May 2012
Summer begins (unofficially) this month at the MFA. Join us for a special First Fridays Beach Party on May 4, inspired by the “Alex Katz Prints” exhibition. Come dressed in your beachy best! Also on May 4, tickets go on sale for Concerts in the Courtyard, our summer concert series that is always a sold-out success. Treat your mom to a special Mother’s Day brunch and concert on May 13. At the end of the month, explore the Museum with free admission, tours, and drop-in family art-making activitiesduring the Memorial Day Open House. Looking for more to do? Make a date with the MFA and fill your cultural calendar with films, music, lectures and courses, children’s activities, and more.
One of the MFA’s most beloved treasures is Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s brilliantly colored and vigorously rendered Dance at Bougival. It was a standout earlier this spring at a hugely popular exhibition at New York’s Frick Collection; we are happy to announce that our marvelous masterpiece returns May 26, accompanied by two other Renoirs from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in “Dancing with Renoir.” Renoir painted these three full-length paintings of dancing couples in the same year; seeing this trio together is a transporting experience.
Malcolm Rogers
Ann and Graham Gund Director Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
