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Sunday, October 5, 2008

ONGOING/OPEN

"Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance From the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown."

Through Dec. 21. Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

You've lived the bubble and watched your assets tank, now see the show: No institution explores the intersection of architecture, public policy and philosophy quite so thoroughly as MIT, which looks at past lending practices, current anxieties and a large "sculptural head of Frederick Babcock, early 20th c. real estate theorist."

"Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970"

Through Jan. 11. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Cold War wasn't just missiles, nukes and hot spots in Asia, it was also a war of ideas and attitudes right down to the look of your toaster -- which this exhibition explores on both sides of the Iron Curtain through art, design, architecture and film.

"Echoes in the Ice"

Through Jan. 18. Houston Museum of Natural Science

Mixed-media collages of polar explorations spanning four centuries and covering explorers Martin Frobisher, Capt. James Cook, Roald Amundsen and Adm. Richard Byrd.

"House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors From the Thaw Collection"

Through Jan. 25. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

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