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Museum of Fine Arts Gets Shoutout From Turkish Government
From our Late to the Regifting Party desk The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey ran this ad in Friday’s New York Times. Talk Turkey grafs: Nice! Happy ending! Except . . . … Continue reading
Boston Globe Is Assignment Desk for NYT (Instead of Vice-Versa)
Normally, the Boston Globe is a lively index to the New York Times, given all the wire-service pieces the stately local broadsheet picks up from the Times. But Saturday’s Gray Lady featured a total Globe caboose by Jess Bidgood. Efforts to … Continue reading
Strip for Boston’s MFA!
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
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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