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<title> A League Of His Own </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hall of Famer Honus Wagner is famous for more than his batting stats. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[ A little piebald sea duck fetches $120,000 at auction. A lot, but no where near the record of $856,000. ]]></description>
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<title> Beatrix&#x27;s Brilliant Bunnies </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ An illustration from the creator of Peter Rabbit sells for nearly $600,000 in London. ]]></description>
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<title>Aug 28: Guided Tours - Introduction to Museum Collections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 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(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Gallery Activities - Truth in Beauty: Symbolism of Art Nouveau Jewelry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 12:00 PMIn this curatorial gallery talk led by Meghan Melvin learn about the Art Nouveau movement in the special exhibition "Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry."  Examine the exquisite craftsmanship and discover the potent themes of fin-de-siecle masterworks by artists such as Rene Lalique and Lucien Gaillard. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Guided Tours - Art of Asia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Guided Tours - Art of Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:30 AM - 12:30 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. 
 Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Europe Language: English(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Guided Tours - Three Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[12:00 PM - 12:30 PMHalf-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature an in-depth look at three masterpieces. 

Free with Museum admission. Location: Sharf Visitor CenterClick here for details(c) 2008 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 from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Film - As Tears Go By</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2:00 PM As Tears Go By (Wong gok ka moon) by Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong, 1988, 94 min.). As gritty as any 1980s Hong Kong gangster film, As Tears Go By heralds one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in international cinema. Wong Kar-wai’s visually tough and romantic debut feature deftly smuggles the director’s now celebrated genius into an incendiary street opera of the John Woo mold. Already stretched to breaking in a loyalty tug-of-war among triad bosses and his loose cannon partner, Wah (Andy Lau of Fulltime Killer and Days of Being Wild) finds himself saddled with his beautiful, ailing cousin, Ngor. As an escalating test of wills explodes into bloodshed, and a mob turncoat instigates a ruthless police crackdown, Wah’s growing fascination with Ngor becomes his last chance for escape from a violent past and a dubious future. Balancing realism with brazen romanticism, As Tears Go By offers a tantalizing glimpse into the nascent brilliance of the most influential filmmaking talent of the last twenty years. 

 Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10.Click here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[2:00 PM - 3:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of the Ancient Language: English(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[2:00 PM - 3:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of the Ancient Language: English(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Guided Tours - Introduction to Museum Collections</title>
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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) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Film - Black Peter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4:15 PM Black Peter (Cern&yacute; Petr) (Czechoslovakia, 1964, 85 min.). An empathetic look at the alienation of Czech youth, Forman’s first fictional feature depicts the miserable title character at his grocery store job. In his off-hours, he clashes with his old-fashioned father and pines for a classmate. Employing nonprofessional actors, improvisation, and v&eacute;rit&eacute; camerawork, as well as a gently ironic, antiauthoritarian tone, the film exhibits the qualities that would place Forman at the forefront of the Czech New Wave and anticipates his future success on the 1970s Hollywood auteur scene. 

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Click here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Film - Taking Off</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6:00 PM Taking Off (1971, 93 min.). In this dark, affectionate, and rarely seen satire, after a husband and wife embark on a wild-goose chase to find their runaway daughter, they wind up experimenting with the wild habits of a young counterculture. In his first film after immigrating to the US in the wake of the Soviet crackdown, Forman offers a fresh, idiosyncratic perspective on his adopted country. Ike and Tina Turner contribute an electrifying performance. 
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<description><![CDATA[6:15 PM - 7:15 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(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Film - Goya&#x2019;s Ghosts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[7:45 PM Goya’s Ghosts (Spain/US, 2007, 117 min.). Starring Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsg&aring;rd, and Natalie Portman, Forman’s most recent historical drama intertwines the Spanish Inquisition, the rise of Napoleon, and the life of Goya, featuring a heady mix of real and invented characters and exquisitely detailed, Goya-inspired set pieces. Brother Lorenzo (Bardem)—a fervent believer in Inquisitional extremes—is ascending, and descending, the rungs of society. Goya (Skarsg&aring;rd) is the bystander through whose eyes we see Spain’s tumultuous upheaval. In Spanish with English subtitles. 
Official website for Goya’s Ghosts

 Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10.Click here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - RSVP: Jim Lambie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11/10/2007 - 12/31/2008  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) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Zhang Daqian:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Painter, Collector, Forger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[12/15/2007 - 9/14/2008  Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) casts a long shadow over the modern history of Chinese painting. As a painter, he was known for his singular ability to mix traditional techniques and styles with contemporary ideas and currents. As a collector, he accumulated important examples from all genres of Chinese painting and left behind copious seals and inscriptions. As a forger, Zhang so mastered the art of deception that his fakes were purchased unwittingly by nearly every major art museum in the United States—the MFA included. Indeed, the first question asked by experts when a work is considered suspect is: “Could this be by Zhang Daqian?” 

This exhibition focuses on all three facets of Zhang’s career and features a rich selection of works from the MFA alongside loans from private collections. Of particular interest is a master forgery acquired by the Museum in 1957 as an authentic work of the tenth century. The painting, which was allegedly a landscape by the Five Dynasties period master Guan Tong, is one of Zhang’s most ambitious forgeries and serves to illustrate both his skill and his audacity. Location: Carpenter GalleryClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Kufic Korans:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Calligraphy in the World of Islam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2/2/2008 - 11/2/2008  

"Kufic Korans," on display in the Islamic Corridor, features a broad range of visual cultures, from Egypt to Iran, united by an appreciation for beautiful Arabic text. Calligraphy serves many purposes in Islamic art, from conveying meaning to acting as decoration, and its importance began in the early days of Islam, when Muslims believe that God first revealed the Koran to Muhammad. The Koran is the holy text and foundation of Islam, and skilled calligraphers throughout centuries have strived to make the text itself beautiful. 

All the objects in this exhibition feature an angular style of Arabic calligraphy dubbed Kufic, considered to have originated from Kufa, a city in modern Iraq. Today the term “Kufic” is used by calligraphers and scholars alike to describe a wide range of angular Arabic script. Early Kufic Koran manuscripts, enhanced by gold and silver illumination, were commissioned by powerful Muslim rulers and large mosques. This angular and horizontal style also lent itself well to architectural inscriptions on monuments. Later, the angular style of script would be revived by calligraphers and artisans looking back to the austerity of the past and exploring Kufic’s potential to become more ornamental and abstract. Even in the 21st century, international corporations and local businesses in the Islamic world often utilize Kufic for their designs.

 Location: Islamic CorridorClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Rockwell and the Shinjin:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4/8/2008 - 9/16/2008  In honor of the second Red Sox World Series Championship in four seasons and opening day in Japan and Boston, the MFA proudly presents "Rockwell and the Shinjin: Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox." The exhibition, on view in the Upper Rotunda, features The Rookie by beloved American artist Norman Rockwell. This popular painting, briefly on loan to the Museum, depicts the Red Sox locker room in 1957. The image appeared that year on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 

Two of the Red Sox 2007 rookies, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima, hail from Japan, where the season opened this year. These shinjin ("rookie" in their native language) were among the first Japanese players to join the team. To complement the painting and to pay tribute to the history of baseball in Japan and the United States, a special selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works on paper and memorabilia from both countries are on display. Among the highlights are early twentieth-century Japanese postcards, a drawing by Boston artist William Morris Hunt, and items from the 2004 and 2007 World Series Championships.


Above: Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room), 1957. Oil on canvas. Anonymous loan. © 1957 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved. www.curtispublishing.com. Image appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 2, 1957.
Norman Rockwell rights of publicity licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing, Niles, IL. Location: Upper RotundaClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Great Company:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Portraits by European Masters</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 1/4/2009  At the heart of the second floor of the Evans Wing, at the top of the great staircase that opens from the new State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, enjoy a special installation of some of the MFA's greatest European portraits. Paintings and sculpture span the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including canvases by Moroni and Gainsborough, by Degas and van Gogh, and by Matisse and Beckmann—as well as marble busts by Canova and Thorvaldsen. Sitters, some unknown, include the poet Lord Byron, Degas's younger sister, and van Gogh's great friend Augustine Roulin. Location: Upper HemicycleClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Preserving History, Making History:&#x3C;br&#x3E;The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 9/22/2009  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) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Winslow Homer:&#x3C;br&#x3E;American Scenes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 1/4/2009  Selections from the Museum's rich collection of works by Winslow Homer (1836–1910) are on view in the Lee Gallery, just inside the newly opened State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance. From a childhood drawing through his late seascapes in oil, the exhibition includes designs for illustrations from popular periodicals like Harper’s Weekly, paintings, watercolors, and rarely seen etchings. Among the themes featured are images from the Civil War, paintings of childhood and leisure from the 1870s, and seascapes from the 1880s until just before Homer’s death in 1910. "Winslow Homer: American Scenes" offers an extraordinary glimpse at the artist’s working method in a variety of media and for a variety of audiences throughout his career. Location: Lee GalleryClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Twentieth-Century Modernism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/30/2008 - 10/1/2008  This select installation in the Lower Rotunda features masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism from the Lane Collection, including the lyrical Dancing Willows by Arthur G. Dove, shown above. Also on view are works by Stuart Davis, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Location: Lower RotundaClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Aug 28: Exhibition - Imperishable Beauty:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Art Nouveau Jewelry</title>
<link>http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&#x26;subkey=5707</link>
<description><![CDATA[7/23/2008 - 11/9/2008   
"Don't worry if jewelry is not your thing. The Museum of Fine Arts' small but dazzling 'Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry' is a show you should see regardless. Anyone who responds to technical virtuosity of the highest order, anyone turned on by seeing an aesthetic sensibility taken right to the limit, and anyone even remotely susceptible to color is bound to fall under its spell." —Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe

This exhibition includes about 120 works by the leading designers and fabricators of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Art Nouveau jewelry. Although many of these artists acquired their skills in traditional, high-style jewelry houses, they found inspiration in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the philosophy of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the paintings and poetry of the symbolists, and the arts of Japan. For motifs, they looked to the flora (orchids, lilies) and fauna (dragonflies, butterflies) of the natural world and the sensuality of the female form. This new aesthetic was, in large measure, a reaction against nineteenth century historicism, industrialization, and the “tyranny of the diamond,” and these Art Nouveau artists chose to interpret nature rather than imitate it.

René Lalique (1860–1945) was the most renowned Art Nouveau artist, whose one-of-a-kind pieces were often large and made of unusual and inexpensive materials such as horn, enamel, and glass. Art Nouveau designers/jewelers also employed a pastel color palette much like the Impressionists. Color was, for the most part, achieved through the use of enamel, and plique à jour (open to light) enameling added a delicacy and level of technical sophistication not previously seen in jewelry. In addition to works by Lalique, jewelry by Georges Fouquet (1862–1957), Eugène Feuillâtre (1870–1916), and Lucien Gaillard (1861–1933) is shown, as are paintings, sculpture, prints, posters, textiles, and decorative arts from the period. 

Read the full Boston Globe review and see jewelry from the exhibition Location: Torf GalleryClick here for details(c) 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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