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The story of those baby heads on the MFA lawn
Two monumental baby-head sculptures adorn Boston’s linked landscape as they rest on the Fenway entrance lawn of the Museum of…
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Photographer Supporting Pro-Abortion Activism Through Pictures
A western Massachusetts photographer who supports legal abortion is taking photos of people wearing T-shirts with pro-abortion slogans while in…
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Hanukkah theme educates Boston through public art — Gallery
BOSTON – This week, pedestrians strolling past the Milk Street Café outside Post Office Square downtown might be taken aback by giant, round…
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ICA books largest-ever gift with art worth $42 million
BOSTON – The Institute of Contemporary Art received the biggest gift in its history Thursday as local philanthropist Barbara Lee donated 20 works…
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Boston City Hall showcases art for Black History Month
BOSTON – The cement block exterior of City Hall doesn't normally attract admirers, but inside the gray façade, the work of…
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Giant Chinese zodiac sculptures turn heads in Boston
BOSTON (AP) – A dozen giant bronze animal heads representing the signs of the Chinese zodiac are stopping people in their tracks and…
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Documentary photography shines at New England Biennial exhibit
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the talented documentary photographers at the New England Photography Biennial have written a…
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Rethinking Rodin at the Peabody Essex Museum
Rodin: Transforming Sculpture is the latest installation of acclaim at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). According to the museum, the exhibition fundamentally…
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Gardner art heist prompts third search of home
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities returned on Monday to search the Connecticut property of a reputed mobster suspecting of having knowledge about…
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Levine bows out as Met music director after 40 years
NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine, the former Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro, will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at…
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Old painting in French attic may be $135 million masterpiece
PARIS (AP) — A 400-year-old picture that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio has been found in an attic…
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In plain air: The spectacle of looking
They tease me, the Italian men walking in twos along the corso. And the young couples coming in and out of the…
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Finding contemporary religious high art: A Q&A with Aaron Rosen
It is not easy to be a respected member of the art-world intelligentsia and take religion seriously. "Religion and modern…
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Bernie Sanders gets an artistic boost in Boston
BOSTON – While Donald Trump has plenty of branded items – a line of steak, a cologne brand, spring water and 268 others to…
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The elusive art of conversation
Texting and email are valuable innovations, but overdependence on them has left people gasping when faced with ordinary conversation. Add to that…
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Boston calls for ideas to ‘reimagine’ public spaces
BOSTON – Public spaces targeted by a City Hall design competition seeks ideas that would "reimagine" their appearance, Mayor Marty Walsh…
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Boston Symphony wins Grammy for Shostakovich recording
BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra is rhapsodizing over winning the Grammy award for best orchestral performance Monday. The symphony and musical director…
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Boston-based artist shines in the city that never sleeps
Heidy S. Chuang was walking in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City when a sudden rain shower transformed the…
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Reader favorites from 2015: a countdown
BOSTON – You clicked, we listened. Although 2015 was littered with tragic stories and wacky tales, NewBostonPost's most-popular posts ranged…
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Toasting what was and what is yet to come at Gardner Museum
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" Isabella Stewart Gardner welcomed guests to her 15th-century-inspired…
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Collective wins art’s Turner Prize for neighborhood revival
LONDON (AP) — A collective of young architects and designers who regenerated a rundown inner-city area has won art's prestigious…
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American Indian fashion show with a traditional twist
"Fresh, relevant and a little bit sexy" is how Karen Kramer, the Peabody Essex Museum's curator of Native…
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13 museums named recipients of art conservation grants
NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen museums in seven countries have been named recipients of Bank of America grants for the conservation of artworks…
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The MFA’s Dutch Masters: Artistic distinctions then and now
One way to explain the vision of the Museum of Fine Arts' latest exhibit, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age…
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Expert: can’t say if bones in Florence are Mona Lisa model
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Scientific testing of bone fragments from a Florence church grave could not determine whether they are from the body…
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van Gogh estimated to bring $50m to $70m at NYC fall auction
NEW YORK (AP) — A landscape Vincent van Gogh created a year before his death will lead Sotheby's impressionist and modern…
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Get up close and personal with interactive Strandbeests
Theo Jansen introduced Strandbeest to the Peabody Essex Museum in the historic sea port city of Salem, Massachusetts. Now the PEM would…
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Encore! Handel & Haydn Society Bicentennial Display at BPL
With only one week left, the Boston Public Library's exhibit on the Handel & Haydn Society provides a fascinating retrospective…
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Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans
Written by William J. Kole CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Some faces are pensive; others are proud. Some are known; others are obscure. All…
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Rising to the Top: Paul Revere’s Elegant Creamer
Most people know Paul Revere for his famous ride on April 18th, 1775, through the Middlesex countryside warning John Hancock, Samuel Adams,…
