GALLERIES

High point of this week (or maybe next week, or perhaps the week after): On the first weakened day, or Washington's birthday, with what is called "appropriate weather conditions, the institute of Contemporary Art will sponsor a Snow Sculpture Competition on the Esplanade. I'm writing this on Tuesday, snow is forecast for Wednesday, but the way this winter's been going, I have little faith in WE6-1212. So, if it ever does snow, there'll be prizes, and it's open to all ages.

Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made.

There's a joint exhibit of the Graphic work of George Bellows at the Boston Public Library and the Boston University School for the Arts Gallery. Bellows was an American Realist painter of the 1920's--he's probably most famous for his painting of the knockout at the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Anyway, his stuff is good.