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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…
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
On view in the Asian Paintings Gallery through November 27, 2023 In China, rocks in their natural form are objects of great aesthetic appreciation. As…
翁氏家藏精品展·奇石拙趣
亞洲繪畫廳展覽至2023年5月3日 在中國,收藏、品鑑石頭有著悠久的歷史。早在一千年以前,嚴肅的藝術鑑賞者和評論家用對待書畫藝術的熱情收购赏石。比之表面的美麗,收藏家更喜歡尋找不對稱、不光滑也不漂亮的石頭,欣賞它富含表現力又出其不意的拙趣。他們用「怪石」或者「奇石」來稱贊描述自己喜歡的石頭…
"Philip Guston Now," First Retrospective of Influential Artist's Work in Nearly 20 Years, to Debut at MFA Boston
On View in Boston, First Venue for the International Tour, from May 1–September 11, 2022 Public Programs to Address Guston’s Legacy and Relevance…
"Philip Guston Now" Wall Texts
Introduction Philip Guston (1913–1980) was born in Montreal, Canada, to Jewish immigrants from Odessa, in present-day Ukraine. Raised in Los Angeles…
BOSTON (April 13, 2022)—This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will debut Frank Bowling’s Americas , the first major survey of the artist’s…