The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Progam 1: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett introduces the museum and looks at a fragmentary sculpture of an Egyptian queen, Islamic art and a page from the Koran, Watteau, porcelain figures from the Commedia dell'Arte, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, art from New Guinea, Balthus, Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Velazquez, Egyptian art, women as artists, Marie-Denise Villers, Rosa Bonheur, and Vermeer.

Program 2: Museum of Fine Arts (60 min.) Sister Wendy continues a tour of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and looks at John Singleton Copley and his painting of Paul Revere, Sons of Liberty Bowl by Paul Revere, a Minbres bowl from New Mexico, Oriental art, Paul Gaughin, a Hindu sculpture from India, Georgia O'Keefe, Oak Hill Rooms, the Garden of Tenshin-en, El Greco, and a look at the craftsmanship of American Furniture.

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