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MFA Boston Publicly Conserves 18th-Century Buddhist Painting Masterpiece
Starting tomorrow, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will have a rare opportunity to experience what usually occurs behind the scenes in conservation labs.
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Caught Up in Rosalyn Drexler's Dramatic Moments
WALTHAM, Mass. — Who Does She Think She Is? is a remarkable monographic exhibition of Rosalyn Drexler’s varied work.
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Boston Artist Builds "Smallest House in the World," Rents It on Airbnb
By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?
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3D-Printed Shoes and Dresses that Move on Their Own
BOSTON — Texture, structure, and motion are the center of #techstyle, which opened last month at the Museum of Fine Arts here.
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Boston Builds an Artist-in-Residence Program, Bringing Creativity to City Hall
BOSTON — It's snowing hard outside, and it's a Saturday, but the second-floor hallway of the city's newest municipal building — its school department headquarters — is filled with artists and bureaucrats.
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Feminist Explorations of Our Online Wonderland
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The small (but densely layered, as always) collection of Ann Hirsch's work in the Bakalar Gallery at MIT's List Center is Boston's first introduction to her art.
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Guards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Protest Changes They Fear Could Endanger Collection
BOSTON — Last weekend, gallery guards of the Museum of Fine Arts were standing outside the institution’s main entrance on Huntington Avenue holding signs, passing out leaflets, and singing as part of their ongoing protest.
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Artists and Activists Trace Boston's Historic Red Line on the Streets
BOSTON — There is brick dust everywhere: on shoes, on clothes, on the street. Most of it makes it into the field chalker, which has already marked three miles of sidewalk.
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The Overlooked Asian Influence on Art of the Colonial Americas
The Asian influence on arts and crafts of the Americas goes back centuries earlier than most people think.
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MFA Boston Establishes John Singer Sargent Archive with Trove of Letters and Sketches
You might say that Boston was to John Singer Sargent what Florence was to Michelangelo.
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Boston Unveils Finalists in Competition to Retrofit City for Rising Waters
Following on the heels of New York, London, and many other urban centers, Boston is the latest city to envision how best to manage the certainty of rising water levels due to global warming.
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Boston Museum Opens Time Capsule Left by Paul Revere
Imagine you were creating a time capsule that would summarize American life today. What would you put in it: A smart phone? A kindle? Maybe a few seasons of NCIS or Orange Is the New Black?