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...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 the Boston public that female artists of this period were a force with whom to be reckoned...
Located in one of the MFA’s smaller galleries, “A Studio of Her Own” winds through three rooms, separated chronologically into “Post-Civil War America,” “Arts and Crafts Movement,” and “The Boston School and Modernism” groupings. The small size of the gallery—significantly smaller than the galleries used for recent blockbuster exhibitions—only allows for a Cliffs Notes version of the work of Boston female artists during this period...
...quick to point out, in a move that comes across as making excuse for the lack of space devoted to “A Studio of Her Own,” that the exhibition is not intended to represent all female artists in Boston at the time, but merely to show some of the best individual pieces. The limited wall and floor space, coupled with the many diverse forms of art being displayed give the exhibition a disjointed feel...
...acknowledging the flaws with “A Studio of Her Own,” however, one must not overlook the strong aspects of the exhibit. The small size of the exhibit also creates an intimacy not found in some of the larger exhibits that the MFA has recently housed. Likewise, gallery traffic is decidedly slower than usual, so that visitors to “A Studio of Her Own” do not have to jockey for position to see every painting...
...Today, Hosokawa spends most of his time making clay pots in his studio in Atami, a beachside city 100 km south of Tokyo. "I tried to break the system from the outside," he said recently in an interview at his home. "Koizumi is trying to do it from the inside." Now 63, the former Prime Minister concedes he bit off more than he could chew. "I look back and realize how strong this system is, how very deeply rooted in Japanese culture it is," he says. But he betrays no bitterness toward his adversaries or regrets about...