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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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CultureGrrl Whacks Boston’s MFA For Caille-Butt Acquisition
To all appearances, the Boston Museum of Fine Art’s eight-for-one swap to acquire Gustave Caillebotte’s “Man at His Bath” has gone over like the metric system. Exhibit A: Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh. Now wait a minute, Mr. Malcolm Rogers, … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsJournal, Boston Globe, Caille-Butt, CultureGrrl, eight-for-one, Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Man at His Bath, MFA, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Scot Lehigh, Sisley
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Dead Blogging ‘The [Round-the-] Clock’ Opening At The MFA
Saturday night at 7 o’clock, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts unveiled its new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art with a 24-hour extravaganza described this way in an MFA press release: 24-HOUR CELEBRATION SEPTEMBER 17–18 AT MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Patti Smith At The MFA (II)
Picking up where the hardworking staff left off: During her thoroughly engaging appearance at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday night, Patti Smith read loving excerpts from Just Kids, which chronicled her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late … Continue reading
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Tagged Because the Night, Grateful, Jerry Garcia, John Coltrane, Just Kids, MFA, My Blakean Year, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wing, Yoko One
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Dead Blogging Patti Smith At The MFA
Patti Smith banged out the house at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Then she brought it down. Smith delivered the annual Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artists Lecture to a packed Remis Auditorium Wednesday night, except it wasn’t so much a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea Hotel, Fondation Cartier, Just Kids, Land 250, MFA, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Ada Louise Huxtable: MFA’s American Wing Fails To Take Flight
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal devoted a full page of its Leisure & Arts section to the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. And – no surprise here – the paper’s dual reviews featured dueling ledes. … Continue reading
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