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“Millet and Rural France” opens at the MFA

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John Stephen Dwyer covers the new Millet exhibition at the MFA.

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A Museum Expansion Fact Sheet

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John Stephen Dwyer gives a run-down on local museum expansions.

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Notes from the MFA: A Mummy Head, Footed Canopic Jar, and Madonna

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Egyptian art always freaks me out a little. Although I certainly don’t believe aliens built the pyramids, it is so alien, and often so much more unsettling in its abstractions of human form than modern or contemporary art is supposed to be. Those wide dark eyes on the statues and paintings, the lines of sculpture [...]