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MFA: Leonardo Da Vinci

April 20, 2015 // 1 Comment

We went to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to see their new Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit last Friday afternoon. As a big Da Vinci fan, the folks here were tickled that they [...]

MFA: Goya

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

We got a preview of MFA’s upcoming Goya exhibition on Monday. The last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns, Goya is an astute observer of the human [...]

Sensu Brush FirstUse

September 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

When digital tablets came onto the scene many saw their potential as a portable canvas for budding Rembrandts, Picassos, and Monets. Apps for sketching and painting showed [...]

MFA: Magna Carta

July 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Everyone has heard of Magna Carta, but few have had the privilege of seeing the 800-year-old document in person. Magna Carta, written in 1215, is the foundation of much what [...]

MFA: Return Of The Dragon

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Dragon and Clouds (1763), by the eccentric Japanese artist Soga Shohaku (1730-1781), has returned to the Museum of Fine Arts after touring Japan as part of an [...]

MFA : John Singer Sargent watercolors

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

The first day of the New Year is always a special day, symbolically anyway. We had a pretty awesome 2013 and are really looking forward to 2014. What made 2013 extremely [...]

MFA: Samurai!

April 10, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is renowned the world over for breadth and depth of its Japanese collection, holding as it does over 100,000 artefacts. When we heard that [...]

Visit to the ICA

March 9, 2012 // 0 Comments

Boston has an incredible waterfront, but amazingly has never really been developed. One of the reasosn was that the Central Artery (Rt 93) had cut off the waterfront from [...]

MFA: Seeking Shambhala

March 7, 2012 // 0 Comments

In 1933, British author James Hilton wrote in Lost Horizon about a place of peace and happiness. This place, where the inhabitants were isolated from the ills of the [...]

MFA: Chihuly

April 6, 2011 // 0 Comments

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, WA, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design a the University of Washington. Chihuly continued his studies at RISD, where [...]

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