The Brittle Decade
Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
Selected for inclusion on the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title list from CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries The Brittle Decade examines the...
Women's Work
Embroidery in Colonial Boston
Women's Work tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies' most important port city. From decidedly domestic...
Ori Gersht
History Repeating
Al Miner and Yoav Rinon, with an interview of the artist by Ronni Baer. The first comprehensive survey of this up-and-coming Israeli-born photographer...
Jim Dine Printmaker
Leaving My Tracks
Best known for monumental images of bathrobes, tools, and hearts that became icons of Pop Art during the 1960s and 70s, Jim Dine remains one of the...
Conservation and Care of Museum Collections
The diversity of objects in an encyclopedic art museum presents myriad challenges in cleaning, restoration, presentation, and authentication. Over...
Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
The most enticing of the ancient divinities, Aphrodite also remains the most enigmatic. Worshipped and celebrated, she has been depicted in ways both...
Ellsworth Kelly
Wood Sculpture
Ellsworth Kelly describes the thirty wood sculptures he created over the span of four decades between 1958 and 1996 as his “totems.” This small body...
Degas and the Nude
While Edgar Degas is celebrated for his portraits and his dancers, his nudes are frequently overlooked. Degas and the Nude explores the artist’s...
Artful Adornments
Jewelry from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A mode of self-expression that can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, jewelry can be as culturally revealing as it is stunningly beautiful...
Lethal Elegance
The Art of Samurai Sword Fittings
As the soul of the samurai, the sword is famously both the symbol and instrument of Japanese military prowess. Less known, at least in the West, is...