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After Student Pressure, Harvard Law School Ditches Logo Connected to Slavery
The former shield featured the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., who made his wealth through the labor of enslaved people.
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DATMA’s WATER 2021 Brings Hydro Art, Design, and Technology to the Southern Coast of Massachusetts
For its third year, Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute launches free public art exhibitions and numerous programs to reenergize a downtown community.
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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Is Lifting Its Mask Requirement
Beginning May 29, neither visitors nor staff will be required to wear a face covering at the Boston museum, in alignment with a statewide mask ordinance.
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A New Twist on Marine Painting at the Peabody Essex Museum
Artist Alexis Rockman examines the future of our planet through historic shipwrecks.
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SMFA at Tufts Offers Flexible Design and Illustration Certificates
Create a custom art certificate from a robust list of core courses and electives at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ Continuing Education Summer Session.
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Photos by Jewish Artist Who Documented Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland Gifted to MFA Boston
Ross was forcibly confined to the Lodz Ghetto and tasked to take propaganda photographs, but secretly documented the brutal living conditions to leave a historical record of atrocities committed by the Nazis.
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Hundreds of Presidential Memorabilia, From Locks of Hair to Vintage Photos, Go on Auction
The sale at Boston’s RR Auction includes ephemera of all sorts linked to presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden.
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In an Unusual Crime, Someone Threw a Stolen Painting Into the Gardner Museum
The Boston museum, the site of one of history’s most notorious unsolved art crimes, now finds itself indirectly connected to another.
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Breathing With Zarah Hussain at the Peabody Essex Museum
Works made during lockdown explore our connection to breath in a new exhibition at PEM, on view through June 20.
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An Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum Explores How Revolution Inspired a Generation of Modern Indian Artists
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and archival sources trace the rise of a vibrant modern art movement from India’s colonial period through its independence.
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MFA Boston Workers Vote to Unionize
Jon Feng, a Members and Visitors Services Representative, said the union will redistribute power to “give greater consideration to those in the most precarious positions.”
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A Survey of African American Graphic Designers Opens at Boston University Art Galleries
As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes spans from 1865 to 1999. Curator Jerome Harris will give a virtual lecture on November 10.