Word: mfa
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When Rich E. Freeman ’03 and four friends headed to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to see its recent special modern-art exhibit, they assumed their Harvard IDs would get them in for free...
After all, they had been going to the permanent collection for years without paying—taking advantage of the University’s student deal with the MFA...
...We’re not advocating a keg in a small basement, but rather cocktails on the Common or wine at the MFA,” Chavez says...
Unfortunately, it seems that this message from the MFA is on a certain level correct for the wrong reasons. What the MFA seems to be saying is that people may find Ristelhueber's work particularly disturbing because the images of carnage and war that she chronicles...
...attacks that kill innocent civilians by the thousands are simply part of an immutable historical continuum. The exhibit is not upsetting for what it shows, but for the inappropriate message it offers. Even if Ristelhueber is able to chronicle one disaster after another with artistic detachment, she (and the MFA) should take into account the need at this time for emotional response and moral valuation...