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Last November, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) unveiled the newest addition to its collection: a marble statue of the goddess Eirene, which, at nine feet tall, towers above visitors. Created around 2000 years ago, "Eirene" is an awe-inspiring piece of Greek antiquity, which constitutes a point of great pride for the museum. But she won’t be there for patrons to admire for much longer: the statue is on loan from the Italian government, and will be reclaimed...
...timing of the "Eirene" loan corresponds with a broad set of investigations and lawsuits regarding looted art that has targeted some of America’s most renowned art institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA, and the university art museums at Yale and Princeton...
...Which playwright has been most influential on your work? CME: Paula Vogel is my teacher and ran the MFA Playwriting Program at Brown, and then I guess Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill. So many people. Though I have to say Shakespeare, of course. Beckett, and I think Maria Irene Fornes too, and I include her because her work has nourished an amazing flowering of the Latino theater...
...hail originally from Australia. Why the move to the U.S.? CME: I came over here to do the MFA and playwriting at Brown and then went on to complete a Ph.D. at Brown. I was just sort of here by then...
...enough of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”), “The Box” was the place.“Mirrorball,” a series of four programs of carefully selected music videos screening at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) through Feb. 23, may be the opposite of “The Box.” Quietly, respectfully watching music videos? In an art museum? If nothing else, the Mirrorball series demonstrates just how much the music video’s cultural place has shifted in recent years.First...