Tag Archives: MFA

Dead Blogging ‘Over Here’ at Boston Athenaeum

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Over Here: World War I Posters From Around The World and say, it was swell. The Boston Athenæum holds an extraordinary, but little known, collection of World War I posters. Consisting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Athenaeum, Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, MFA, Over Here: World War I Posters From Around The World, Over There! Posters from World War I, World War I | Leave a comment

Welcome to Boston’s Museum of Fine Apps

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

During his two-decade tenure as director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Malcolm Rogers has consistently strained to stretch the locals’ definition of art, from the photographs of Herb Ritts to the motorcars of Ralph Lauren. Now, as Rogers prepares to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Baby Heads, Boston Globe, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Conversation Piece, Geoff Edgers, Herb Ritts, iPhone app, Malcolm Rogers, Marina Abramovic, MFA, Miley Cyrus, Miranda July, Museum of Modern Art, Ralph Lauren cars, Somebody, The Artist Is Present, The Harvard Crimson | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Over There!’ at the MFA

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to the Museum of Fine Arts the other day to catch a gallery talk about Over There! Posters from World War I and, say, it was swell. Curator Patrick Murphy took us on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Athenaeum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, I Want You for the U.S. Army, James Montgomery Flagg, John T. Spaulding, MFA, Over Here: World War I Posters, Over There! Posters from World War I, Patrick Murphy | 4 Comments

Strip for Boston’s MFA!

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Boston’s premier comic strip artist Darby Conley contributed this to Sunday’s Boston Globe. So we sent a note to the MFA: Dear MFAniks, You were featured in a Get Fuzzy comic strip in the 2/2/14 Boston Sunday Globe, as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Sunday Globe, Bucky Katt, Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, Grand Theft Giotto, Hall of Name, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Satchel | 4 Comments

A Major Acquisition That Will ‘Altar’ MFA

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

A controversial but historically important artwork has been cleared by a British court to come to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. From The Art Newspaper: Anglican court says Benjamin West altarpiece can go to Boston City of London church to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Benjamin West, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Christopher Wren, Church of England, City of London, Devout Men Taking Away the Body of St Stephen, Great Fire of London, MFA, St Stephen Walbrook, The Art Newspaper | Leave a comment

While We Were Out (The Art Seen In New York)

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | Leave a comment

The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cubist painteings, Leonard Lauder, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, postcard collection, the Big Town, The Hub, The Met | 5 Comments

Dead Blogging Leonard Lauder At Boston’s MFA

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1923, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Carpathia, Ku Klux Klan, Leonard A. Lauder, MFA, Milo Maine, postcard collection, The Postcard Age, Titanic, World War I | 1 Comment

The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Haul

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged African-American artworks, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MFA, Norma Nathan, Swann Galleries | 1 Comment

Own A Piece Of Boston’s MFA

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged African-American artworks, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Elizabeth Catlett, I am the Black Woman, MFA, New York Times, Swann Galleries, Weekend Edition | 1 Comment