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Found in western Australia in 1911, the iron meteorite "Mundrabilla" is one of 162 specimens recently acquired by the Harvard Museum of Natural History. © PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, Death by Hogarth closes on July 18. Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing opens August 7. Exhibits remaining on view include Sargent in the Studio (which complements other Sargent works now on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts); The P.R.B. and Pre-Raphaelite Painting; Circa 1874: Emergence of Impressionism; Investigating the Renaissance; American Art after 1950; and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay. At the Sackler, Courts and Countryside: Islamic Paintings from the Fourteenth through the Seventeenth Century closes August 22. Continuing exhibits include Empress, Goddess, State: Depictions of Women on Ancient and Byzantine Coinage; Coins of Alexander the Great; and Wall Drawing #830, by Sol LeWitt, in the lobby. At the Busch-Reisinger, Multiple Configurations: Presenting the Contemporary Portfolio closes on August 1. Call (617) 495-9400 for more information.

On June 30, the Harvard Theatre Collection opens an exhibit of original costume designs and paintings by Leon Bakst, designer for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Call 495-2445 for details.

At the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Rocks from Outer Space: Meteorites from the Collection of Q. David Bowers--"our most important acquisition of meteorites in a century," says curator Carl Francis--remains on view. Call 495-3405 for details.

Nexus, a multimedia exhibition by Jill Reynolds, continues at the Rothschild Gallery of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute until July 9. Call 495-8212 for details.

THEATER. Productions at the Loeb Experimental Theatre include Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound, from July 1 to July 10; William Finn's musical Falsettos, from July 15 to July 31; and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, staged from August 5 to August 21--all under the auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

For a humorous take on the Bard, Summer Stages offers three undergraduate actors in a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), debuting on July 23. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

FILM. July offerings at the Harvard Film Archive include a retrospective of John Ford's work, among them Young Mr. Lincoln and How Green Was My Valley, and the films of Peter Greenaway. Call 495-4700 for ticket prices and showtimes.

MUSIC. Duke Ellington, Leroy Anderson '29, and Johannes Brahms form the program for the Harvard Summer Pops Band concerts, at 4 p.m. on July 28 on the steps of Widener Library, and at 7 p.m. on July 31 at Boston's Hatch Shell on the Esplanade. Call 496-band for more details.

Sanders Theatre hosts concerts by two other summer ensembles: the Harvard Summer Chorus, on August 6, and the Harvard Summer School Orchestra, on August 13--both at 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

PROGRAMS. Among the specialized gallery walks and talks sponsored by the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) are Death by Hogarth (on July 10 at 11:30 a.m.), Multiple Configurations: Presenting the Contemporary Portfolio (on July 11 at 2 p.m.), Sargent in the Studio (on July 17 at 11:30 a.m., August 14 at 11:30 a.m., and August 29 at 2 p.m.), Courts and Countryside: Islamic Painting of the Fourteenth through the Seventeenth Century (on July 25 and August 15, both at 2 p.m.), Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing (on August 8 at 2 p.m.), and American Art after 1950 (on August 21 at 11:30 a.m.). Call 495-9400 for a complete schedule.

On July 11 from 5 to 7:30 p.m., HUAM sponsors a concert and a garden party complete with a private viewing of Sargent in the Studio. Call 495-9400 for details.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers free observatory nights on July 15 and August 19. Call 495-7461 for details, or call 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.

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