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Exhibitions

Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection," through Nov. 14. Considers the vital moment in history of avantgarde painting in New York by artists Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella.

"Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest," through Nov. 11. Featuring works by artists such as William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley and John Constable.

"School of Paris," through Oct. 31. Works by the group of artists whose work epitomizes European and modernism and the avant-garde, especially as they were conceived by American audiences between the two world wars.

Sackler Museum. "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition," through Jan. 23. A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including those from Nepal and Tibet.

"From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan," through Oct. 31. Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddesses and depictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes.

"Rothko's Harvard Murals," through Nov. 21. Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University.

Schlesinger Library. "Votes for Women: An Exhibition of Suffrage Posters," through Dec. 3. Original British and American suffrage movement posters.

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Law and Order" at 7 p.m. Recipient of an Emmy for best news documentary, Frederick Wisman's second film documents police activities in the Kansas City district with the highest crime rate, exploring the modern-day role of the police in American cities, as a final resort in disintegrating urban neighborhoods. Objective in its basic approach, the film nevertheless conveys the filmmaker's concern for society.

"The Double Life of Veronique" at 10 p.m. Veronika is a classical singer living in Poland, Veronique a music teacher in Paris. Though unaware of each other's existence, they are physically identical, including a dangerous defective heart, and seem to share knowledge and experience as well. One takes advantage of the other's painfully gained wisdom, without precisely knowing how, evoking a sense of forces beyond human control.

Talk

A Vampire of Our Own. Nina Auerbach, professor of English, University of Pennsylvania. Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, room 24, 7:30 p.m. Reception at 7 p.m.

Theatre

Speed the Plow. A Pulitzer prize-winning play by author David Mamet, Speed the Plow is a scathingly funny take on the motion picture industry. The play explores the real or imagined power structure between two producers and a temporary secretary. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega. Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel. Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m. Black tie opening. 22 October Friday

Concert

Bach Society Orchestra. The orchestra will perform its first concert featuring Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Unfinished," Gorecki's Three Pieces in Olden Style and Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 2 in a minor, Op. 59. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door.

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Doctor Petiot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man who perpetrated a personal holocaust by operating a crematorium in his furnace, was one of the most enigmatic figures of occupied France. By day, he was a good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster of the night. "Juvenile Court" at 7:30 p.m. Shot in Memphis, the film records routine legal procedures and the interactions of offenders with the legal system, depicting cases that range from issues of child placement in foster homes to drug abuse to assault and armed robbery. Frederick Wiseman's camera penetrates beyond the surface of human behavior and commonplace order.

Talk

United States Policy in Africa. A brownbag lunch with member of Congress Harry Johnston, head, House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa. Coolidge Hall 2, 12:30 p.m.

Infanticide in Early Modern Japan. Laurel Cornell, associate professor, Dept. of Sociology, Indiana University. Coolidge Hall 2, 4 p.m.

Theatre

Speed the Plow. A Pulitzer prize-winning play by author David Mamet, Speed the Plow is a scathingly funny take on the motion picture industry. The play Fifteen Minutes recommends

Bach Soc

Unlike that episode of Casper the friendly ghost in which Casper helps Schubert's symphony, we won't hear a finished version. But the powerful piece is still something to behold. explores the real or imagined power structurebetween two producers and a temporary secretary.Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega.Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel.Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m.23 October Saturday

Concert

Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones. SandersTheatre, 8 p.m. $6 for students.

Films

Harvard Film Archive. "Doctor Petiot" at2, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man whoperpetrated a personal holocaust by operating acrematorium in his furnace, was one of the mostenigmatic figures of occupied Fance. By day, hewas a good doctor who treated the poor. But bynight, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snarein the guise of smuggling them to freedom andcoldly destroyed them and stole their valuables.Carpenter Center. $5 for students.

Theatre

Speed the Plow. A Pulitzer prize-winningplay by author David Mamet, Speed the Plow is ascathingly funny take on the motion pictureindustry. The play explores the real or imaginedpower structure between two producers and atemporary secretary. Loeb Experimental Theatre,7:30 p.m. Free.

Fuente Ovejuna. By Lope de Vega.Produced by Maria Gambale and Jessica Viertel.Directed by Sarah Stewart. Loeb Mainstage, 2 and 8p.m.24 October Sunday

Concert

Organ Recitals at Harvard. OrganistAnthony Jennings of University of Newcastle,Australia, will perform in concert. Busch Hall, 29Kirkland St., 3 p.m. $4 for students.

Films

Harvard-Epworth Film Series. YasujiroOzu's "An Autumn Afternoon," at 8 p.m.Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 MassAve. $3.

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Doctor Petiot" at 2, 5, 7 and 9p.m. See Saturday's listing for more information.

Talk

Interrupting Expressions of Bigotry.Joyce Foster, intercultural communicationsfacilitator and trainer. Bunting Institute, 34Concord St., 4 p.m. $3 donation suggested forrefreshments.25 October Monday

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Port of Shadows" at 5:30 p.m.The action takes place mainly in an undergroundbistro. Jean Gabin plays a deserter from theColonial Army who falls in love with a youngorphan girl.

"The Practice of Love" at 7:30 p.m. Thepractice of love and suffering in love. The storyhas several beginnings, returns at the end of thefilm to the beginning in a breathless U-turn.

"The Big Stick, New Left Note" with Saul Levinein person at 9:30 p.m. Boston filmmaker andteacher Saul Levine is a legendary fixture ofAmerican underground filmmaking. His films dealwith the extremely personal particulars such aslovers, work and just hanging out.26 October Tuesday

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Voyage to Italy" at 5:30 p.m.Tensions mount in this deeply moving story of abored British couple struggling to keep theirmarriage alive while visiting the ruins of Pompei.

"Le Jour se Leve" at 7:30 p.m. Barricaded inhis attic room, as the police wait outside, aworker who has shot a man recalls the eventsleading to the killing.

"Ivan the Terrible:" Part 1 at 9:30 p.m.

Theatre

An Evening with Wendy Wasserstein. Aperformance and talk with Wasserstein, playwrightand journalist. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St.,7 p.m. Free.27 October Wednesday

Films

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Stranger Than Paradise" at 5:30p.m. When 16-year-old Eva from Hungary invades thedomain of her New York cousin Willie and hisfriend Eddie, she is at first an irritation, butlater a source of color in their lives.

"Alexander Nevsky" at 7:30 p.m. The filmdepicts the 13th century invasion of Russia by theTeutonic Knights.

"Ivan the Terrible: Part II" at 9:30 p.m.

Talk

Multiculturalism and Buddhism inAmerica. Helen Tworkov, editor, Tricycle, TheBuddhist Review. Phillips Brooks House, ParlorRoom, 4:15 p.m