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Dead Blogging the New Cy Twombly Exhibit at MFABoston
Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fens yesterday to catch Making Past Present: Cy Twombly (through May 7) at the Museum of Fine Arts and say, it was swell except for the parts that were head-scratching. More on … Continue reading
MFABoston’s Fling With NFTs: Not Fiscally Tangible, Maybe?
The other day the hardworking staff received this email from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Not to get technical about it, but we don’t have a digital collection of NFTs, mostly because they’re the pet rocks of the art world. … Continue reading
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Dead Blogging ‘Regarding America’ at the Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to wander around Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art and say, it was swell. The major exhibit there right now is Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection (through July … Continue reading
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Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the Divine, Boston Globe, Braque Picasso (1978), Georgia O'Keefe, James Monroe Whitfield, Murray Whyte, Past Is Prologue: History in Contemporary Art, Phillips Academy, Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection, Sarah G. Austin, Sarah G. Austin Foundation, Walt Whitman
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How ‘King Tut’ Exhibits Have Evolved Over the Past Fifty Years
About a week and a half ago, the Boston Sunday Globe featured this full-page ad in the Arts section. The BeyondKingTut website touts the Boston opening this way. WORLD PREMIERE Opens on July 8th at SoWa Power Station in Boston … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Real Photo Postcards’ at Boston’s MFA
Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fenway the other day to catch the big Turner’s Modern World exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts and say, it was meh. (Then again, you can judge for yourself with … Continue reading
Boston City Hall: ‘A Building People Love to Hate But Shouldn’t’
The other day the hardworking staff stumbled upon this Architectural Digest post headlined “10 Buildings People Love to Hate but Shouldn’t: Reconsidering Brutalism, architecture’s most argued-over style.” Immediately we thought, Boston City Hall has got to be one of them. … Continue reading
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