MFA

Been writing a review of the new Americas Wing at the MFA Boston for arts fuse. While I was there, I took a few snaps for y'all.



Is that Mary Cassatt's Letter print and the actual desk that she owned? Why yes it is!



Asher Brown Durand's Ariadne (OG Painting). Isn't it nice that the general museum goer gets to see different states? Something for the nerds that educates the general public to our processes is good by me.



The period rooms have reproductions (and by repros, I mean digital copies of original prints) of things like maps, The Enraged Musician, the Oath of the Horatii, and other classics from each era.



Decorative chrysanthemums paper from an unidentified artist. Lovely.



Double Arthur Wesley Dow works.



Fireworks over the River Thames and Whitehall in 1685 from an anonymous artist. Printed for King James II's coronation.



Strange moment here. Behind me was the small version of Watson and the Shark from Copley. In front of me is an oil copy from Henry Sargent and a mezzotint from Valentine Green. Both are copies, but maybe the general audience is going to say that the print is somehow more a copy? Even weirder, is the little copy behind me the original, or are there multiple originals? Print nerds care about strange things....

A ton of interesting print nerd things at the MFA. Will be processing that info soon for printeresting.

It's 2011?

Good lord! There aren't movies made about dates after 2010, so we must live in the future. (except 2012, which I refuse to accept as a movie at all. Good lord...)

Donald Kelley in Boston.
Brice Marden at the Danforth.
Rhoda Rosenberg also at the Danforth.
Fresh Ink at the MFA Boston. (Feel free to click on the picture, it's a detail of a work by Xu Bing. He made a print out of a traditional painted scroll.)

Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David Driskell, Part 1 at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Durer at the Clark.
Marian O'Connell at the Newport Art Museum.
Goya's Bull Fight series is at the Worcester Art Museum.
Turning the Page, the Evolution of Artists' Book is at Wheaton College.
Prints for the Japanese New Year is at RISD.
Artists Abroad at the MFA Boston. I'm reviewing the new wing for Arts Fuse. Look for that in Feb. Good lord they have up 4 of Mary Cassatt's full color prints. Dreamy. I promise photos of this show.

Last, 4th estate at Wild Project.

MFA Boston in late Oct of 2010

The New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages from the MFA is always a good go. They also have up Millet and Rural France, a quick hallway show that follows Café and Cabaret: Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris.


The New Work Show-- From L->R-- Christiane Baumgartner (Trails 1 + 2), Ralph Coburn (Untitled 1961), Alan Shields (Frute Dish 1974), James Siena (Upsidedown Devil Variation 2004), and Tara Donovan (untitled 2008)


James Siena- Upsidedown Devil Variation from 2004. Sexy intaglio.


Some guy named Jasper Johns? Untitled 1995 ULAE printed.


Man Turning Over the Soil-- an 1863 Wood Engraving that was unfinished by Millet.