MFA Cancels All Events And Programs Through Aug. 31
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts announced last night that due to the coronavirus, it had decided “to cancel all of the Museum’s events and programs through August 31, 2020.” Read…Continue Reading →
Museum Of Fine Arts Doesn’t Expect To Reopen Before July, Mulls Layoffs
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts does not expect to be able to reopen before July due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus and is considering layoffs and other “significant…Continue Reading →
Guerrilla Artist Gives MFA’s Giant Baby Head A Coronavirus Mask
In this moment of coronivirus concern, Peter Agoos thought the giant bronze baby heads by Spanish artist Antonio López García outside Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts could use some assistance.…Continue Reading →
When Lucian Freud Turned His Relentlessly Unsparing Gaze On Himself
Lucian Freud glowers out of many of his paintings in the modest exhibition “Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits” on view at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from March 1 to May…Continue Reading →
Illustrator And Disney Artist Kay Nielsen’s Glittering Fantasies And Difficult Life
The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century, is the demon that steals the show at the end…Continue Reading →
MFA Hires Former Attorney General To Investigate Complaints That Students Faced Racist Treatment
Hoping that “an investigation by an external party could provide greater objectivity and clarity,” Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has hired former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to look into…Continue Reading →
MFA Bans 2 Visitors, Continues Bias Training After Students Complain Of Racist Treatment
Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
‘No Food, No Drink And No Watermelon’—MFA Apologizes For Racist Mistreatment Of Students
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
How Frida Kahlo’s Visionary Paintings Were Inspired By Mexican Folk Art
Kahlo’s riveting 1940 painting “Self-Portrait with Hummingbirds and Thorn Necklace” is all the reason you need to see “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from…Continue Reading →
Bauhaus: ‘The 20th Century’s Most Influential School Of Art, Architecture And Design’
“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →