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<title>Using The iPhone At Auction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A private collection offers rare gems from Robert Mapplethorpe and Heinrich Kuehn.]]></description>
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<title>At Auction: Fine China</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New rules to know before buying Chinese antiquities at auction]]></description>
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<title>Nov 7: Art Classes - SB18f: Stonybrook Electrolytic Etching, Adult</title>
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<description><![CDATA[10:00 AM - 4:30 PMOne-day workshop, Nov 7

Learn etching techniques to create decorative metal work and intaglio or relief printing without acids, toxic fumes, or chemicals. Explore etching resists and design considerations by etching your own plates in brass, copper, or steel. Bring black-and-white designs or high contrast digital images to print.  Ages 18 and older; ages 15–17 with written parental/guardian permission

Price: $185

The MFA is delighted to present programming with Stonybrook Fine Arts. Founded by MFA instructor Morris Norvin, Stonybrook Fine Arts is a sculpture studio and foundry located in Jamaica Plain featuring small classes in a variety of media. Courses  include Stick, MIG, and TIG welding; bronze casting; mold making; ceramic sculpture; live figure modeling; and jewelry making. All courses and workshops include a tour of the Museum’s collections of sculpture and metals. Easily accessible by the Orange line, there is also on-street parking available. No experience necessary (except as noted); all course and workshop sizes are limited to provide a safe working environment. All tools and materials are provided. For more information on Stonybrook Fine Arts, visit www.stonybrookfinearts.com or call 617-522-3331.

 Location: Stonybrook Fine ArtsClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Gallery Activities - Artist Toolbox Cart: Painting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 4:00 PMDiscover our newest drop-in program, one that lets you explore the tools and materials that artists use, right in the galleries.  Handle artist’s tools and view demonstration pieces that reveal the step-by-step process behind the creation of objects in the Museum’s collection. Knowledgeable staff are available to answer your questions and discuss techniques.  
 Location: Impressionism and 20th century European gallery Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Gallery Activities,Youth &#x26; Families - Family Art Cart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 4:00 PMDiscover the MFA with fun (and educational!) activities designed for children ages 4 and up to do with adults in the galleries. Piece together puzzles, learn mythical tales, and uncover ancient Egyptian mysteries. Choose from our ever-changing array of interactive activities, books and Art Cards. Borrow a tote bag equipped with a sketch-book and colored pencils, and the Cart’s staff will point you on your way! Look for the rolling red Family Art Cart in the Sharf Visitor Center. 

FREE with Museum admission.

The Family Art Cart is made possible with endowment support from the Germeshausen Foundation Fund for Youth and Family Learning, the John and Dorothy Wilson Fund, and the Louise O. and Robert F. Levin Fund for Innovation in Teaching. Additional support for self-guiding materials provided by The Lowell Institute.
 Location: Sharf Visitor CenterClick here for details Language: English(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Guided Tours - Introduction to Museum Collections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from the collections. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[12:00 PM - 1:00 PMThe Greek representation of the human body was thought to be one the culture's greatest artistic contributions. During this gallery talk led by Jennifer Ledig, come look at the newly installed gallery of Greek sculpture, and consider its place in the history of art, as well as its influence on Roman artists. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of the Ancient(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[12:30 PM - 1:30 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from the collections. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Film - Severed Ways</title>
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<description><![CDATA[1:00 PM - 2:50 PMSevered Ways by Tony Stone (2009, 107 min.). In the year 1007, an expedition of Vikings arrived on the shores of the New World, then travels south in search of a fabled Vinland. When their party is attacked and flees to safety, two men are left behind. Alive but stranded on the rocky shore, the men move north in hopes of reuniting with their countrymen. As they struggle to survive in the vast forests of the New World, their paths diverge as one pursues a spiritual quest and the other reverts to his primal instincts. Although the terrain seems dense and deserted, they are not the only people in the woods: Native Americans and Irish monks are also staking claim in the New World. “ Severed Ways is a visionary work from one of the most promising new American narrative filmmakers in recent years” (Eric Hynes, Indiewire.com). Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: Members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Gallery Activities - Spotlight Talk: A Foretaste of Disaster: Henri Regnault&#x27;s &#x27;Automedon&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[1:00 PM - 1:15 PMJoin Justine De Young, graduate research intern, Art of Europe, for a 15-minute spotlight talk in the 19th century European gallery, focusing on 1-3 works of art. Look more closely and discover interesting facts and stories about these important objects in the Museum. Location: 19th-Century European Gallery Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Europe(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[1:30 PM - 2:30 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces of European and American painting. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[3:00 PM - 3:15 PMJoin Justine De Young, graduate research intern, Art of Europe, for a 15-minute spotlight talk in the 19th century European gallery, focusing on 1-3 works of art. Look more closely and discover interesting facts and stories about these important objects in the Museum. Location: 19th-Century European Gallery Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Europe(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[3:00 PM - 4:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from the collections. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Film - Crude</title>
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<description><![CDATA[3:10 PM - 4:55 PM Crude by Joe Berlinger  (2009, 105 min). Go inside the story of the "Amazon Chernobyl" case, in which 30,000 indigenous Amazon rainforest dwellers filed a lawsuit against corporate giant Chevron-Texaco: the oil company fights allegations of increasing health problems, birth defects, and destruction of their indigenous way of life. Although our sympathy lies with the indigenous people and their lawyer, Pablo Fajardo, Berlinger presents this epic environmental law cases from multiple points of view, including interviews with Chevron-Texaco’s lawyer and environmental scientists. The case, whose battleground spread from the court to the jungle and to three different continents, grew to epic proportions, attracting media attention and celebrity involvement. “Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of Crude. These real characters and events play out on the screen like a sprawling legal thriller” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times). 

Discussion with the director follows screening. Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: Members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Film - Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil&#x27;s 1924 Ballet Mecanique</title>
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<description><![CDATA[5:20 PM - 6:35 PM Bad Boy Made Good: The Revival of George Antheil’s 1924 Ballet M&eacute;canique by Ron Frank (2003, 74 min.). George Antheil, the self-proclaimed "Bad Boy of Music," was a brash, colorful, and young "ultra-modern" American pianist and composer during the roaring '20s. His works caused fistfights in concert halls and riots in the streets from London to Budapest. His magnum opus, the "Ballet M&eacute;canique," for percussion, sound effects, and multiple player pianos, turned Paris on its ear in 1924. But the piece called for technology that didn't exist at the time. It took a forward-thinking music publisher, a music technologist, a modern player-piano manufacturer, and the latest in computer technology before the piece was heard the way the composer wanted it-seventy-five years after it was written.  

 Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: Members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Film - Eli &#x26; Ben preceded by Gefilte Fish</title>
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<description><![CDATA[7:00 PM - 8:40 PM Eli & Ben (Eli v'Ben) by Ori Ravid (Israel, 2008, 89 min., 35 mm). In Ori Ravid’s debut feature film, 12-year-old Eli's world is turned upside down when his father Ben (Lior Ashkenazi), the city architect of suburban Herzliya set to receive the Israel Prize, is charged with taking bribes. Watching the police take his father into custody changes everything for Eli.  When the police question him about his father’s actions, Eli begins to feel like a double agent.  Where, he wonders, is the truth? . In Hebrew with English subtitles. 

Gefilte Fish by Shelly Kling (Israel, 2008, 10 min., video). In Gali’s family, every engaged woman must prepare gefilte fish for her fiance as a good-luck charm for their marriage. When Gali becomes engaged to Yaron, her mother and grandmother give her a living carp to cook—but those big, pleading carp eyes beg Gali to abandon her family tradition. In Hebrew with English subtitles. Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: MFA and BJFF Members, seniors, and students $10; general admission $12Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Film - He&#x27;s My Girl</title>
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<description><![CDATA[9:15 PM - 10:45 PM He's My Girl (La folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazi) by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (France, 2009, 90 min., 35 mm). Director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann checks in on Simon and Rosalie, the stars of his Man is a Woman (1998 Festival) ten years after their marriage breaks up.  Simon’s Ashkenazi mother accepts that he’s gay, but doesn’t realize that her pretty nurse is the Arab cross-dresser who steals her son’s heart. In the midst of this farce, Rosalie returns to Paris to star in Fiddler on the Roof with her new family in tow: a husband and the precocious son who Simon hasn’t seen in a decade. It’s a bit of tzimmes, or stew, of the tastiest sort. In French with English subtitles. 

Discussion with the director follows screening. Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: MFA and BJFF members, seniors, and students $10; general admission $12Click here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - RSVP: Jim Lambie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11/10/2007 - 12/31/2009  Scottish artist Jim Lambie is the third artist to participate in the series RSVPmfa, in which the Museum invites artists to consider the extraordinary collections, architecture, and grounds that comprise the Museum of Fine Arts as a background for the installation of their work. 

Lambie transforms ordinary objects—vinyl tape, turntables, speakers, doors, mirrors, clothing, chairs—that he finds on the street or buys in secondhand and hardware stores into vibrant sculptures and site-specific installations. Lambie champions sensory pleasure over intellectual response, approaching his work with a simplicity and straightforwardness of form and material. "I'm not an information artist, I'm not like a schoolteacher, I'm just working with materials," says Lambie, who experiments with space and form in a way that breaks with traditional notions of elegance, deploying humble materials to create objects and installations that challenge the high-tech, high-brow aesthetics common to much of contemporary art and design. 

Lambie redefines the shapes and relationships of the materials he uses without veering too far away from simply letting them be what they are. Like music, which serves as an artistic model for him, Lambie’s art fills its surroundings and transforms the environment: "You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you." In Jim Lambie’s hands, ordinary objects are transformed into powerful, enigmatic, and compelling environments where the edges disappear and the space he makes is for you. 

This exhibition made possible by The Contemporaries, whose generous donations directly support the Museum's Department of Contemporary Art.

Read the Boston Globe article about the installation. Location: Cohen GalleriaClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Preserving History, Making History:&#x3C;br&#x3E;The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 12/31/2010  As part of celebrating the renovation and re-opening of the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, this exhibition tells the story of the Museum's history, its architecture, and its vital role as a community resource and partner.

Rarely seen historic photographs, paintings, sculpture, archival documents, and architectural fragments bring the long and distinguished history of the MFA to life for a new generation. The exhibition, on view in the Lower Hemicycle, opens with the founding of the MFA in 1870 and documents the first Museum building in Copley Square, as well as the many expansions and renovations to the Museum's present home on Huntington Avenue, which opened in 1909. It also explores current and future building plans, including the transformative project underway now and the recent acquisition of the Forsyth Institute building.
 Location: Lower HemicycleClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Showa Sophistication: &#x3C;br&#x3E;Japan in the 1930s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2/11/2009 - 11/8/2009  The Museum recently acquired seventeen Japanese paintings largely produced and exhibited in Tokyo in the 1930s—the early Sh&#333;wa era—an overlooked period in the history of the arts in Japan. In many cases the subject matter, as well as the size, gave these paintings a commanding presence: large, elegant images of skiers, of stylish tea-house attendants in an art deco tea room, of young women in the latest Parisian fashion standing on the prow of a sailboat, and of a traditional Japanese woman standing in front of a decorated Christmas tree.
 
Painted for Japanese audiences, and exhibited at the leading Tokyo annual exhibitions, these paintings expressed a worldview held by large numbers of Japanese during the 1930s. They saw themselves as sophisticated citizens of the world: Their country created a national park system to rival that of the United States, their country sent successful teams to both the winter and summer Olympics (and, in fact, was awarded the right to host the 1940 games by the International Olympic Committee), and they celebrated Christmas exactly as all western countries did (although in Japan it did not have any religious significance). In "Sh&#333;wa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s," these works are interpreted from the point of view of their contemporary Japanese audience, putting the images in their social context and that of artistic tradition from which they emerged.
 Location: Second-Floor Japanese GalleriesClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[7/1/2009 - 2/21/2010  
Technology has rendered music more accessible and pervasive than ever before. MP3 players are omnipresent; every cell phone can make a statement about the owner's musical taste. Music is everywhere, and in the process has become both more public and more private. We all travel through life with our own soundtrack&#151;sometimes others can hear it; sometimes it's ours alone. 

Visual artists, however, have been inspired by music throughout history. They have responded by transforming something that is arguably intangible, into visual, physical form. "Seeing Songs" presents an eclectic mix of work&#151;mainly from the Museum's collections&#151;that draws on music as inspiration, focusing on abstract as well as representational art and connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz, and pop. From lyrical works on paper by Wassily Kandinsky and a painting by Stuart Davis that depicts music as gesture and improvisation, to recent videos by Gillian Wearing and Candice Breitz that explore the relationship between pop stars and their fans, this exhibition brings together an international group of artists in whose work we see songs. Location: Foster GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Echoes of Heian Kyo:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Court Culture in the Floating World</title>
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<description><![CDATA[7/25/2009 - 3/7/2010  Look back to the glorious past of the ancient Japanese imperial capital of Kyoto, originally called Heian-ky&#333;, as it was envisioned by artists of the ukiyo-e school working many centuries later in the city of Edo (modern Tokyo). The exquisitely refined court culture of the Heian period (794-1185), named for the city, and the flamboyant urban popular culture of the Edo period (1615-1868), the Floating World (ukiyo), are playfully juxtaposed in prints, paintings, and book illustrations that implicitly compare the commoners of early modern Edo to the lords and ladies of ancient Heian-ky&#333;: the beautiful poet Ono no Komachi, the ardent lover Ariwara Narihira, the fictional paragon Prince Genji, and many more. The greatest classics of courtly literature were presented visually in serious, straightforward versions; in modern updates; and even in humorous parodies. These vivid images helped to make the heritage of classical Japanese literature not just the property of a small group of aristocrats, but part of a national culture shared by all social classes.

“Echoes of Heian-Ky&#333;: Court Culture in the Floating World” is the third in our series of exhibitions (along with “Celebrating Kyoto: Modern Arts from Boston’s Sister City,” on view through September 7, 2009, and the past exhibition “Visions of Kyoto: Scenes from Japan’s Ancient Capital”) commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the sister city relationship between Boston and Kyoto.
 Location: Japanese Woodblock Prints GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Glorious Beasts in Persian Painting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[8/22/2009 - 4/11/2010  Using selections from the Museum’s collection of Persian paintings for inspiration, Conley Harris, an artist and collector of Indian and Persian art, has created six interpretative works depicting a continuing theme in Persian paintings: animals and landscape. Displayed beside the Museum’s 15th- through 17th-century paintings in the Islamic Corridor, “Glorious Beasts in Persian Paintings” emphasizes unique aspects of Persian painting including history, techniques, and traditions. Responding to a 16th-century manuscript depicting a hunting scene, Harris created High-spirited Horseman, shown above, a vibrant painting intended to “simultaneously evoke the original’s elegance and designed confusion…Everything is layered, all the colors are heightened and the action blurred by the raging chaos of battle.” Location: Islamic CorridorClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Tibet/China Confluences</title>
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<description><![CDATA[8/26/2009 - 5/23/2010  The Carpenter gallery is usually home to Chinese paintings, of which the Museum of Fine Arts holds one of the world’s great collections. The current exhibition is a departure. It does feature some Chinese paintings, but it also includes works from Tibet. Since the fourteenth century, Chinese and Tibetan art have engaged in a vigorous and mutually sustaining dialogue, each side learning from and influencing the other. "Tibet/China Confluences" explores that dialogue.

Tibetan paintings first appeared in China in large numbers during the fourteenth century. Their vibrant colors, intense imagery, and bold compositions attracted Chinese viewers, and Chinese painters began to borrow aspects of Tibetan style. In turn, Tibetan painters emulated the sensitive naturalism of the Chinese tradition—botanical paintings and landscapes in particular. The resulting works are sometimes called "Sino-Tibetan" or "Tibeto-Chinese," reflecting the fact that the traditions are often so closely interwoven as to constitute new, hybrid styles. 

With support from the June N. and John C. Robinson Fund for Chinese Paintings in Honor of Marjorie C. Nordblom Location: Carpenter GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Patterns of Long Ago: Reflections&#x3C;br&#x3E;of China in Japanese No Costume</title>
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<description><![CDATA[9/30/2009 - 5/31/2010  Just as the stories of many No plays—peopled with historic and legendary figures, gods, spirits, and ghosts—are drawn from the classical literature of the Heian (794–1185) or Kamakura (1185–1336) periods, the robes worn by the actors recall court costumes of the Nara (710–794) and Heian periods, which were made of sumptuous woven silks imported from China. Many Chinese symbols, motifs, and repeat patterns, along with Chinese weaving technology, were adopted by Japanese craftsmen during these same periods. Although heavy woven silks and formal patterns borrowed from China—such as the "seven jewels" design and karahana (Chinese flower) motif—gradually fell out of fashion for everyday wear, they continued to be used for No costumes, as a means of evoking the spirit of the distant past and the refinement of early court culture. The silks used for some robes continued to be imported from China, or closely modeled on Chinese examples, while Japanese weavers developed other imported weave structures, such as the weft-patterned silk called karaori ("Chinese weave"), into a sophisticated and distinctly Japanese artistic expression.

This exhibition highlights No robes from the 18th to early 20th centuries from the MFA's collection, some of which have never before been exhibited. It explores how "Chinese" designs and weaves have been employed, adapted, and combined with "native" Japanese motifs in No costume over the centuries, along with the dramatic and symbolically meaningful role such robes would play in the context of a No performance. Location: Compton GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Luxuries from Japan: Cultural Exchange&#x3C;br&#x3E;in the 17th and 18th Centuries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[9/30/2009 - 5/31/2010  More than 400 years ago, Japan forged strong trading partnerships with China and the West, and Japan’s lacquer and porcelains were among the most sought-after luxuries in the world. Although Japan largely closed itself to the West around 1640 to preserve domestic stability, Chinese and Dutch merchants were allowed to trade goods through a network that extended down the Asian coast to Islamic ports, around Africa, and then to Europe. 

The Japanese frequently created items specifically tailored to aristocratic European tastes for ornamentation in royal palaces and stately homes—exquisite blue-and-white and enameled porcelains, as well as sumptuous mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquers. However, Japan also imported luxuries. Practitioners of chanoyu (popularly known as the tea ceremony), for example, treasured ceramics and textiles from China, Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia. Presenting works from several private collections and from the Museum’s own holdings, “Luxuries from Japan” explores these dynamic intercultural exchanges that shaped the creation of Japanese works of art during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Location: Compton GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - The Secrets of Tomb 10A: &#x3C;br&#x3E;Egypt 2000 BC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[10/18/2009 - 5/16/2010

 Members' Preview Days  October 14-17

In a 1915 excavation, archaeologists from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition discovered the entrance to a tomb at the picturesque site of Deir el-Bersha in Egypt. Inside, the MFA team found, in jumbled array, the largest burial assemblage of the Middle Kingdom (2040-1640 BC) ever discovered. The tomb, designated Tomb 10A, was filled with the funerary equipment of a local governor by the name of Djehutynakht and his wife, also named Djehutynakht. Robbers had stolen the finest jewels but left everything else, including the severed (but nicely wrapped and painted) head of one of the Djehutynakhts. The tomb contained four beautifully painted coffins, one of which (detail, shown above), the famous "Bersha coffin" (the outer coffin of the governor), is arguably the finest painted coffin Egypt produced and a masterpiece of panel painting. The tomb also included Djehutynakht’s  walking sticks, pottery, canopic jar, and miniature wooden models that were made for the burial but reflect life on Djehutynakht’s estate, including some 58 model boats and nearly three dozen models of daily life such as individual shops for carpenters, weavers, brick-makers, bakers, and brewers. Of these, the best known is the exquisitely carved "Bersha procession" of a male priest leading female offering bearers.

The contents of Djehutynakht’s tomb were awarded to the MFA by the Egyptian government and transported to Boston in 1920. En route, they nearly met with disaster when the ship that was carrying them caught fire. Thankfully, the crew averted disaster, and the material suffered only slight water damage. Following their arrival in Boston, the Museum put the Deir el-Bersha coffin and procession on view in the galleries, but most of the other objects have never been displayed before. Many of the models, in fact, were never fully conserved prior to the preparations for this exhibition.

"The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC" introduces visitors to the concepts of the afterlife in the Middle Kingdom by taking a journey through the remarkable tomb of the Djehutynakhts and its many objects. It also offers an opportunity to gain insight into the fascinating era in which the couple lived by viewing sculptures, jewelry, furniture and other objects representing high officials of their time. Location: Gund GalleryClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Nov 7: Exhibition - Portrait of Life:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Children&#x2019;s Lives in Art</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11/7/2009 - 1/18/2010  Nagoya and Boston Exchange Artwork

This exhibition marks the sixth annual exchange between young people in Nagoya, Japan, and Boston. This unique project links young audiences and celebrates the international partnership between the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As of this year, nearly seven hundred children have participated in the exchange.

The result was a collaborative artwork. Students enrolled in the MFA’s Studio Art Class Program and Vacation Journeys through Art and children from a Nagoya summer art program that is part of the Aichi Children’s University all created shadow pictures. Inspired by the traveling exhibition "Worshipping Love: Mighty Aphrodite," the students in Japan explored the idea of "what/who I think is beautiful." In Boston, the children made a "Museum menagerie" drawing from the bountiful collection of animal images in the MFA’s collection. The resulting artwork was shown at the Nagoya/Boston Museum during the summer of 2009 before traveling to the MFA for this exhibition on view in the Courtyard Gallery.

Japanese translation Location: Education FoyerClick here for details(c) 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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