Lectures at the MFA
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1 modules • 248 lessons • 311 hours of video
Lectures at the MFA
248 lessons
• 309.5 hours
Lectures at the MFA
248 lessons
• 309.5 hours
- Van Gogh and After01:26:22
- Van Gogh: Techniques and Methods01:27:04
- Art of Japan: The Many Worlds of Ukiyo-e Prints01:40:51
- Van Gogh: Paintings01:22:51
- Art History: What Makes a Caravaggio?59:56
- Hokusai: The End of an Era01:22:36
- Leonardo da Vinci: Paintings01:20:46
- Sargent's Watercolors: Making the Best of an Emergency01:25:47
- Renaissance Italy in the Time of Leonardo da Vinci01:24:42
- The Uncanny Sargent: The View from Conservation01:31:45
- Learning to See: Visual Fundamentals01:26:21
- Matisse: “For Me It’s Always New”01:28:37
- A History of Art in Color01:19:05
- Goya: The Most Spanish of Artists01:22:05
- My Dress Hangs There: Frida Kahlo as Fashion Icon01:14:18
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Between Degas and Picasso01:19:27
- In the Studio with Rembrandt and Hals01:26:39
- A New Look at Impressionism: Materials and Techniques of the French Impressionists01:23:51
- Cultural History of Late Tokugawa Japan01:18:28
- In Sargent's Footsteps: A Conversation01:02:47
- Cezanne: Art and Life01:03:52
- Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings01:05:48
- The Fruits of Prosperity and Global Trade: Dutch Decorative Arts of the 17th Century01:23:25
- Historicism to Art Nouveau: Klimt and Ornament01:16:06
- Frida Kahlo and Photography01:15:38
- The Dutch Golden Age: Contemporaries of Rembrandt and Vermeer58:09
- Mark Rothko: The Artist's Reality59:32
- Dutch Art: The Making of Class Distinctions01:22:20
- Critical Fortunes of Rembrandt and Vermeer01:22:19
- Discovering Ancient Nubia: Kings and Pyramids in the Sudan01:26:50
- A New Look at Impressionism: Millet and the Painters of Barbizon01:24:44
- Botticelli: The Curator's View01:23:18
- A New Look at Impressionism: Surface and Depth01:17:49
- An American in Paris: Cassatt, Degas, and the Impressionists in the 1870s01:26:54
- A New Look at Impressionism: Degas and the Medium of Pastel01:15:17
- Jamie Wyeth: Art and Inspiration01:05:11
- Frida Kahlo: Life and Works01:14:18
- Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection01:23:37
- William Merritt Chase and the Commonplace01:15:34
- The Art of Influence: A Propaganda Primer01:32:23
- The Legacy of Klimt and Schiele01:22:49
- Hans Hofmann: The Balance of Art and Nature01:14:01
- Michelangelo as Draftsman01:10:20
- Dress and Status in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer01:10:10
- Learning To See: It's All Relative01:26:15
- Ancient Nubia Now: Panel Discussion01:02:17
- A New Look at Impressionism: Five Faces of Impressionism55:40
- The World of Renaissance Women01:27:32
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler in London01:24:44
- From Mansion House to Coffee House: A Portrait of London Before 180001:23:02
- Chinese Art at the MFA, 960–1279: Discoveries and Transformations (Song Dynasty)57:42
- Ambassadors in the Studio: Matisse’s African Art Collection01:19:05
- A Collection of Collections: Impressionism at the MFA, Boston53:37
- Bad Monks, Temple Warriors: The Spectrum of Japanese Religious History01:20:43
- American Films of the 1950s and The Red Scare01:22:30
- Colonial Entanglements: Tombos and the Emergence of Nubian Pharaohs01:06:04
- John Singer Sargent: From the Royal Academy to the MFA01:17:07
- John James Audubon: Life-Sized and Larger than Life01:30:28
- Paris, Capital of the 19th Century01:19:41
- The Art of Thinking: Mary Cassatt, 1880-190001:26:46
- "Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness": Manet's Last Years01:12:24
- American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt and the American Land01:09:56
- Spanish Art Collections from the Monarchy to the Museo Nacional del Prado01:13:57
- Mary Cassatt's Formation: Forging a Path as a Woman in a Man's World01:27:16
- Homer and the Epics01:24:40
- David Hockney: A Yorkshire Lad in LA01:30:56
- Listening in Paris: French Music in the Late 19th Century01:26:05
- William Merritt Chase: Master of Pastel01:01:09
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Celebrity and Cabaret Culture in Paris01:19:07
- Mary Cassatt's Pastels: The Sense of Touch01:19:15
- Matisse’s Late Drawings and Cut-Outs01:14:21
- Sex Workers and the City of Light01:26:31
- Kahlo and Indigenismo in Mexico01:16:26
- Preserving Oversize Asian Paintings: What It Takes02:22:21
- Revolution and Reaction in Spain, 1808-98: From the Age of Goya to the End of Empire01:27:10
- Jewels of Ancient Nubia01:21:39
- Sorting out a World of Wonders: Science in the Dutch Golden Age01:25:29
- Mary Cassatt, Suffrage, and Modern Women01:26:40
- Gilded-Age Bostonians and Old Japan: An Ironic Love Affair52:54
- Bostonians in 19th-Century Japan: The Formation of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collection01:13:33
- Impressionist Lines: Drawing Modern Life01:24:25
- Turner, Forerunner59:09
- Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris01:04:43
- The Most Impressive Dragon at the MFA54:47
- “I wanted to leave a historical record...”: Henryk Ross and His Photographs of Lodz Ghetto01:20:41
- Hyman Bloom: Spirituality and Art02:03:07
- Daily Life in Ancient Athens: A View from the Agora53:31
- Gerrit Dou and the Art of Deception01:10:35
- "Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott" (Lecture)01:27:06
- Anne Carson: A Rustle of Catullus34:10
- Origin Stories: Native American Art and American Museums02:48:27
- Explore The Americas Wing: New Paintings, New Possibilities01:24:57
- Leonardo: Sculpture01:14:22
- Painting from the Past: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Charles Sheeler01:11:51
- Hokusai and His Students01:19:45
- An Interview with Takashi Murakami and Professor Nobuo Tsuji59:59
- A New Look at Impressionism: The MFA's Great Collectors01:09:15
- Sacred Space: Temple and Ritual in Hindu Tradition01:12:51
- London Art Scene in the Age of John Singer Sargent01:14:53
- Della Robbia: Creative Ingenuity in Florentine Renaissance Sculpture01:26:05
- The Dancing World of Toulouse Lautrec01:18:57
- Naoya Hatakeyama: Personal Landscapes01:00:20
- Malcolm Rogers on Sargent's Sibling Rivalry55:41
- Reconsidering Mid-Century American Fame: The Legacy of Jackson Pollock's Mural01:28:23
- Coming Across Boston Common at Dusk01:11:22
- "The Coat is The Picture": John Singer Sargent, Painting, and Fashion01:20:36
- Jamie Wyeth: Within and Without the Wyeth Tradition01:19:22
- Japanese Art: Tattoos, Prints, and Design01:04:32
- Casanova's Europe: Women in the Age of Enlightenment01:28:41
- Mike and Doug Starn: The No Mind Not Thinks No Things Things (Contemporary Art)59:07
- Rembrandt: Social Climber or Outcast?51:00
- Who is English? Colonial Subjects, Postcolonial Immigrants, and Literature01:19:00
- William Merritt Chase's Modern Women01:13:06
- Modern American Design; Modern Art Across the Americas01:21:50
- The Collectors: Dutch Golden Age01:11:44
- The Stars of Paris: Food and Drink during the Belle Époque01:13:09
- Hyman Bloom: Reconsidering Mid-Century American Fame01:08:14
- Celebrating Harriet Powers and Quilt Stories02:00:56
- Curating Guston01:20:00
- History of the MFA and Its Collections45:21
- LGBT Art at the MFA58:54
- Louis Comfort Tiffany: Parakeets Window01:13:31
- American Revolution: Paul Revere's Sons of Liberty Bowl: An American Icon01:16:55
- Conserving Della Robbia Sculpture: Clay, Color, and Shine01:26:05
- Empires Meet: Mexico in the Sixteenth Century01:15:26
- Dress in the Paintings of William Merritt Chase01:06:52
- Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals: An Image for a Public Place01:03:36
- Subodh Gupta: Coexistence, Ritual, and Growth (Contemporary Art)57:54
- Looking at Hokusai’s Ghosts01:12:02
- Van Gogh in Provence53:54
- Paris in Ruins with Sebastian Smee01:03:52
- Gardens Around the World: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Public Landscape01:14:00
- Cyrus Dallin's "Appeal to the Great Spirit" Reexamined01:33:57
- History, Cuisine, and National Leftovers in Spain01:24:39
- Frances Stark: UH-OH (Contemporary Art)52:02
- Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu47:28
- Lee Mingwei: The Trust of Strangers (Contemporary Art)01:00:02
- Revolution and Upheaval in Frida Kahlo's Mexico01:21:37
- Lecture: Cutie and the Boxer (Ushio and Noriko Shinohara)01:01:48
- Michaelina Wautier: The Woman Who Painted ‘The Five Senses’54:19
- Reimagining Early Greek Art01:10:28
- Where Dutch Art and Scientific Innovation Meet01:02:34
- Varieties of Postmodernism01:22:33
- Madame X: Fashion and Self-fashioning in John Singer Sargent's Paris01:15:01
- The Benaki Museum and the Greek Narrative: The Role of Culture in Crisis01:13:31
- Rarities of These Lands: Encounters with the Exotic in the Dutch Republic01:04:15
- "It" Women and John Singer Sargent's Self- Fashioning01:12:17
- A Republic of Letters: Writing, Virtue, and the Forging of an American Nation01:15:36
- The Future of Fashion: See the Unseen43:41
- Celebrating Maria Lassnig on Film01:03:20
- Reimagining a Hub for Netherlandish Art01:06:18
- Stories Artists Tell: Art and the Spirit01:16:00
- Cape Cod Architecture: Kindred Spirits01:25:01
- Paris's First Film Stars01:24:29
- Sebastian Smee in Conversation with Matthew Teitelbaum52:50
- “It” Women and John Singer Sargent’s Self-Fashioning01:12:17
- Hokusai and Contemporary Art: Pop Art, Superflat, and Beyond01:14:45
- An Evening with William Kentridge and Homi Bhabha01:13:37
- Vincent Valdez: In Conversation01:06:38
- Remedios Varo and Norval Morrisseau, American Artists01:08:11
- Women in Renaissance Italy: Generations of Strong Women01:14:43
- Art in the Age of Napoleon: Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment01:13:46
- The Priest, The Prince, and The Pasha: The True Story Behind the Boston Green Head01:28:25
- Photography at the MFA: The Lane Collection01:18:38
- Musa Mayer: In Conversation53:18
- Holland Cotter: Babysat by the Buddha47:06
- Peace, Love and Fringe: Hippie Chic01:06:38
- Discovering Sculptor Henry Moore51:30
- The Art of Cape Cod01:30:59
- Showdown: The Conservator's View01:11:15
- Spain in the 20th Century01:13:23
- Women in Renaissance Italy: The Art of Family Life49:53
- Why Frank Bowling Now?58:56
- Women in Renaissance Italy: Community and Culture in Florentine Convents01:22:02
- Photography at the MFA: Collection Beginnings01:15:09
- John Wilson: A Special Way of Looking at the World01:23:12
- American Revolution: Thomas Sully and The Passage of the Delaware01:19:39
- Protest and Performance in Contemporary American Art01:20:37
- Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs01:05:56
- Black Power in Print: Dana Chandler in Boston01:00:06
- 20th-Century Britain: The View from Downton Abbey01:06:58
- The Art of John Wilson: Impact56:07
- Visions of the Middle East: Photographs from 1839 to Today01:24:31
- From Getting the Picture to Life Magazine’s Impact01:23:43
- Up Close and Personal with the MFA’s Van Gogh Portraits01:16:39
- Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Modernism at Mid-Century01:04:47
- Van Gogh: “How did he make those colors?”01:13:35
- Van Gogh, the Roulin Family, and Portraiture01:14:03
- The Influence of Historical Dutch Art on Van Gogh01:21:12
- She Persisted: Crafted by Women01:24:08
- Fashioned by Sargent: Inspired Beauty through Dress58:12
- London: Here and Now01:31:15
- Catherine Opie01:12:37
- Van Gogh and The "Mad Genius" Debate01:17:14
- New Discourses on Folk and Self-Taught Art01:21:03
- Photography for Social Change01:22:47
- American Revolution: Teapots, Sugar Boxes, and Chamber Pots: What Objects Tell Us About History01:18:12
- Van Gogh: Expressionist Portraiture and Self-Portraiture01:23:13
- God Save the Queen! The Monarchy in Modern Time01:06:04
- Director's Choice: 20 Years of Acquisitions47:49
- Flower Painting, Flower Madness, and Rachel Ruysch01:01:06
- Crafted: Objects in Flux01:26:23
- Voices of the Qur'an01:12:50
- I Don't Have To Be What You Want Me To Be: Muhammad Ali and the politics of the 60s and 70s01:19:47
- Italy’s First Woman of Letters: Vittoria Colonna01:01:40
- Art for Everyone: Print Culture and the Floating World01:27:46
- Women in Renaissance Italy: Seeking Women's Stories in the MFA's Collections01:23:03
- What They Did: Coomaraswamy's Female Collaborators59:12
- Edo and Tokyo: Built, Inhabited, and Represented01:17:48
- Celebrating the Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston01:51:57
- Henry Moore: Humanity of Urban Space in Postwar United States01:15:29
- Picture Book Power: Current Perspectives on Contemporary Children’s Literature01:25:19
- Fashioning Identities01:18:37
- Japanese Lacquerware Culture and the Appeal of Urushi01:09:11
- Passionately Unconventional: Music by Women in Renaissance Italy01:20:42
- Between Rembrandt and Van Gogh: 19th-Century Dutch Artists01:22:52
- Martin Puryear and Craft01:06:04
- Contemporary Art: Megacities Asia01:22:19
- Asserting Power Through Art: Shōgun and Emperor59:01
- A Taste of Britain: From Post-Colonial Cuisine to Molecular Gastronomy01:24:56
- Alan Michelson on 'The Knowledge Keepers'49:50
- Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas01:21:02
- Loïs Mailou Jones’s Mastery of the “Black Atlantic”01:20:38
- Music at the Intersection of the Arts in 19th-Century France01:13:34
- The Napoleonic Empire and its Discontents01:22:19
- Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: A Portrait01:20:01
- Jewelry and Fashion at Play01:05:06
- Multiple Histories in Photography: People, Places, and Things01:14:32
- The Poetry of Cape Cod01:22:00
- Tokyo Never at Rest: Japanese Art Responds to Disasters in the 20th and 21st centuries01:22:04
- Living: A House, A Garden, An Aquarium, and More01:10:50
- Color, Light, Place: Rana Begum58:54
- John Wilson and Boston's Black Arts Community01:24:55
- Winslow Homer at the Shore01:21:06
- Winslow Homer as Printmaker01:27:16
- Winslow Homer and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston01:20:32
- Multiple Histories in Photography: In the Service of Art, Science, Fame and Fashion51:11
- A Queer Eye on Dressing Up53:58
- Rachel Ruysch: What Early Modern Women Knew01:04:42
- Worlds within Worlds: Portraying Nature as Microcosms01:23:05
- Martin Puryear’s Liberties59:35
- Winslow Homer’s Boston, Framed by Pointed Firs01:23:03
- All That Glitters Isn't Gold: Dressing Up "Dress Up"01:14:58
- A Bounty for the Senses: The Flavors, Tastes, and Scents of Provence01:09:30
- Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen01:13:39
- María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Her ‘History of a People Who Were Not Heroes’01:09:55
- SMFA at Tufts Leo and Betty Beckwith Lecture: American Artist01:04:57
- Rachel Ruysch: The Making of an Exhibition01:14:54
