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Only 14 years after this gender-based decision, the magazine The Art Amateur would remark, “There is nothing that men do that is not done by women now in Boston.” The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston took this quotation as a cue to laud the woman artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In its most recent exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940,” the MFA draws from its own collections, as well as private collections to show...
...others." The past 25 years have been a time of phenomenal growth for museums, especially in cities outside the old money circles of the Northeast and Chicago. No other curator has taken advantage of this opportunity with more panache than Tucker. In 1976, when she arrived at the Houston MFA, it was a museum with fewer photographs than you probably have on your refrigerator. Thanks to her canny shopping and her charms as a donor magnet--plus an endowment that rose from $25 million in 1982 to $448 million last year--it now has a collection of nearly...
...magnificent art and beautiful flowers. The colorful, gravity-defying bouquets in “Art in Bloom” will win over even the most hardened skeptic. And given the amount of public interest and revenue that “Art in Bloom” generates for the MFA, it is no wonder that the event has become the darling of both the museum and its visitors...
...lovers of great art and great flowers, “Art in Bloom” does not disappoint. Instead, it provides viewers with the chance to see many of the favorite MFA works—and a few new ones—from a refreshing perspective...
...fact, he will have an extra two. In the fall he plans to continue to refine his collection while completing a two-year MFA program at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, “a big writers community stuck out in the cornfields with nothing to do but drink in the two bars there and write...