GALLERIES

A couple of years ago, some guy stretched an orange nylon curtain across a canyon in Colorado and called it art. I use this only as an example that a lot of people might recognize--there was a photo spread on the event in Life. The photo spread on the event in Life. The wind tore the curtain apart and that was called art too. This whole movement-of someone wrapping up the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in Christmas paper and a big bow, or of the Museum of Modern Art buying a hole in Connecticut for a substantial sum of money--is loosely called "conceptual art." Don't laugh--it's the most important movement in the art world today. And at the Craft Gallery at 791 Tremont St. in Boston, there's a two persons show called "Painting, Conceptual Art." The idea of juxtaposing the more conventional form of expression with conceptual art in the same show is not often acted upon. The painting is by John Murray, and the conceptual by Martha Connora-O'Connor, and should be worth investigating.

Also of interest: "Japanese Prints; The Primitive Period" at the Worcester Art Museum through March 2.

Exhibit of photographs based on a survey of 1400 women conducted by the French women's magazine Elie, at the Sherman Union of Boston University, through Feb. 21.