Word: mfa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston Museum Trio with Christopher Krueger om Concert at the Museum of Fine Arts: 8:00pm, Remis Auditorium, $8 for MFA members, students, and senior citizens, $10 general admission...
...following this pattern, the ICA represents a very different philosophy from that which guides traditional art institutions like the Museum of Fine Arts. While both institutions are concerned primarily with displaying art and educating the public, the ICA shows only contemporary works, whereas institutions like the MFA, obviously, have displays from all periods. A natural divergence results from this philosophical division. Institutions like the MFA are museums, they collect art and so take on the responsibilities of investigating, maintaining and educating the public about the works in their collections. The ICA, concerned as it is with...
...Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League But a after a few years of searching for a novel direction, moving through New York's most sophisticated artistic circles in the process. Porter developed a nostalgic admiration for the straight forward beauties of Impressionism. As Ken worth Moffett, an MFA curator, notes, to Porter "Impressionism was the painterly way of recreating the presence of reality...
...Both the MFA and the Fogg have made substantial loans of Goya's prints to what one curator at the Fogg described yesterday as and "extraordinary exhibition." As a result, museum officials have offered to let the class view the exhibit after closing hours...
Undergraduates from two other colleges--Tufts and Wellesley--are among the four students in the seminar, which is taught at MFA...