Campus Calendar

By Catherine Elcik, Globe Correspondent  |  March 19, 2008

Monday
Big and small
"Up Close and Personal" If the word "portrait" makes you think of drab nineteenth-century commissions, the portraits in Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda's "Up Close and Personal" exhibit at Montserrat College will make you think again. Viejo's work is filled with vibrant color and patterns that turn the portrait itself into a symbol for the personality of the subject. And while many of her portraits are the kind of large canvases you might typically associate with a portrait, many of her canvases such as "Desirable Breeze" are 2 by 2 inches or smaller. And yes. We meant to say inches. The exhibit opens Monday and runs through April 9. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat noon-5 p.m. Free. Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St., Beverly. 978-921-4242 ext 3. montserrat.edu

"Darkness Darkness" "The most successful night photographs are the ones that leave the viewer with unanswered questions," says curator Lance Keimig. "The enigma and ambiguity of what is portrayed in the night photograph draws in the viewer and leaves then longing for certainty where it doesn't exist." "Darkness Darkness: An Exhibit of Contemporary American Night Photography" opens tonight at Three Columns Gallery and runs through April 30. Panel discussion with several exhibit artists tomorrow at the Griffin Museum in Winchester. Reception tonight 5:30-7:30. Free. Three Columns Gallery, Mather House, Harvard University, 10 Cowperthwaite St., Cambridge. 781-424-7018. dark nessdarkness.com. Panel discussion tomorrow 7 p.m. $7, free for students with current ID. Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Road, Winchester. 781-729-1158. griffinmuseum.org

Matchbox® for grown-ups Half the size of a compact vehicle! Smaller than the Smart car! It's the stackable, electric car of the future! Tonight, join a discussion with MIT professor William Mitchell and graduate students who designed the prototype on display at the MIT Museum. 6 p.m. Free . MIT Museum, Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. 617-253-4444. mit.edu/museum

Italian virtuosi Daniel Stepner directs principal players from the Handel and Haydn Society Period-Instrument Orchestra and soprano Dominique Labelle in performances of Corelli's "Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 3," Vivaldi's "Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon," Locatelli's "Concerto Grosso, Op. 7, No. 6," and Handel's "Cantata, 'Delirio Amoroso.' " "The chief characteristic of the [classical concerto form]," Stepner says, "is the alternation of soloists and full string orchestra playing the same material in a sort of call and response fashion." Fri 8 p.m., Sun 7 p.m. $34-$67. New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St. 617-266-3605. www.handeland hayden.org

Women and war As part of a month of workshops to complement a rotating exhibit highlighting 145 years of Red Cross photographs, Suffolk University offers a workshop on the way war brutalizes women who have the misfortune to be living in its violent path. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Suffolk University Law School, Sargent Hall, Room 265, 120 Tremont St., Boston. 617-274-5330. suffolk.edu

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