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City Council Updates: Diversity in Boston’s Art Communities and Textile Recycling

The Boston City Council will hold hearings regarding how to promote diversity in Boston’s art community. This comes after a controversy on how black students were treated on a school trip at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) last month. Two seventh grade students said they were subjected to racist comments and harassment while visiting Read More…

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Library Lecture: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris

Join the North End Library for a Museum of Fine Arts guide’s discussion of the museum’s current “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris” exhibition, which runs from April 7 – August 14. The presentation will include vivid posters, prints, and paintings in which Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) captured Parisian nightlife in the late nineteenth century, Read More…

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North End Artist, Maddy Ward, on Display at Museum of Fine Arts

Maddy Ward, 17, of the North End and a senior at Boston Latin this Fall, had her work, “Student Athlete,” selected for a juried exhibition by the MFA Teen Arts Council at the Museum of Fine Arts. Maddy and the other winning teen artists were recently honored at an MFA reception. Their works will be Read More…

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Neighborhood Photo: MFA’s “Fruit Tree” Comes to Life at Faneuil Hall

“Fruit Tree” by Seoul-based artist Choi Jeong Hwa is an inflatable artwork on display this Summer at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, captured here by Rita Pagluica. Featured by the Museum of Fine Arts, the “Fruit Tree” came to life on Friday and is one of the 19 pieces of “Megacities Asia” on display at the MFA through Read More…

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Shinique Smith’s “Seven Moon Junction” Mural Completed on Rose Kennedy Greenway

The latest mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway has been finished featuring artist Shinque Smith’s “Seven Moon Junction.” The mural is the third of its kind at the Dewey Square location following the first by Brazilian artists Oz Gemeos and most recently by Matthew Richie’s Remanence. The previous two murals were partnerships with the Institute Read More…