MFA

Art for art's sake - and $1 billion

adamg — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:45:36 +0000

Boston 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

adamg — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:36:22 +0000

Eeka, 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

adamg — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:54:52 +0000

WBUR 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

adamg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:31:36 +0000

Greg 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

adamg — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:56:30 +0000

"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

adamg — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:51:42 +0000

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

adamg — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:43:54 +0000

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

adamg — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:46:40 +0000

Dan Kennedy gets the scoop.

An online tour of the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing

adamg — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:59:10 +0000

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

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:35:20 +0000

A 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.

Don Ed Hardy appearance and other events dress-up Fashion Month at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

dwyer — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:16:52 +0000

It’s Boston Fashion Week and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is extending the celebration throughout October with two relevant exhibits, a party on the first of the month, an appearance by Don Ed Hardy on October 6, and a robust list of fashion-related events.

Read full article by John Stephen Dwyer

Nobody puts Tut in a corner

adamg — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:34:34 +0000

Greg Cook reports King Tut is threatening to curse the MFA for daring to suggest its Tomb 10A exhibit shows off "the greatest tomb ever uncovered:"

... The 14th century B.C. Egyptian pharaoh made his statement during a press conference held on the steps of the museum's State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance overnight. "Djehutynakht's tomb is pretty great," Tutankhamun said via an interpreter. "But the greatest ever uncovered? His tomb - Tomb 10A, as the MFA so inelegantly calls it - is like a firefly compared to the sun that is my tomb.” ...

New MFA wing slowly getting shipshape

adamg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:11:07 +0000

WBUR reports on the first gallery being installed in the $500-million wing - featuring ship models.

Art survey: Twin museum expansions

adamg — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:51:29 +0000

John Stephen Dwyer considers the expansion projects at the MFA and the Gardner.

Youth Voices Film Festival at MFA

jeffcutler — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:11:28 +0000

Want to buy a child? Seriously. It will only cost you a bag of millet. Leila was sold ... traded really. For a bag of food that would feed her family.

If you're not interested in purchasing a child, what about children who work as many hours a day as they are old just to support their family.