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In the MFA’s “Impressionism and Beyond” gallery, portraits of a husband and wife hang alongside one another. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted…
During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by the invention of cars, airplanes, electric lighting…
“I be off the slave ship building pyramids and writing my own hieroglyphs.” —Kendrick Lamar, “HiiiPoWeR” While working as an advisor on the exhibition…
Issue: Art for This Moment
The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven on Their Way to America
When I was in second grade, my class spent the fall preparing for a play: a kid-friendly, historically inaccurate depiction of Christopher Columbus…
Issue: Art for This Moment
“Stories and objects share something, a patina. . . . Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed. . . . But it…
Issue: Art for This Moment
The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own…
A musical instrument is the anticipation of something. Sinuous strings and thin soundboards, carefully carved air ducts and hollow tubes, membranes…
Issue: Art for This Moment
By Deb Glasser, Patron Program Committee member When the late Wan-go H. C. Weng donated his superb collection of Chinese paintings and calligraphy to…
A Cross-Country Journey in Search of Craft: An Interview with Michelle Millar Fisher
By Patti Bifulco, Patron Program Committee member During 2022 Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary…
Patrons gathered for the “Patron Season Closer” event on June 14, 2022.