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Peri Onipede deepens her connection with the MFA by working with the Planned Giving Office to include the Museum in her plans.
Learn how two local donors deepened their commitment to the MFA by including the Museum in their estate plans, and find out how to make tax…
The first time I met Sonya Clark she helped me move a 300-pound cast-bronze bench down a steep flight of stairs. Well, maybe there’s more to the story…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Bold. Vibrant. Fun. Energizing. That’s how my life looked before the pandemic. I relished hugging friends as a greeting and goodbye. I liked getting…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Approaching a marble figure in the cool, quiet halls of the MFA’s ancient Greek and Roman galleries is an uncanny, potentially dizzying experience…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, August 2021
The conservation studio in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) reopened to the public in early February, welcoming visitors once again…
In late 2020, conservators began examination and research of three paintings from Tibet. Each depicts a form of Tara, a female buddha from the…
Introduction to the Tibetan Tara Paintings Conservation Project
Within Tibetan Buddhism, Tara is a buddha and a divine mother. She takes many different forms to come to the aid of beings in need, and she can be…
Looking at Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Interior of a Painter’s Studio , we find the artist hard at work in a spare but disheveled space, with clear…
Issue: Art for This Moment
After a year of anxious interactions, losing ourselves in reveries of art in a public space can feel like a gentle first step back to the social lives…
Issue: Art for This Moment