Thursday, June 30, 2011
Brandeis University will keep the Rose Art Museum open and sell none of its prized collection, according to a court settlement announced yesterday. The deal effectively ends the bitter two-y…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:15PMSunday, June 26, 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts has agreed to pay restitution to the heir of a Jewish art dealer killed at Auschwitz after determining that a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection was once o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:16PMThursday, June 16, 2011
Nearly two years after an ugly spat that led to its director’s exit, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art has a new leader.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
At about 7:03 last night, Chris Krohn, a tourist from Santa Cruz, Calif., did a double take as he entered a men’s room at the Museum of Fine Arts. There were crowds of people gathered …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:54PMThursday, May 12, 2011
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new wing — including galleries, a greenhouse, restaurant, 296-seat concert hall, and space for educational programs — is scheduled to …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:55AMFriday, May 6, 2011
Q. We last spoke in 2006, before another Opera Boston production. Were you already diagnosed with MS?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PMTuesday, May 3, 2011
There were long lines when artist Christian Marclay’s latest creation, a 24-hour film, “The Clock,’’ showed in New York and London. And today, the Museum of Fine Arts…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:13PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
I’m standing on Harrison Avenue waiting for the bus. Not just any bus. On this chilly, spring day, I’m waiting for the Art Bus, a shuttle service created to get gallery-hoppers t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMTuesday, April 26, 2011
Sam Martinborough gathered his mainly teenage cast on the bare plywood set for the opening circle exercise that marks the start of each workday. The conversation starter on this bright after…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:11PMThursday, April 14, 2011
On the screen, a man with a sharp knife taped to his face chops an apple on a moving turntable. It’s an odd and twisted moment. So is another, of the same guy, burying a record player …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:59AMSaturday, April 9, 2011
There will be dance, electronic music, and art exhibitions across the city. But the organizers of the Boston Cyberarts Festival expect families will be particularly drawn to the Egyptian sce…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSunday, March 20, 2011
With the early 2012 opening of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new wing approaching, the museum announced today the hiring of a new curator of the collection, its key curatorial …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:23PMThursday, March 10, 2011
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has decided to take the ambitious — and expensive — step of upgrading its collection by commissioning a work by British sculptor Andy Gold…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:33PMSaturday, February 19, 2011
When the alarm went off at the home of perhaps the world’s greatest collectors of 17th-century Dutch art, the police raced to the scene. And Marblehead’s finest didn’t like…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThursday, February 10, 2011
The heat was broken, so the trio behind Boston’s newest gallery wore scarves and coats and huddled around an electric teapot.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PMFriday, December 24, 2010
You ever read Phil Spector’s tweets? Sure, the “Wall of Sound’’ producer is cooling his heels in a California prison until at least around 2028 for killing a C-movie …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PMYou ever read Phil Spector’s tweets? Sure, the “Wall of Sound’’ producer is cooling his heels in a California prison until at least around 2028 for killing a C-movie …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00PMSunday, December 19, 2010
The embroidered panel is just 14-by-20 inches. But the director of the tiny Italian museum never forgot it. Just before World War II, he spotted it in a drawer of a church in Trent, a town i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:10PMWednesday, December 8, 2010
The award money was never much to begin with. But that did not bother Laura Chasman. Winning the $5,000 Maud Morgan Prize meant a show at the Museum of Fine Arts.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:20AMSaturday, December 4, 2010
There were no seats yet, only bare red girders, and no stage, just a concrete floor open to the sky. Water was everywhere. It had been raining all morning.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMSaturday, November 13, 2010
The museum director walked into the gallery and put his hands on his hips. Malcolm Rogers appeared deep in thought as installers, wearing gloves, delicately moved a 17th-century writing cabi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2009
Isaac Akiba doesn’t look like a star. At just 5 feet, 7 1/2 inches and 135 pounds, he’s undersized for a dancer, particularly at a major company such as Boston Ballet.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:20PM 
