MFA
A Big Pile of New Museums!
The new Renzo Piano wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (Photo by Matthew Reed Baker.) The opening of the new addition by Renzo Piano […]
A Veteran’s Day Treat: Beauty as Duty at the MFA
War and fashion: the two topics seem hardly intertwined. And aside from the media’s continuous coverage of Michelle Obama’s wardrobe, it’s rare for fashion to […]
MFA Returns Herakles’s Head to the Turks
Late last week, the Museum of Fine Arts sent the top half of a Weary Herakles back to Turkey. The Turks had long considered the […]
When a Nude is a Dude
Amid all of fanfare surrounding the opening of the new Linde wing at the MFA, the fact that the museum also made a major purchase […]
The MFA Gets Contemporary, Linde-Style
I didn’t mean to keep track of the last time I was in the MFA’s west wing. Not counting trips to the bookstore, I’m pretty […]
MFA Contemporary Art Wing Opens with Ellsworth Kelly Anchor Exhibit
MFA Contemporary Art Wing Opens with Ellsworth Kelly Anchor Exhibit. The Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art is now open, and unlike the museum’s usual […]
Modern Love
The MFA gets hip.
Punching ‘The Clock’ at the MFA
I love a good debate about the arts in the public eye, even when the combatants end up with proverbial black eyes — we don’t […]
The Dazzling New MFA Jewelry Exhibit
The first, and frankly easiest observation to make about the new Jewels, Gems and Treasures: Ancient to Modern exhibition that opened last week at the […]
Aisles With Style
Thanks to some serious revamping, these five Bay State venues are some of the freshest spots to say “I do.”
Lykke Li Acoustic Session at the MFA
As longtime fans of Lykke Li, we naturally had eyes on tickets to her House of Blues show last week. But when the MFA tweeted […]
Plantlike Plague Takes Over the MFA
A freakish plant form has suddenly sprouted at the MFA. Witnesses say it started in the gardens, but quickly spread to the atrium of the […]
MFA’s Chihuly Exhibit: A Glass Act
By: Joseph Gordon Cleveland Dale Chihuly’s decade-spanning career has been defined more by the virtuosity of his glasswork than the emotional impact the pieces themselves […]
The Making of a Masterpiece
Over the past decade, the Museum of Fine Arts has raised more than $500 million as part of an ambitious plan to reinvent itself. This month, the public finally gets to see what a half-billion dollars gets you these days.
Top of Mind: Malcolm Rogers
An extended version of the interview with Malcolm Rogers: curator, fundraiser, rabble-rouser, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts.