Museum of Fine Arts
Lord Norman Foster has designed the expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts.
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- 465 Huntington Avenue
- Boston MA, 02115-5523
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- 617 267 9300
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- http://www.mfa.org
455 BFA References to Museum of Fine Arts
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Realist Painter Alfred Leslie at 95 Front Page
Boston Connections at the MFA and BU
By: - Jan 28th, 2023The realist painter Alfred Leslie had a major impact on the Boston Art World. In 1976 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He also commuted to teach at the Boston University School of Fine Arts.
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Cape Ann Museum Announces Major Exhibition Front Page
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
By: - Jan 19th, 2023This major exhibition is the first dedicated to Hopper’s formative development on Cape Ann, marking the centennial of the pivotal summer of 1923 when Edward Hopper and his future wife, Josephine “Jo” Nivison, visited Gloucester. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann opens on Hopper’s birthday, July 22, 2023, and runs through October 16, 2023, and is presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, the major repository of the Hoppers’ work.
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Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence Front Page
MFA Boston Opens March 26
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Thanks to the popularity of the instantly recognizable Great Wave—cited everywhere from book covers and Lego sets to anime and emoji—Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) has become one of the most famous and influential artists in the world. This major exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), takes a new approach to the work of the versatile master.
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Marjorie Minkin to Exhibit Opacity/Translucency Front Page
Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse
By: - Jan 04th, 2023The artist Marjorie Minkin divides time between Boston and the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Her Lexans have been shown in galleries and museums in MA, NYC, LA, Michigan, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany and Seoul. This is the first time a solo installation will be shown in Boston. The work will be exhibited in the Atrium gallery at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston from January 5th through March 30th, 2023.
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Arnold Trachtman: On the Town Front Page
Childs Gallery
By: - Jan 03rd, 2023The works in On the Town celebrate city life and community, illuminating a Boston area of the past through the vision of one of its more unique residents. Arnold Trachtman’s paintings tell stories and reveal an artist as deeply invested in his neighborhood as it was in him.
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Dear Suzanne By Eve Rifkah Front Page
19th Century French Artist and Model
By: - Dec 28th, 2022Her father, an artist, took the poet Eve Rifkah to the Museum of Fine Arts. There the young girl became intrigued by Suzanna Valadon the model for Renoir's stunning Bal a Bougival. She has written a book of verse comprising conversations with and about herself and the legendary artist/ model. Our paths crossed at Manship Artists Residency.
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Michaelina Wautier at the MFA Front Page
First Major Exhibition of Dutch Artist
By: - Nov 14th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the first exhibition in the Americas dedicated to the art of Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689), a painter from Brussels all but forgotten until the recent rediscovery of her work.
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Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home Front Page
At Boston Sculptors
By: - Nov 08th, 2022Ellen Schön’s New Directions Home, her second solo exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, features two discreet series of new ceramic sculpture. Inspired by diverse cultural traditions, Schön employs both ancient and contemporary technologies in her sculptural interpretations.
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Rose B. Simpson Legacies Front Page
Boston's Instutute of Contemporary Art
By: - Nov 03rd, 2022Through January 29 the Institute of Contemporary Art is displayng a gallery with 11 totemic ceramic standing figures by Rose B. Simpson. A graduate of RISD she grew up in a culture noted for its distinctive pottery created by her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, her late grandmother, Rina Swentzell and her late great-grandmother, Rose Naranjo.
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LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography Front Page
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: October 9 to January 16, 2023
By: - Oct 18th, 2022In 1936 Henry Luce bought Life Magazine and transformed it into a publication where pictures told the story. At his command to convey a narrow white supremacist fantasy of America's global dominance he employed the legendary photo journalists of his generation. Luce also published Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine and later Sports Illustrated. With a weekly circulation in the millions Life initially had a cover price of ten cents which at that time got you a cup of coffee. LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts captures its essence with an engaging but ultimately disappointing exhibition.
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The Obama Portraits at the MFA Front Page
On View Through October 30
By: - Oct 14th, 2022For the first time presidential paintings are by and of people of color. Kehinde Wiley’s depicted President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald painted Michelle. In the last of five stops the tour of portraits ends at the Museum of Fine Arts on October 30.
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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern Front Page
Blockbuster Exhibtion at Clark Art Instutute.
By: - Aug 09th, 2022Through September 18 the Clark Art Institute is presenting the blockbuster exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern. More documentary than retrospective it tells the tale of Rodin in America and his great collectors. All but one of the 50 sculptures and 25 drawings are loans from American museums and private collections. This is the must see exhibition of summer in the Berkshires.
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Vincent Castagnacci: Notes from a Quarry Front Page
Summer at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Jul 20th, 2022This summer, the Cape Ann Museum presents a special exhibition of works by contemporary artist Vincent Castagnacci. Notes from a Quarry will focus on Castagnacci’s drawings and paintings from the mid-2000s to the present, pulling in earlier works that reflect the strong influence Cape Ann has had—and continues to have—on the artist.
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MFA Opens Two Renovated Galleries Front Page
Italian Renaissance and a French Salon
By: - Jul 19th, 2022In August, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is unveiling two newly renovated galleries for Italian Renaissance art as well as a newly renovated French Salon, an opulent setting for nearly 100 highlights from the MFA's Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection of French silver.
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Legendary Boston Gallerist Portia Harcus Front Page
Showed the New Wave in Late 1960s
By: - Jul 15th, 2022Portia Gwen Harcus, 88, of Boston, passed away Thursday, July 14, 2022. Graveside services at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, MA on Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 9:45 am.
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On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America Front Page
Revisionist Installation at Peabody Essex Museum
By: - Jun 17th, 2022The Peabody Essex Museum has long collected Native American material and is now doing so intensively. In that regard it is an outlier. Contemporary Native American artists have been egregiously neglected by the mainstream American art world — we lag far behind Canada. The PEM has just reinstalled its American collection, which runs from the Colonial era to the present, and it is an ambitious, intriguing, but problematic exhibition.
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Rodin in the United States Confronting the Modern Front Page
Organized by the Clark Art Institute
By: - Jun 09th, 2022The Rodin exhibition explores changing perceptions of the sculptor’s work, beginning with the first acquisition made by an American institution—the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1893—and Rodin’s controversial debut at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition in the same year. The exhibition examines the collecting frenzy of the early twentieth century, promoted by noted philanthropist Katherine Seney Simpson, avant-garde performer Loïe Fuller, and collector Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
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Vincent Giaranno Realist and Muse at Clark Gallery Front Page
Quotidian Striving for Sublime
By: - May 19th, 2022Since Courbet the notion of realism has taken on many nuances from then to now. The current exhibition of hyper realism, pulchritide and kitsch by Vincent Gairrano at Clark Gallery is a stretch and arguably a bridge too far.
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Nicole Chesney: Albedo Front Page
On View at Gallery NAGA
By: - May 05th, 2022Gallery NAGA is pleased to present our third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Albedo (Latin, noun) meaning reflective power. Specifically, the fraction of incident radiation (such as light) that is reflected by a surface or body.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History Front Page
Review by Martin Mugar
By: - Apr 09th, 2022Through his blog Painting, the artist Martin Mugar posts think pieces about theories of fine arts. He applies in depth critical analysis to a probing review of the Charles Giuliano book Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral HIstory.
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Off Their Backs: Front Page
150 T-Shirts from the David Bieber Archives
By: - Apr 08th, 2022The entertainment and marketing industry churned out promo items and wampum to influencers. Free t-shirts with hip graphic design comprised the day-to-day wardrobe of movers and shakers. These of the moment items became the ephemera of an era. The vast, 2 million item David Bieber Archive, holds some 5,000 shirts. Now 150 prime examples have been published as a snappy picture book. Own it for an enticing stroll down memory lane.
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Philip Guston Now Launched at MFA Front Page
Controversial Klan Paintings Start Tour in Boston
By: - Apr 07th, 2022Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Tate Modern, London, Philip Guston Now is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features 73 paintings and 27 drawings from public and private collections, including both well-known and rarely seen works. Among the highlights are paintings from the 1930s that are rarely on public view; a reunion of paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a striking array of small panel paintings made from 1968 to 1972 as the artist developed his new vocabulary of hooded heads, books, bricks and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form Guston’s last major artistic statement.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene Front Page
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
By: - Apr 07th, 2022The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago), who has been based in New York for the last forty years.
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MFA Acquires Painting by Remedios Varo Front Page
Tailleur pour dames a Surrealist Masterpiece
By: - Feb 25th, 2022The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the painting Tailleur pour dames (1957), a major work by Remedios Varo (1908–1963), a leader of the Surrealist movement in the Americas. In order to purchase Varo’s masterpiece the Museum is deaccessioning three 20th-century paintings: Abiquiu Trees VII (1953) and A Sunflower from Maggie (1937), both by Georgia O’Keeffe, and On a Shaker Theme (1956) by Charles Sheeler.
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ORBS: Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA Front Page
Installation of Paintings by Jane Hudson
By: - Feb 20th, 2022ORBS by Jane Hudson, a series of 12 paintings on canvas hang on the rough brick walls of Tunnel City Coffee on the Mass MoCA campus. They bring a dynamic energy to the space. The paintings depict orbs of various hues surrounded by bursts of color as radiant beams.
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