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Fasten your seat belts, we may be in for a bumpy ride. Even before it opens next month at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), "Speed, Style and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection" is producing wary reactions. The Boston Globe has predicted that MFA director Malcolm Rogers will get a hard time from his critics, not for accepting Lauren's automobiles, but for succumbing to his public relations machinery. Art critics and museum professionals have in the past accused Rogers of pandering to popular taste to pump up admission figures, and of cashing in on the museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, You Can See My Cars | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

...when the collector is a design tycoon and lifestyle vendor like Lauren, the real question is how to avoid making the exhibition, which will run from March 6 to July 3, just another branding opportunity for his company. The MFA's answer is to confine Lauren mostly to a big wet kiss of an interview in the catalog, where he offers purring reflections on style, plugs his running shoes and tells us that fashion and automobiles make a perfect fit. In fact, the fashion show he just sent down the New York City catwalks was inspired by his cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, You Can See My Cars | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

Saturday, February 12. Antony and the Johnsons. All ages. 8 P.M. Museum of Fine Arts. $15; Students, seniors, and MFA members $12. Tickets at MFA or www.mfa.org...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Happening Listings | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

Next year I would either like to be tucked away in an MFA [Master of Fine Arts] program somewhere or in New York (and there, I would like to either work at some artsy or intellectual magazine or raid the designer closet at Vogue). In 10 years, I would like to be in New York writing novels and doing the same...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight - Julia C. Wong '05 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...City’: Tales of Historic Kyoto.” While the course description stated that there was a possibility of a class trip, Hamden remembers being unclear whether that meant “a trip to Japan or a trip to the MFA.” Her professor, Mikael Adolphson, funded the trip through grants...

Author: By Emily T. Sabo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Culture On Harvard’s Dime | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

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