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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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 newly-refreshed Linde Family Wing.
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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 returned.
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The Astounding Art and Artifacts Museums Didn’t Know They Had
Sometimes museums and archives don’t know the treasures they already have, collecting dust on some forlorn shelf or hidden away in a forgotten box. Through mislabeling or earlier disorganization, great works of art and history are sometimes lost for years before being “discovered” right inside the museum walls.
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In Wake of Tragedy, Boston’s Art Museums Free Today
This morning, as Boston mourned yesterday’s tragedy, its major art institutions announced free admission to the public, “a place of respite for our community” in the words of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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MFA Boston Rolls Out New iPad Catalogue of American Collection
LOS ANGELES — The iPad catalogue trend continues, this time with a gorgeous new digital catalogue released by the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Celebrating their Paintings of the Americas collection, the catalogue offers a timeline of American history through painting, with chapters like “The Colonies Go for Baroque” and a section on 19th C. painter John Singer Sargent.
