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 Jan 2. The Busch-Reisinger at the Fogg Museum. (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)

THEATRE | 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 A.R.T.: seating section A tickets sell for $62-72 and B tickets sell for $36-49. Day of show student rush tickets are $12. Through Dec. 26th at the Loeb at various times. (NNH)

ART/MULTIMEDIA | 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 in part by the Harvard University Art Museums, VES and GSD. Free and open to the public through April 17th at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. (NNH)

Happening was compiled by: Vinita M. Alexander, Eric L. Fritz, Julie S. Greenberg, Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Marin J. Orlosky, and Emer Craig Myrick Vaughn.