FILM | Lions of the Kalahari

Escape to the deserts of Botswana and for a moment enter into the jungle world of the Kalahari lion. Brought to you very realistically thanks to the 180-degree dome film screen at the Museum of Science. Daily through Feb. 17. Science Park. (VMA)

VISUALS | Dependent Objects

The Busch-Reisinger Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by artists who were ambivalent toward the media. “Dependent Objects” presents the works of German artists beginning in the 1960’s including works by Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Charlotte Posenenske and Gerhard Richter. Through January 2. The Busch-Reisinger. The Fogg Museum, 32 Quincy Street. (JSG)

VISUALS | To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty

The Winthrop collection has traveled around the world and is back at the Fogg in the exhibit “To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop.” The exhibition features painting and sculpture by such artists as Blake, Degas, Gericault, Ingret, Monet, Pissaro and Renoir. Fogg Museum. (JSG)

THEATER | The Provok’d Wife

John Vanburgh’s play, currently directed by Mark Wing Davey, tells the story of Brutes, who, flanked by a squadron of drunken rakes, debauched aristocrats and lascivious French maids, turns English Restoration-era London into a battleground for love and fidelity. Tickets available through the Loeb Box Office. Tickets sell for $62-72 and $36-49 discounted. Day of show student rush tickets are $12. Through Dec. 26 at the Loeb. (NNH)

VISUALS | Huyghe and Corbusier: Harvard Project

This exhibit features a multidisciplinary project by Pierre Huyghe that explores Le Corbusier’s vision for the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. Components include a puppet opera, a temporary architectural extension, and a video work based on the puppet opera, which will run continuously in the Sert Gallery. Sponsored by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES, and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17 at the Carpenter Center Sert Gallery. (NNH)

Films

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is back and this time she’s counting carbs, not calories. There are some other surface changes in the life of the world’s favorite singleton: she’s shacked up with the dreamy Darcy (Colin Firth) and is no longer, well, single. But the script is furnished with the same jokes from the first movie, except the second time the “watch Bridget fall flat on her face in a very short skirt” routine is less vaudeville and more ritual humiliation. The movie seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. But these moments are outnumbered by the formulaic structure of the narrative, to the point where we’re not sure whether this is Notting Hill, Love Actually, or just some hideous amalgam of all the other resolutely WASPy, sickly-sweet Richard Curtis creations. (AEL)