![An in-gallery photo of Edgar Degas' Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC6543_4x3.jpg?itok=HTBHYR2I)
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![An in-gallery photo of Edgar Degas' Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC6543_4x3.jpg?itok=HTBHYR2I)
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
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Fashioned by Sargent
“The coat is the picture,” John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever…
![Book cover, Dutch Art in a Global Age](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/Dutch%20Art%20in%20a%20Global%20Age_cover_web.jpg?itok=h41K_vyA)
Dutch Art in a Global Age
The seventeenth century has long been considered a “golden age” for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power…
![Book cover, Strong Women in Renaissance Italy](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-08/StrongWomeninRenaissanceItaly_cover_web_4x3.jpg?itok=Y5AFb_AR)
Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo. But…
![A painting of a woman, Lady Agnew, wearing a purple ruffled dress and ornate necklace sitting in a floral chair against a blue background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-07/SC455644_4x3.jpg?itok=hMtjxRRz)
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…
![An oval painting on parchment, framed by silver, of the artist Sofonisba Anguissola holding a large shield.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2022-07/SC81958_4x3_Crop_V2.jpg?itok=_Msp9HBj)
On view September 9, 2023–January 7, 2024 BOSTON (August 9, 2023)—The history of the Italian Renaissance has long been told through the…
![A terracotta relief of six angels playing various instruments.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC446017_4x3_V1.jpg?itok=TWH5oM4I)
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
![A painting of five grandiosely-dressed people playing instruments near a body of water.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-05/SC423889_4x3.jpg?itok=AG3LRhvW)
“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
![Visitors looking at a marble sculpture of a woman](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/Kore%20670%20Installation%20View_0.jpg?itok=hpK93GkV)
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…
![A painting of a person sitting on a hill with a small house in the distance.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC456199_4x3.jpg?itok=n8J0h3Uh)
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…