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

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

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

Last July my friend Griffin visited me in Boston. I couldn’t wait to update them on everything new and exciting in my life. First we visited the MFA…

Issue: Art for This Moment

In partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Bank of America is proud to sponsor Fashioned by Sargent, which offers a unique look at the use of…

The quilt atop my childhood bed has given warmth to me and three generations of women in my family. Its lace overlay has torn, its doily appliqué has…

Issue: Art for This Moment

Dearest Sofonisba, I don’t know you. We’ll never meet. I live almost 500 years after you, in a world you wouldn’t recognize. I’m in my 20s; you lived…

Issue: Art for This Moment

Treatment of two more sculptures, Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light and the elaborate Dainichi, the Buddha of Infinite Illumination with mandorla…

Issue: Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures

The conservation studio set up in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) closed to the pubic in December 2022, dismantled to make way for a…

Issue: Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures