Passim's, besides serving coffee and good music, is showing "I Ching" watercolors by Martha Jane Mount. Mount works with a very wet brush loaded with strong colors, which she allows to spread and pool in seemingly random patterns. The lush atmospheric effects and abstract patterns Mount creates, many suggestive of land or seascapes, really need a larger format than she gives them in these small paintings. Perhaps the best watercolors are the few in which she uses a dryer brush and allows the color and texture of her paper to play a more forceful role in the designs.

The Fogg has dusted off some of its Islamic treasures and mounted a small but sumptuous display of Persian, Turkish, and Armenian objects from the 12th to the 18th century. Ceramics, paintings, ceremonial armor and calligraphy have all been crowded into a small gallery on the second floor. The exhibition has no special theme--it's just a chance for the Fogg to show off some exotic and beautiful art

The Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and most are expensive but a few show a control of color and technique that let them transcend the banality of their subject matter.