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Making an Impact: Cokie and Lee Perry Discover an Easy Way to Give
MFA Honorary Trustee and volunteer Cokie Perry, and her husband, Lee, learned that they could give a life insurance policy that they no longer needed to charity and receive a tax deduction. Selecting the MFA was an obvious choice.
The MFA’s impressive collection of musical instruments started with a single collector: English clergyman Francis William Galpin (1858–1945). Despite…
“Turner’s Modern World” Brings a Visionary to Boston
By Judith Ritchie, Patron Program Committee member A major exhibition of British artist J. M. W. Turner’s work, organized by Tate Britain in…
Conserving an Ancient Sculpture: A Story of Collaboration
By Mary Margaret Graham, Patron Program Committee member As we enjoy the newly transformed galleries for art of ancient Greece, Rome, and the…
In this issue, get a Patron ’ s take on the visionary art of J. M. W. Turner, featured in the upcoming exhibition “ Turner ’ s Modern World ” ; meet…
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
History is slippery. We like to think of the past as being made up of a knowable series of events that time and study have neatly sorted and sifted by…
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
I get an immediate sense of comfort from the ceramic decorations of Sara Galner. As a member of the Saturday Evening Girls, an early 20th-century…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Dutch Specialties
Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (about 1435–40) is arguably the greatest early Netherlandish painting in North America. Placed…