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...countrymen in India to pray 24 hours a day for his son’s success. The last half, showing the actual competition, is a nail-biter, but the inherent charm present in this great little film never wavers. 2 p.m. Monday and Thursday. $9, $8 students and MFA members. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston...
While heading down the usually quiet Asian Art hallway in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) last Friday, visitors could hear strains of live jazz from the adjoining Koch Gallery bouncing off of the sixth century limestone Chinese sculptures. Between 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., the spacious gallery was packed to full capacity, perhaps the most popular place in town. The occasion was mfafirstfridays, an event that takes place on the first Friday of each month, when the site of one of the museum’s most popular permanent collections becomes a swinging singles scene...
...come to terms with their new leader, a female and the twin of the deceased. Directed with evocative, poignant subtlety by Niki Caro, this film has received accolades for its beautiful cinematography and the breakthrough performance of its young protagonist, played by the precocious newcomer Keisha Castle-Hughes. The MFA, 11 a.m., $8 students...
...that will mostly be new to Americans, proceeding from lustrous 19th century geisha portraits to the post-Modernist shenanigans of Yasumasa Morimura, who makes heavily stage-managed pictures of himself decked out as Western icons of both sexes--sort of the Japanese Cindy Sherman. Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Houston MFA's influential chief photo curator, says she decided to organize the show when she realized how little Americans knew about the field. "What interests me is what we don't know," says Tucker. "Japanese photography is a whole tradition of which we are totally ignorant...
...Boston Globe ran a series of articles suggesting that major American art museums—including Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)—held artwork illegally seized by the Nazis, and the MFA has subsequently given back several pieces from their collection...