In Brief
A Terra-cotta Antiquity that Arrived at a Turkish Museum by Mail
On August 26, the Antalya Museum in Konyaaltı, Turkey, received an unexpected package from Vienna.
MFA Boston
News
Boston’s #RenoirSucksAtPainting Protesters Say Exhibiting the Impressionist Is “Aesthetic Terrorism"
Another day, another protest at a museum. Not against labor conditions, the treatment of museum staff, or kimonos, however, but this time against Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the over-4,000 paintings the French painter executed over his lifetime, and their prominence in museums around the world.
Art
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.
Opinion
Seeing Beyond "Kimono Wednesdays”: On Asian American Protest
When I heard that the Boston MFA was launching a dress-up social media campaign called "Kimono Wednesdays" based on a painting by Claude Monet, that a group of young Asian American protesters asked them to stop, that the MFA did and apologized, I thought it was an open and shut case.
Opinion
The Confused Thinking Behind the Kimono Protests at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently cancelled an event they had called “Kimono Wednesdays,” that, according to the museum, sought to engage people by arranging enhanced encounters with works of art.
News
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.
Art
Photographers Bring Home a Picture of Fukushima
One of art’s greatest functions might be the way it helps us share our common experiences, though those experiences are sometimes all too tragic.
News
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?
Art
20th-Century Models of Speed and Wonder
Transportation is one of the few industries in which design has so consistently been the driving force. Who hasn't at some point been stopped in their tracks by the polished silhouette of a classic Corvette? The car's controlled curves evoke speed, and that speed creates the illusion of power.
In Brief
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Increasingly Reliant on Fee-Generating Loans
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is increasingly turning to lending out marquee artworks in their collection for profit, according to the Boston Globe.
Art
A Bilingual Globalism Between North and South America
BOSTON — Traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation's collection in Miami, Permission To be Global (Prácticas Globales) — the MFA's first exhibition of contemporary art from Latin America — calls attention to globalization within the institution's n
Art
What Happens When Museums Return Antiquities?
Year after year, the demands come from foreign governments, landing on the directors’ desks at some of the major museums in the United States: give us back our looted antiquities. And, after some delays and in some instances the assistance of the US State Department, these antiquities are being retu