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Local teens curate show of Dutch, Flemish artworks at MFA
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Local teens curate show of Dutch, Flemish artworks at MFA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a globally recognized institution with a reputation for bringing decisive scholarship and illuminating curation to the public. For the exhibition “Curated by Teens: Death as a Constant Companion,” that scholarship is coming from five local students who worked with the support of the MFA to fully realize an exhibition of Dutch and Flemish artworks.
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‘Witnessing Humanity’ — The largest ever exhibition of John Wilson’s work opens at MFA Boston
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‘Witnessing Humanity’ — The largest ever exhibition of John Wilson’s work opens at MFA Boston
Artist John Wilson, the sculptor behind “Eternal Presence” at the National Center for Afro-American Artists, has been a revered artistic figure in Roxbury for decades. A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts aims to showcase Wilson’s talent on a national scale.
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Mountmakers: The under-the-radar artists holding museum exhibits together
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Mountmakers: The under-the-radar artists holding museum exhibits together
In the newly renovated jewelry gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, delicate tiaras float in glass cases next to ornate brooches and avant-garde necklaces. Viewers are drawn to the shiny metals and bright colors, but underneath each piece, an intricate structure of metal, wood, paint and plexiglass keeps those precious artworks posed in a seemingly effortless manner.
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Fashion and jewelry are threaded together in ‘Dress Up’ at MFA
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Fashion and jewelry are threaded together in ‘Dress Up’ at MFA
Dressing up is steeped both in fantasy and reality. Children dress up as cops and queens and bring their fantasy selves to life with badges and tiaras. In adulthood, sartorial choices tend to be less about play and become more pragmatic.
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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at MFA ‘City Talks’ draws standing room only crowd
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Banner Art Gallery roundtable hosted at MFA ‘City Talks’ draws standing room only crowd
Last Thursday evening, 130 enthusiastic supporters of Black art gathered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s William I. Koch Gallery to attend a [Virtual] Art Gallery roundtable, themed “The City Talks: Black Art in Colonial Spaces.”
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Bethann Hardison brings fashion forward
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Bethann Hardison brings fashion forward
Boston is known for many things, but fashion is not one of them. That’s why Bethann Hardison’s presence at the Museum of Fine Arts on May 4 was a sartorial delight.
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Power in pottery: Enslaved artists celebrated in MFA exhibit
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Power in pottery: Enslaved artists celebrated in MFA exhibit
Through July 9, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston examines the work of enslaved ceramicists creating both utilitarian and artistic objects in the American South.
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A bitter legacy: Author Bryan Stevenson on the lasting effects of racism in America
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A bitter legacy: Author Bryan Stevenson on the lasting effects of racism in America
Attorney Bryan Stevenson, who chronicled his defense of the unjustly convicted and condemned in his 2014 bestselling memoir “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” gave a sold-out lecture on March 2 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Frank Bowling exhibit probes painter's political, artistic evolution
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Frank Bowling exhibit probes painter's political, artistic evolution
“Frank Bowling’s Americas,” on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston through April 9, 2023, highlights a specific and prolific period of the dynamic British artist’s career.
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New union ratifies contract with MFA
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New union ratifies contract with MFA
On June 28 the employees of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston ratified what will be their first union contract with the museum. By establishing collective bargaining rights, the MFA staff is helping to bring about necessary systemic change for museum workers in general.
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Artistic roots explored in MFA’s Art of the Americas reinstallation
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Artistic roots explored in MFA’s Art of the Americas reinstallation
Diverse stories are at the heart of the third floor reinstallation of the Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts. The reinstallation, titled “Stories Artists Tell: Art of the Americas, the 20th Century” acts as an artistic anthology, telling a different story in each gallery from Native perspectives of the Southwest to images of the midcentury jazz age.
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A stitch in time
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A stitch in time
On view through Jan. 17, 2022 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories,” follows this journey with 50 quilts spanning 300 years. All but a few are from the museum’s quilt collection, one of the largest in the world.
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