery on Newbury St. intriguingly entitled "Intricate Conceptions in Gouache."

But by far the best piece of museum news I've had in weeks is that Atlantic Salmon from Canada's Sanguenay river are now on exhibit at the New England Aquarium. I wish them luck trying to swim upstream. K.E. Briney

"Out of honest study comes...if we are lucky, something called art," according to Josef Albers. Something called art--including some things that are art--are on display at a rare Carpenter Center exhibition set up as a benefit for the New England Conservatory. The Carpenter Center show is made up of work by the students of Josef Albers, a man of squares who was a leader of the Bauhaus movement in Germany in the '30s and who directed the Yale design school in the '50s. One item from the exhibit is pictured on page one, and other exhibits range from watercolors to quilts to copporplate. Well worth seeing.   Anita Briney