MFA
Art for art's sake - and $1 billion
By adamg - 1/20/12 - 10:45 amBoston Daily totals up all the money spent on art-museum expansion in the Boston area over a decade, and comes up with a pretty large number.
Forget the Freedom Trail; she's working on the Giant Heads Trail
By adamg - 10/30/11 - 8:36 pmEeka, who wants to be a tour guide when she grows up, is putting together a list of Boston's Giant Heads, from the Creepy Baby Heads outside the MFA to the Sphinxy Arthur Fiedler Head on the Esplanade.
Amanda Palmer gets some serious exposure to the arts
By adamg - 10/7/11 - 11:54 amWBUR posts the naked truth about the local singer and an exhibit at the MFA - and how her husband got the guards to turn off the security cameras for a bit (hey, she doesn't go by the acronym AFP for nothing).
H/t Othemts.
MFA's new contemporary-arts wing signals intent to compete in non-old stuff arena, but gaps remain
By adamg - 9/16/11 - 6:31 amGreg Cook takes a tour of the MFA's new Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which has more gallery space than the ICA, says the MFA has found made "an elegant effort" to deal with its "deserved reputation for being slim in its contemporary art offerings and holdings."
Artists briefly flush out MFA's collection
By adamg - 6/17/11 - 8:56 am
"Milk: Bathroom," by Elizabeth Alexander. Photo by Greg Cook.
The other night, a bunch of local artists snuck into a pair of restrooms at the MFA and set up an impromptu gallery - in homage to a similar stunt 40 years ago at the museum. Greg Cook reports MFA guards were not amused:
At least three gentlemen from MFA security arrived as Cook spoke to the crowd packed into the hall outside the men's and women's rooms off a stairway down from the MFA's new Shapiro Family Courtyard. They generously let him say his piece, then as artists and audience moved along, MFA staff removed from the bathroom walls all the art by the participating artists.
Onto the next gallery. Part of a set by tbobtubb.
Cook's photo used by permission. Tbobtubb's posted under this Creative Commons license and tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
Restoration hardware
By adamg - 3/11/11 - 10:51 am
Historygradguy watched a restorer at work on a recent visit to the MFA.
Copyright Historygradguy. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
An appropriate painting for the day
By adamg - 2/21/11 - 6:43 pm
Historygradguy ambled around the MFA today.
Copyright Historygradguy. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Globe stops the presses to yank Wasserman cartoon the publisher thought would offend the Museum of Fine Arts
By adamg - 11/14/10 - 7:46 pmDan Kennedy gets the scoop.
An online tour of the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing
By adamg - 11/12/10 - 1:59 pm
Greg Cook takes us on a tour of the MFA's new wing, ten years and $345 million in the making, which opens to the public on Nov. 20.
The MFA itself has its own introduction to the wing, narrated by director Malcolm Rogers.
Photo copyright Greg Cook. Posted with permission.
MFA wins court battle to keep painting owned by Jewish doctor in Vienna until the Nazis took over
By adamg - 10/14/10 - 7:35 pmA federal appeals court in Boston ruled today the heir of a Jewish art collector in Vienna has no right to a painting by an early 20th-century expressionist that wound up at the MFA because she waited too long under Massachusetts law to file a claim.
