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At four years old I saw my first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker , and I immediately fell in love with dance. By age six I was taking my first…

Issue: Art for This Moment

On view October 8, 2023–January 15, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) brought his sitters to life, but he did much more…

On view September 9, 2023–January 7, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—The history of the Italian Renaissance has long been told through the…

How do you start writing a paper, an e-mail, or a letter? Often our first thoughts are not the final product we want other others to read. Instead we…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

“We weep with the weeping, laugh with the laughing, and grieve with the grieving. These movements of the soul are made known by movements of the body…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

BOSTON (June 5, 2023)—About 2,500 years ago, the Acropolis of Athens was filled with statues of young women, called korai. Raised on high bases, these…

On view July 1, 2023–February 14, 2024 BOSTON (June 7, 2023)—Matthew Wong (1984–2019) achieved resounding critical acclaim during his short yet…

Painted around 1609, Peter Paul Rubens’s portrait of Mulay Ahmad depicts an African man from the waist up, standing before a city and a massive…

Issue: Reflections from the Center for Netherlandish Art Fellows

BOSTON (June 9, 2023)—Susan and Matthew Weatherbie and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), have reached an agreement with the heirs of art dealers…

BOSTON (June 13, 2023)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today the appointment of Ian Alteveer as Beal Family Chair, Department of…