Fwd: October Events for Members and More
Jeanine Swick
some fashion related exhibits coming up
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| Subject: | October Events for Members and More |
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| Date: | 4 Oct 2023 04:23:32 -0700 |
| From: | MFA Membership <membe...@mfa.org> |
| To: | j...@swickfamily.net |
Director’s
Message
“Join
us this fall to enjoy revelatory new exhibitions and
events celebrating culture and creativity. It’s a
wonderful opportunity to get acquainted with works
that may be new to you and gain fresh perspectives on
well-known artists, eras, and styles. We invite you to
explore and experience them together at the MFA at
upcoming community events.”
Read more from Matthew
Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director.
Behind
the Scenes
Dress
Rehearsal
We’re
almost ready for the world premiere of “Fashioned by
Sargent,” a one-of-a-kind exhibition that offers a new
take on a beloved artist. Our exhibitions, design,
conservation, and facilities teams have been hard at
work installing paintings, dresses, and accessories in
the galleries, overseen by Erica Hirshler, Croll
Senior Curator of American Paintings and a leading
expert on Sargent. Take a behind-the-scenes peek and
plan your visit! Member Preview starts today.
New
Multimedia Tours
MFA
Mobile Is Now on Bloomberg Connects!
Free
multimedia tours on MFA Mobile provide insights from
curators, artists, conservators, and others—amplifying
your in-gallery and at-home experience of MFA art. In
the new tour for “Fashioned by Sargent,” delve into
the details of the artist’s creative practice, from
painting style and technique to perspectives on gender
and class. Other current tours include deep dives into
“Strong Women in Renaissance Italy,” ancient Egyptian
and Greek art, and more. Download MFA Mobile on the
Bloomberg Connects app today.
Newly on
View
Toshiko
Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction
Born in Hawaii to immigrant parents from Okinawa, artist Toshiko Takaezu defied societal expectations by boldly pursuing a career in art. She is best known for her ceramic sculptures, which she treated as abstract paintings in the round and often displayed in carefully constructed arrangements.
Challenging traditional presentations of American abstraction popularized by the likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, this exhibition features innovative paintings, weavings, and pottery by Takaezu that demonstrate the extraordinary range of her work. Don’t miss one of the first exhibitions of its kind to celebrate the contributions of this seminal yet underrecognized artist.
MFA First
Fridays Return
Unwind
at the Museum
Join
us on November 3 as we relaunch MFA First Fridays,
back by popular demand and free for members! Relax
from your week with music, dancing, and a curator-led
tour of “Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the
Collection” with artists Venetia Dale and Toni Pepe.
Signature cocktails and delicious bites will be
available for purchase.
Upcoming
Events
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October
9
Sound Bites: Jonathan Suazo
October 12
Music from the Age of
Rembrandt
October 14
MFA Late Nites
October 20
Shapiro Celebrity Lecture:
Jason Moran
October 26
Upcoming
Film Screenings
Bloody Gorgeous: The Art of
Horror
Begins
in October
Boston Palestine Film
Festival
October 13–15
Collection
Highlight
The
dynamic and sculptural fabric constructions made by
Virginia Jacobs incorporate color and pattern from a
range of sources, including Eastern European folk
dance and costume, Hungarian lace patterns, Chinese
embroidery, and Kabuki theatrical costume from
Japan. See the artist’s Celebration
(1979), a recent acquisition on view for the first
time, in “Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from
the Collection,” located on the second floor of our
Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art.
Art for
This Moment
By Katy Hessel, art historian, broadcaster, curator, and author of The Story of Art without Men
Dearest Sofonisba,
I don’t know you. We’ll never meet. I live almost 500 years after you, in a world you wouldn’t recognize. I’m in my 20s; you lived until your 90s. You were a painter; I’m a writer. You communicated through images whereas I use words. But somehow I feel as though I know you. Perhaps it’s the self-portraits I’ve seen of yours—you at the easel and with your teacher; in your youth and in your 90s; your gaze meeting mine with those piercing glassy eyes and that strong-willed stance.
MFA Shop
Art-Inspired
Kicks
The
magnificence of art and nature combine in our new
collaboration with Cariuma. Available in three styles,
their latest sneaker line takes inspiration from
Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great
Wave), an icon of the MFA’s Japanese art
collection.
Seen on
@mfaboston
The
Art of the Japanese Garden
Last month, we welcomed renowned landscape architect Shin Abe and a team of volunteers to tend to our Japanese garden, Tenshin-en. A longtime friend of the MFA, Abe led a group of nine alumni from his alma mater, Tokyo University of Agriculture, who traveled to the United States to perform specialized maintenance on two gardens: the Japanese Peace Bell and Garden at the United Nations in New York City and Tenshin-en at the MFA. Abe has a long association with our garden, having studied under its original designer and worked with us on its 2015 renovation.
Follow
us @mfaboston
On
December 3, spend an afternoon with acclaimed artist and
curator Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) as she
discusses her expansive artistic practice, which
explores abstraction, contemporary issues, Indigenous
languages, and traditional techniques. Tickets for this Ruth and Carl
J. Shapiro Celebrity Lecture, which are discounted
for members, go on sale October 31.
Sponsors
“Fashioned
by Sargent” is sponsored by Bank of America. Generously
supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and
Tom and Bonnie Rosse. Additional support from Lynn Dale
and Frank Wisneski, the Barbara M. Eagle Exhibition
Fund, the MFA Associates / MFA Senior Associates
Exhibition Endowment Fund, the Dr. Lawrence H. and
Roberta Cohn Fund for Exhibitions, and the Alexander M.
Levine and Dr. Rosemarie D. Bria-Levine Exhibition Fund.
“Fashioned by Sargent” is co-organized by the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tate Britain, London.
The
digital experience MFA Mobile is supported by Bloomberg
Philanthropies. The audio of MFA Mobile tours have been
optimized with Knisper: software that uses a smart
algorithm to improve the clarity of voices for everyone,
and particularly for people who are hard of hearing.
Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction is supported by the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Exhibition Fund, The Amy and Jonathan Poorvu Fund for the Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Sculpture, and the Eugenie Prendergast Memorial Fund.
The exhibition would not have been possible without the collaboration of the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. The Noguchi Museum has organized a major touring retrospective, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, which will open in New York in March 2024 and will travel nationally through 2026.
Sound Bites is supported by the Nancy Lee Clark Concert Series Fund.
The Ruth and Carl. J. Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is funded by The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation.
The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures are funded by the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation.
Images
John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (detail), 1883–1884. Oil on canvas. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jean-Philippe Worth, Woman's evening dress (Bodice), about 1895. Silk damask. Gift of Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley
Unidentified
maker, costume for Carmen Dauset Moreno (Carmencita),
about 1890. Silk satin and net, trimmed with silver gilt
thread, spangles, and beads. Private Collection.
Bobby Jae Kim, Toshiko Takaezu
(detail), 1997. Gelatin silver print. Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts, Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, gift
of Bobby Jae Kim, D97.183.1. Image © Bobby J. Kim.
Caitlin Cunningham Photography.
Jeppe Hein, "PLEASE...," 2008. Neon
tubes and seven transformers (120v). Henry and Lois
Foster Contemporary Purchase Fund in loving memory of
Hank from Lois and family. Courtesy: the artist, Johann
Konig, Berlin and 303 Gallery, New York.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Interior
of a Painter’s Studio, about 1630. Oil on panel.
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of
the Center for Netherlandish Art.
Photo by Melissa Isabel.
Photography: Foppe Schut; Artwork: Sophie van Boven, Green Room Creatives.
Caitlin Cunningham Photography.
Photo courtesy of Ari Marcopoulos.
Still from The Others (2001), by
Alejandro Amenábar.
Still from Mediterranean Fever (2022), by Maha Haj.
Still from Perfect Blue (1998), by Satoshi Kon.
Virginia Jacobs, Celebration, 1979. Cotton plain weave, pieced, appliqued and quilted; glass beads. Gift of the artist. Reproduced with permission.
Sheila Hicks, Kneeling Stones, about 1990. Wrapped silk and wool threads, metal. Gift of Edward Merrin and Vivian Merrin. © Sheila Hicks
Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait (detail), about 1556. Possibly oil on parchment. Charles Potter Kling Fund and Beth Munroe Fund—Bequest of Emma F. Munroe.
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2023 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
