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.