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...museum had always been able to buy work, it would now have “one of the greatest collections in the country, if not the world,” said Barbara Lee, a Boston philanthropist whose foundation has donated $6.5 million to the new building...
...million expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts will open in 2010, and the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum is planning a new building, according to their respective websites...
...what will set the ICA apart from the wave of new construction? As Lee puts it, “Most museums focus on history rather than making history. The ICA is a museum that makes history...
Under director Jill Medvedow, the ICA is involved in creating art as well as exhibiting it; among its many projects, the museum funds outdoor conceptual art installations across the city, like this year’s computer-animated illustrations of pedestrians by Julian Opie displayed on LED screens on Northern Avenue Bridge...
...Department of Contemporary Art at the MFA, for example, deals with all art made after 1955. While the museum does acquire recent work, the department’s strength is its collection of early 1960s color-field painters...