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...scientific study to art as with the methods and interpretation of the HUAM study. She notes, for instance, that pigments that had not been patented in the U.S. during Pollock’s lifetime might have been available in other countries.Finally, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) responded by announcing on Jan. 31 that they will conduct another analysis of four of the Matter paintings, tying into an upcoming exhibition of the disputed paintings at Boston College. However, they say that the project will not attempt to verify the works’ authenticity—instead...
...result of drastic changes at Harvard since the time of Frost, Ashbery, and others.“Those generations of poets, coming from whatever class backgrounds they came from, would often go immediately to a place like Harvard,” says Kevin Holden ’05, an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the University of Iowa. “So it’s not so much necessarily Harvard as it was them. You couldn’t write poetry as an undergrad for credit as far as I know, until fairly recently...
...months to see the finished museum; yet viewing the stunning result, one wonders why nothing like the ICA happened until now.This Sunday, the most architecturally interesting building in Boston will open its doors. It is Boston’s first new art museum since the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) opened at its current location on Huntington Ave. in 1909.Not only has there been a dearth of new cultural institutions in Boston, there has been little critically acclaimed architecture here in the 30 years since the construction of I.M. Pei’s John Hancock Tower—an iconic...
...Libertine. Platinum is the new Marie-Antoinette. Leather is the new luxury. Veiling is the new seduction. Dior is the new Erotica.” Written on a wall in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), designer John Galliano’s words sound more like one of Will Ferrell’s lines in “Zoolander” than an artistic credo.But Galliano’s words—shown next to his spring 2006 haute couture collection for iconic fashion house Christian Dior—are displayed with sober seriousness...
Take a Saturday to enjoy the Museum of Fine Arts—free if you bring your Harvard ID—and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The MFA has a Impressionist room that anyone—art aficionado or not—will love, and it has an impressive enough collection that you will walk through the museum and recognize work from your AP Art History class or Literature and Arts Core...