MFA

Project Bread's 2008 Holiday Cards are Now Available

Project Bread — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:05:34 -0500

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

Project Bread, The Walk for Hunger is offering a wide variety of holiday cards for the 2008 season with unique images and heart-warming messages that will appeal to all. “Through the sale of holiday cards we help hungry families in need during the winter months,” said Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread. “It’s a program that does a lot of good.”

Project Bread's 2008 Holiday Cards are Now Available

Project Bread — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:57:02 -0500

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

Project Bread's 2008 Holiday Cards are Now Available

Project Bread — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:47:55 -0500

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

Project Bread's 2008 Holiday Cards are Now Available

Project Bread — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:25:32 -0500

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

Project Bread, The Walk for Hunger is offering a wide variety of holiday cards for the 2008 season with unique images and heart-warming messages that will appeal to all. “Through the sale of holiday cards we help hungry families in need during the winter months,” said Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread. “It’s a program that does a lot of good.”

Project Bread's 2008 Holiday Cards are Now Available

Project Bread — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:58:03 -0500

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

If the MFA is serious about reaching out to minority residents

adamg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:42:39 -0400

It needs to do more than just invite people to the museum itself, Third Decade writes:

... They have a great series of programs for kids, but where is the programming that engages young professionals or adults of color? Where's their support for any of the Boston Open Studios? If they want to engage people of color who are interested in the arts, why not support or have some connection to Roxbury, Dorchester, or JP Open Studios at least? Additionally, they missed a golden opportunity during Roxbury Film Festival. Hundreds of people of color, including myself, came to the museum to view some of the films being screened there. Not once was I asked to become a member nor did anyone suggest that I explore some of the collections or even the bookstore. Was the marketing department asleep for the entire year prior to the film festival? ...

El Greco to Velazquez

adamg — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:43:36 -0400

Anali took in the MFA exhibit last week:

... There is a holiness to the exhibit. I felt like I was in church at certain points and found myself saying little prayers and feeling spiritually overwhelmed. ...

Not everybody a big fan of the big baby heads outside the MFA

adamg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:54:42 -0400

Dave Daniels writes:

If you've got an evil and sadistic brother like mine, it brings back memories of my little sister's doll's heads being removed from their bodies. And her youthful screams of horror. And a local dog running by with one of the heads in his mouth as he made for the forest with said severed heads. ...

Re-opening the long shut Fenway entrance to the MFA

adamg — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:20:45 -0400

Joel Brown reports on the museum's re-opened Fenway entrance and new visitor center, which reporters, employees and big donors got a tour of today - and which everybody can see for free on Sunday:

... My favorite part of the Fenway project is "Day and Night," a two-part sculpture by Antonio Lopez Garcia, which has been outside the Huntington doors for a few months and flanks the re-opened Fenway entrance. Even [museum honcho] Rogers refers to the sculpture as "the giant baby heads," which sounds hilarious when he says it in that plummy accent of his. The sculpture adds an odd, arty, irreverent tone to the scene, which helps set off the forbidding monumentality of that face of the museum, with its 22 Ionic columns, each 36 feet tall. The baby heads are only 8 feet tall, and weigh about a ton and a half each, but they make a dramatically wacky statement in their present position. Kudos to Gail and Ernest von Metzsch for the gift. ...

MFA: Renovation work more important than keeping sidewalks open to people in wheelchairs

adamg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:28:31 -0400

Geoff Edgers repors on a dispute between people in wheelchairs and the museum. The museum says that, effective this week, it will, upon request, send a contractor out to help somebody in a wheelchair get through the construction zone.