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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…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hosts First U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Painter Matthew Wong
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…
Tiny Treasures
The Magic of Miniatures
Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and across cultures, artists and…
Through its fellowship program, the CNA nurtures future generations of scholars and specialists in Netherlandish Art. The 2022–23 fellows have written…
BOSTON (June 13, 2023)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today the appointment of Ian Alteveer as Beal Family Chair, Department of…
Treasures from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) in Puerto Rico to Be Displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings by legendary Puerto Rican artists José Campeche and Francisco Oller will be presented in dialogue with art from the same period in the MFA’s…