Tag: Museum of Fine Arts
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Life seeking answers at Giza, Nubia
Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.
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Make it new (by making it old)
Frame conservator Allison Jackson recreated a frame for the Harvard Art Museums by 19th-century artist Albert Moore.
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Fall into art
A sampling of the season’s best in local music, theater, and visual arts.
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Summer in the city
Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.
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Studying Japan from ancient to modern
A revered, 700-year-old religious relic and the present-day crisis of declining births are just two of the many focuses of some Harvard researchers.
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More Dutch treasures for Harvard
Harvard Art Museums has announced a major gift of Dutch Golden Age drawings from the Maida and George Abrams collection.
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Museum leaders have more than just art on their minds
Radcliffe hosted directors from five Boston-area museums for a discussion titled “The Museum, the City, and the University.”
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A study in contrast: Copley’s America, America’s Copley
Historian Jane Kamensky’s new book explores the life and times of painter John Singleton Copley.
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‘Disappearing’ Chilean art
New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.
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The mission of art museums
In 20 years as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Malcolm Rogers has often courted controversy with his enthusiastic embrace not only of new media, but new definitions of art itself. Rogers gave the Lowell Lecture at Emerson Hall on Thursday evening.
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The future of archaeology
Smitten as a boy with the wonders of ancient Egypt, archaeologist Peter Der Manuelian deep into excavations but also wedded to the Web.