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While We Were Out (The Art Seen In New York)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last week and here’s some of what we saw. For starters, a couple of galleries in Chelsea. (Sign o’ the Times: A billboard for a storage facility that said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Against the Grain, Ai Weiwei, Chelsea, Chim, Claes Oldenburg, DC Moore Gallery, Duane Michals, Edwardian Opulence, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gagosian Gallery, German Expressionism 1900-1930, Giovani Boldini, Helen Frankenthaler, ICP, International Center of Photography, James McNeill Whistler, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Laura Roth, Leonard Lauder, Met, MFA, MOMA, Museum of Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie, Painted on 21st Street, Roman Vishniac, Ron Lauder, Société Anonyme, The Painted Photograph, The Street and the Store, Wear it or Not, Yale Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art
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The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos
An object lesson in the difference between The Hub and The Big Town: Last month the hardtrundling staff noted art-lover Leonard Lauder’s lecture about the wonderful collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Yesterday the … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Leonard Lauder At Boston’s MFA
Last night Leonard Lauder – cosmetic executive, philanthropist, collector – came to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to to lecture about the collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to the MFA. And it was very fine. Lauder, a … Continue reading
The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Haul
As the hardworking staff has reported (EXCLUSIVE!) on several occasions, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has sold off almost 150 African-American artworks for reasons that are, well, sort of vague. From a previous post: [A]n MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us … Continue reading
Own A Piece Of Boston’s MFA
This coming Thursday Swann Galleries in New York is auctioning off a bundle of African-American artworks currently owned by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as the hardworking staff has previously noted. Back then an MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us that … Continue reading
Update: The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Sale
The hardworking staff got its chronology bollixed up in this post about the MFA, much to our chagrin and partly because of this misleading format on ArtDaily.org: It turns out that story is really from several years ago (although … Continue reading
Boston’s MFA Acquires Three New African-American Artworks, Sells More Than A Dozen Others
The MFA buyeth, and the the MFA selleth away. From ArtDaily.org: MFA Boston Acquires Three Paintings By 20th Century African-American Artists BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently acquired three paintings by leading African-American artists of the … Continue reading
Boston’s MFA: Museum Of Fine(anced) Arts
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has some new blockbuster mojo with its Mario Testino: In Your Face exhibit, a natural heir to its Herb Ritts and Ralph Lauren hoedowns. But something else is a natural heir: The MFA’s increasing reliance … Continue reading
Malcolm Rogers An MFA (Museum Faux Administrator)?
Judith Zobrzynski, the Real Clear Arts blogger at ArtsJournal, has some real clear artistic differences with Boston Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers. To wit: The MFA’s Misguided New European Art Gallery Not every new gallery or exhibition is … Continue reading
Did The WSJ Scoop Boston Media On A Major MFA Acquisition?
From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: A New Bostonian, Size XL, Age 1,900 A Roman goddess is making Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts her new home on Tuesday. But it won’t be easy. A flatbed truck will pull up with … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Brandegee Juno, Juno, MFA, NECN, Wall Street Journal, WBUR, WGBH Greater Boston
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