Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.
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Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants
An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
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The Eclectic Objects that Inspired Matisse’s Art
Matisse in the Studio, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the first exhibit to focus specifically on Matisse’s objects and how they influenced his art making.
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Botticelli’s Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty
The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment.
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Hokusai’s Picture Book of Everyday Life in Edo-Era Japan
The manuscript would have been destroyed if its pages had been used to create a printed book during Hokusai’s lifetime.
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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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The Art of Fallen Cities
BOSTON, MASS. — Having grown up on the Great Plains, the first ruin of the Romantic variety I remember encountering was the shell of the Rock of Cashel in Ireland.
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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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In the Museum for 100 Days, a Performance Artist Pushes Us to Reflect on Time
BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts that it’s a bit hard to know where to start.
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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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Class Disjunctions: Dutch Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Even to the trained eye, there is something unrelenting about most seventeenth-century Dutch art.
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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.
