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Coming Attractions at Museums: May 2010

By Peter Walsh Sowers United at the Museum of Fine Arts Despite the Romantic Era notion that great art is always original, artists have always borrowed (or “reimagined” or stolen) each other’s ideas. Modern copyright lawyers would have had a field day with van Gogh’s various Sowers—blatant rip-offs (or “homages” if you prefer) of Millet’s […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions Tagged: Boston, Boston Athenaeum, John Storrs, Millet, modernism, Museum of Fine Arts, peter-Walsh, Sower, van Gogh

Coming Attractions at Museums: February 2010

By Peter Walsh Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA through May 9. Locked into a low-status, unprofitable niche, talented Spanish still-life painter Luis Meléndez (1716–1780) made little money and achieved even less fame during his lifetime. He is said to have complained to the king, who never […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Visual Arts Tagged: Andrea Fraser, Asian Journeys, Boston, Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Charles Simic, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, George Nama, harvard-university, Lisa Fischmann, Luis Meléndez, mcmullen-museum, Museum of Fine Arts, New England, peter-Walsh, Rockefellers, Stephen Vitiello, Visual Arts, Wellesley College

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